Tag: physics

  • Nominalism, Platonic Ideals and AGI

    FYI. This post recaps my reply to a twitter post by Gwern on Transhumanism. It begins with Gwern remarking: “Platonism may be a useful trick for giving yourself the motivation to push on in math & exploit intuitions, but is not true in any pragmatic sense…” I reply. Neil Stephenson wrote a scifi novel “Anathem”…