Austin Miller
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Austin Miller
@n-aubol.bsky.social
· Jul 17
Gödelian Constraint on Epistemic Freedom (GCEF): A Topological Theory of Embedded Cognition and Epistemic Singularities
This preprint proposes the Gödelian Constraint on Epistemic Freedom (GCEF), a unifying theoretical framework for understanding why certain problems across mathematics, cognition, physics, and artifici...
zenodo.org
“The Gödelian Constraint on Epistemic Freedom (GCEF)”
A topological theory of embedded cognition, simulation occlusion, and unsolvable problems.
Read the paper → zenodo.org/record/15875...
#epistemology #cognition #theoreticalCS #AIalignment #philosophy #complexity #simulation #embeddedagency
A topological theory of embedded cognition, simulation occlusion, and unsolvable problems.
Read the paper → zenodo.org/record/15875...
#epistemology #cognition #theoreticalCS #AIalignment #philosophy #complexity #simulation #embeddedagency
Ethics is a language game.
August 6, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Ethics is a language game.
Just because nothing matters ontologically doesn't mean nothing matters inside my little holographic bubble.
#nihilism #physics #epistemology
#nihilism #physics #epistemology
August 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just because nothing matters ontologically doesn't mean nothing matters inside my little holographic bubble.
#nihilism #physics #epistemology
#nihilism #physics #epistemology
Humans are the coalesced convection of physical microstates; we are the children of entropy.
#entropy #thermodynamics #philosophy #emergence #complexsystems #human #evolution #physics
#entropy #thermodynamics #philosophy #emergence #complexsystems #human #evolution #physics
July 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Humans are the coalesced convection of physical microstates; we are the children of entropy.
#entropy #thermodynamics #philosophy #emergence #complexsystems #human #evolution #physics
#entropy #thermodynamics #philosophy #emergence #complexsystems #human #evolution #physics
Am I a constraint realist dreaming that he is an empiricist or am I an empiricist dreaming that he is a constraint realist?
#zhuangzi #epistemology #hofstadter #philosophyofscience #coherencehallucination
#zhuangzi #epistemology #hofstadter #philosophyofscience #coherencehallucination
July 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Am I a constraint realist dreaming that he is an empiricist or am I an empiricist dreaming that he is a constraint realist?
#zhuangzi #epistemology #hofstadter #philosophyofscience #coherencehallucination
#zhuangzi #epistemology #hofstadter #philosophyofscience #coherencehallucination
The human equivalent of a Gödel sentence isn’t a Gödel sentence—it’s the quantum interpretation crisis. It's the attempt to unify physics while pretending GR and QM correspond.
#epistemology #physics #godel #logic #penrose #math #philosophyofscience #foundations #metamathematics
#epistemology #physics #godel #logic #penrose #math #philosophyofscience #foundations #metamathematics
July 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The human equivalent of a Gödel sentence isn’t a Gödel sentence—it’s the quantum interpretation crisis. It's the attempt to unify physics while pretending GR and QM correspond.
#epistemology #physics #godel #logic #penrose #math #philosophyofscience #foundations #metamathematics
#epistemology #physics #godel #logic #penrose #math #philosophyofscience #foundations #metamathematics
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Uploaded v1.2 introducing new epistemological framework: constraint realism
#ConstraintRealism #epistemology #cognition #theoreticalCS #AIalignment #philosophy #complexity #simulation #embeddedagency
Uploaded v1.2 introducing new epistemological framework: constraint realism
#ConstraintRealism #epistemology #cognition #theoreticalCS #AIalignment #philosophy #complexity #simulation #embeddedagency
Gödelian Constraint on Epistemic Freedom (GCEF): Constraint Realism and the Topology of Epistemic Limits
This preprint introduces the Gödelian Constraint on Epistemic Freedom (GCEF), a unifying metatheory explaining why embedded agents cannot resolve certain classes of problems across mathematics, physic...
zenodo.org
July 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Uploaded v1.2 introducing new epistemological framework: constraint realism
#ConstraintRealism #epistemology #cognition #theoreticalCS #AIalignment #philosophy #complexity #simulation #embeddedagency
Uploaded v1.2 introducing new epistemological framework: constraint realism
#ConstraintRealism #epistemology #cognition #theoreticalCS #AIalignment #philosophy #complexity #simulation #embeddedagency
austinmiller1415.substack.com/p/transcende...
#ConstraintRealism #Philosophy #Entropy #Transcendence #Physics #Epistemology #QuantumMechanics #GeneralRelativity #PhilosophyOfScience
#ConstraintRealism #Philosophy #Entropy #Transcendence #Physics #Epistemology #QuantumMechanics #GeneralRelativity #PhilosophyOfScience
Transcendence Is Entropy in Drag
Why Physics Won’t Ever Be Unified, and What That Tells Us About Knowing
austinmiller1415.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The output of empiricism is local coherence. You’re corresponding with a fucking condom.
July 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The output of empiricism is local coherence. You’re corresponding with a fucking condom.
Transcendence is entropy in drag
July 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Transcendence is entropy in drag
austinmiller1415.substack.com/p/why-cant-p...
#Epistemology #QuantumMechanics #Superdeterminism #Gödel #EmbeddedAgency #SimulationTheory #LimitsOfKnowledge #PhysicsPhilosophy #FreeWill #Empiricism #QMInterpretationCrisis #CognitiveScience
#Epistemology #QuantumMechanics #Superdeterminism #Gödel #EmbeddedAgency #SimulationTheory #LimitsOfKnowledge #PhysicsPhilosophy #FreeWill #Empiricism #QMInterpretationCrisis #CognitiveScience
Why can't physics decide if the universe is deterministic?
In search of a better epistemology than empiricism.
austinmiller1415.substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
“The Gödelian Constraint on Epistemic Freedom (GCEF)”
A topological theory of embedded cognition, simulation occlusion, and unsolvable problems.
Read the paper → zenodo.org/record/15875...
#epistemology #cognition #theoreticalCS #AIalignment #philosophy #complexity #simulation #embeddedagency
A topological theory of embedded cognition, simulation occlusion, and unsolvable problems.
Read the paper → zenodo.org/record/15875...
#epistemology #cognition #theoreticalCS #AIalignment #philosophy #complexity #simulation #embeddedagency
Gödelian Constraint on Epistemic Freedom (GCEF): A Topological Theory of Embedded Cognition and Epistemic Singularities
This preprint proposes the Gödelian Constraint on Epistemic Freedom (GCEF), a unifying theoretical framework for understanding why certain problems across mathematics, cognition, physics, and artifici...
zenodo.org
July 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
“The Gödelian Constraint on Epistemic Freedom (GCEF)”
A topological theory of embedded cognition, simulation occlusion, and unsolvable problems.
Read the paper → zenodo.org/record/15875...
#epistemology #cognition #theoreticalCS #AIalignment #philosophy #complexity #simulation #embeddedagency
A topological theory of embedded cognition, simulation occlusion, and unsolvable problems.
Read the paper → zenodo.org/record/15875...
#epistemology #cognition #theoreticalCS #AIalignment #philosophy #complexity #simulation #embeddedagency
@meaningness
I’ve written a preprint that I think might resonate with your work on Meaningness—on epistemic constraint and local coherence simulation across domains.
zenodo.org/records/1587...
I’ve written a preprint that I think might resonate with your work on Meaningness—on epistemic constraint and local coherence simulation across domains.
zenodo.org/records/1587...
Gödelian Constraint on Epistemic Freedom (GCEF): A Topological Theory of Embedded Cognition and Epistemic Singularities
This preprint proposes the Gödelian Constraint on Epistemic Freedom (GCEF), a unifying theoretical framework for understanding why certain problems across mathematics, cognition, physics, and artifici...
zenodo.org
July 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@meaningness
I’ve written a preprint that I think might resonate with your work on Meaningness—on epistemic constraint and local coherence simulation across domains.
zenodo.org/records/1587...
I’ve written a preprint that I think might resonate with your work on Meaningness—on epistemic constraint and local coherence simulation across domains.
zenodo.org/records/1587...
It takes a civilization to raise an AI.
June 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
It takes a civilization to raise an AI.
My generation’s ChatGPT was a magic eight ball.
June 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My generation’s ChatGPT was a magic eight ball.
Selection is a Matroshka doll of selection systems within selection systems. Even the selection systems are being selected.
June 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Selection is a Matroshka doll of selection systems within selection systems. Even the selection systems are being selected.
Fitness can’t be a value itself because it would be recursive in a way that prevents fitness.
June 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Fitness can’t be a value itself because it would be recursive in a way that prevents fitness.
Architecture is content in an architecture tour. Yet it is designed not to be the focal point and to be a container. Consider then whether it's possible to "focus" on architecture ever. Are we meant to design it out of our peripheral vision?
June 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Architecture is content in an architecture tour. Yet it is designed not to be the focal point and to be a container. Consider then whether it's possible to "focus" on architecture ever. Are we meant to design it out of our peripheral vision?
The enlightenment didn't invent empiricism, rather empiricism was decriminalized and then institutionalized.
May 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The enlightenment didn't invent empiricism, rather empiricism was decriminalized and then institutionalized.
Animism isn’t a primitive belief system—it’s a heuristic engine for surviving in environments where optimal reasoning is computationally intractable.
May 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Animism isn’t a primitive belief system—it’s a heuristic engine for surviving in environments where optimal reasoning is computationally intractable.
Philosophers create the means by which people can govern effectively in ignorance of the moral dangers of presuming to govern at all.
May 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Philosophers create the means by which people can govern effectively in ignorance of the moral dangers of presuming to govern at all.
If utilitarianism is true, then it must also account for the immense utility of people rejecting utilitarianism.
May 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
If utilitarianism is true, then it must also account for the immense utility of people rejecting utilitarianism.
The real innovation of modern propaganda is not that it manufactures consent—it’s that it scales it.
May 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The real innovation of modern propaganda is not that it manufactures consent—it’s that it scales it.
The strange thing about being a philosopher, I feel, is that one must be biased against existing taxonomies while, at the same time and in something of a breathless way, having the naive courage to propose a new taxonomy.
May 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
The strange thing about being a philosopher, I feel, is that one must be biased against existing taxonomies while, at the same time and in something of a breathless way, having the naive courage to propose a new taxonomy.
Major premise: Torturing children may produce high utility adults.
Minor premise: Modern school feels like torture for many kids
Conclusion: Maybe modern schooling is unwittingly designed to torture kids because it is optimizing for high utility adults.
Minor premise: Modern school feels like torture for many kids
Conclusion: Maybe modern schooling is unwittingly designed to torture kids because it is optimizing for high utility adults.
April 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Major premise: Torturing children may produce high utility adults.
Minor premise: Modern school feels like torture for many kids
Conclusion: Maybe modern schooling is unwittingly designed to torture kids because it is optimizing for high utility adults.
Minor premise: Modern school feels like torture for many kids
Conclusion: Maybe modern schooling is unwittingly designed to torture kids because it is optimizing for high utility adults.
When the simulation's fidelity tends to infinity, certainly it's more "a is a" than the ship of theseus.
April 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
When the simulation's fidelity tends to infinity, certainly it's more "a is a" than the ship of theseus.