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At risk of really devolving this thread, I’m pretty sure that bodybuilders generally agree that bread is counter-productive in the pursuit of definition :)
Great, now we gotta figure out what a "bodybuilder" is!
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Not necessarily, since models that predict correctly can still be wrong. Science is figuring out the real mechanism
I disagree with this definition. We have yet to produce a perfect model of the world (aka, a theory of everything). All models produced by "science" thus far are "wrong", at least on some level (ex. Newton's model doesn't cover relativity). I think "Creating models with predictive power is also a precise definition of science." is a fair description.
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One way to make this clear to yourself is to observe how much more difficult it is to "define bread" than it is to answer "is this bread?"
This thought experiment ends with Diogenes running into the Academy and tossing a Guinness in my face. ;)
I think this is why it's hard sometimes to argue in support of something you believe, even if you're right. At one point, all of the relevant facts and figures were loaded into your working memory, and with that information you arrived at a conclusion. Your brain, however, no longer needs those facts and figures; you've gotten what you needed from them, and they can be kicked out of working memory. What you store the…
The solution I use is to take notes. I don't think the conversation on the social media is based around data. Most data points that people have are inaccurate (if not false), taken out of context, or used with an incorrect mental model. Once someone states something on social media, it has usually been taken on a viewpoint: at that point data is generally viewed with a confirmation bias type approach. I am wondering…
It'd need good STEM education in young age, not shy on math, or at the very least doing computer programming professionally at some points of life.
Good luck finding those in the last couple generations in the West.
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I mean loads of people have very precise and good memories. Photographic memory as a term exists for a reason
Photographic memory is not a real phenomenon though. But eidetic memory is real, some people can remember almost everything they read. But they don’t remember photographic images.
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Bread is defined as anything I think bread is, and the same goes for any other word. To hold another position would be in some way dishonest.
That’s not a definition :) And, by the way, a definition is not defined as whatever one thinks a definition is.
There is a lot of context that is needed to get to a positive identification (maybe the word you meant) of bread, but that is true of many definitions present in dictionaries, etc. today.
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One way to make this clear to yourself is to observe how much more difficult it is to "define bread" than it is to answer "is this bread?"
Bread is defined as anything I think bread is, and the same goes for any other word. To hold another position would be in some way dishonest.
Notably, the public reacted similarly then as HN does now, rejecting the notion that meaning is only constructed and, furthermore, hopelessly solipsistic.
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Creating models with predictive power is also a precise definition of science.
Not necessarily, since models that predict correctly can still be wrong. Science is figuring out the real mechanism
While we are improving our predictive power, we’re still baffled by the underlying nature of reality. We don’t know the “mechanism” by which the quantum world works.
I think this is why it's hard sometimes to argue in support of something you believe, even if you're right. At one point, all of the relevant facts and figures were loaded into your working memory, and with that information you arrived at a conclusion. Your brain, however, no longer needs those facts and figures; you've gotten what you needed from them, and they can be kicked out of working memory. What you store the…