dan on Nostr: this wasn’t what happened. In practice, human language and cognition have proven to ...
this wasn’t what happened. In practice, human language and cognition have proven to be a mess of fuzzy boundaries, inconsistencies, social contexts, and recursive interpersonal expectation. There is nothing “rational” at the foundations of thought—only an inscrutable tangle of axioms which dissolve in isolation and upon observation.
Our attempts to isolate this and reproduce it have resulted in inconsistent stochastic parrot, reflecting the chaotic nature of that very foundation. 2/2
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