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Agree on all points. It's worth asking: who maintains the academic incentive structures? If the social structures are harming science (e.g., promoting fraud), why do the social str…

What are computer-aided engineering companies actually doing with AI/ML technologies to advance their software capabilities? Which companies? What are the reputable industry public…

I see. For you, "people on the ground" includes a grand child's comment. In my experience, "people on the ground" has implied "don't try to do anything on your own," which dissuade…

I think calling problem articulation "just sophistry" is overly reductionist. People who make the effort to articulate the problems (e.g., some Chronicle of Higher Ed writers) offe…

This article and most of the comments ignore the social power dynamics and status quo institutional structures of academic science (Science 2): university administrators, power-bro…

Julius Smith's recent book on physical modeling: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/

Agreed. Drummer and programmer here. I consider electronic drums to be a different instrument from acoustic drums---especially cymbals---with somewhat comparable musical functions.…

People wish to feel safe. One path to safety is controlling or managing the environment. Lack of sufficient control produces anxiety. But control is only possible if the environmen…

For example, the Euler equations model compressible flow with discontinuities (shocks in the flow field variables) and rarefaction waves. These theories are accepted and used routi…

"sufficiently large machine" ... It's a thought experiment. Leibniz didn't have a computer, but he still imagined it.

Some differential equations that model physics admit singularities and multiple solutions. Therefore, functions are not the most general way of describing relations. Functions are …

The universal approximation theorem is set in a precise mathematical context; I encourage you to limit its applicability to that context despite the marketing label "universal" (wh…

Agreed. If someone believes the world is purely mechanistic, then it follows that a sufficiently large computing machine can model the world---like Leibniz's Ratiocinator. The into…

I'm with you. Interpreting a problem as a problem requires a human (1) to recognize the problem and (2) to convince other humans that it's a problem worth solving. Both involve val…

Sorry I triggered you.

It seems the humans pursuing AGI lack sufficient natural intelligence. I'm sad that humans with such narrow and misguided perspectives have so much power, money, and influence. I w…

A better name for "laws" is "models."

Where do you go to meet real humans and have social interaction?

This story is also told in Nicholas Carr's bestseller 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains' https://www.nicholascarr.com/?page_id=16

Some very nice related works that dispel widespread math myths: (1) What Is Mathematics, Really? Hersh, 1997. https://books.google.com/books/about/What_is_Mathematics_Rea... (2) Wh…