William of Hammock
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William of Hammock
@wilohl.bsky.social
Writer, Philosopher (BA),
MSHR, MBA, failed pragmatist, "lifelong learner."

Midlife Crisis Ongoing -> PhD Forestalling -> Meanwhile Substonking

https://substack.com/@williamofhammock
Or call them skypes. Also not in use.
December 7, 2024 at 3:26 PM
To what degree, might I ask, do you hold "uncertainty" itself in tension between Bayesian ideals and heuristics?
November 15, 2024 at 12:43 PM
I feel like all they would learn is that the left and right hemispheres get on each other's nerves, except there are no nerves. All the embodied metaphors fall apart, and the aliens learn absolutely nothing.
November 13, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Another angle is to qualify whether it is presumed that Sen's conception of "Positional Objectivity" is formally synthesizeable to Nagel's "View from nowhere" Objectivity. And if not, what could be a reasonable yet formalizable treatment of the disconnect?
November 13, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Personally, I hold moderate objection to the truth value available wherever reasoning under uncertainty presumes that "uncertainty" to be proportional to "100% certainty" despite an indifferentiable sample space, echoing Gigerenzer.
November 13, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Is there a good summary of the points of contention here? And are these points exclusive to Bayesian framing or also applicable to Frequentist?
November 13, 2024 at 8:13 PM
He seems more into Einstein than Bohr!
October 23, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Thereby proving inflation was the real villain.

Only one mystery remains. Is Janus' cat dead, alive and/or The Cat Beyond Time and Space?
October 19, 2024 at 11:58 AM
I must answer "Nu"
October 19, 2024 at 1:11 AM
I have been having extensive conversations with Claude3 Opus, and while I am clearly leading him by the nose, what he is able to pick up on, extrapolate, and occasionally infer is pretty nuts.

I might share a few samples on bsky soon, but the range and depth is just wild.
March 6, 2024 at 11:12 PM
In reference to the book, obviously. I have less than wiki-level knowledge of his research more generally as I have just recently been introduced to him myself.
March 4, 2024 at 11:11 PM
I am currently working my way through some of the more "technical details" (not that technical) to be sure I understand the tradeoffs.

To my first approximation confirmation biases, it's fantastic! 🤓
March 4, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Are you familiar with Igor Douven's The Art of Abduction, and if so, is this question along a similar vector?
March 4, 2024 at 10:47 PM