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I had a teacher, at a seminar I took, that kept saying "We need to know what 'Done' looks like." He also was the first person that told me the old Swiss Army maxim: "If the map and the terrain disagree, believe the terrain." Words to live by, as a delivery-oriented software developer.
He also was the first person that told me the old Swiss Army maxim:
"If the map and the terrain disagree, believe the terrain."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
all maps of a physical territory, yes. that’s a consequence of ħ, at the very least. but once you’ve encoded this best of all possible maps, the uncertainties in the map are quantified (like probabilities). you no longer have “unknown unknowns” so you can just carry through all the PDFs and create a true risk assessment. and it’s these unknown unknowns which were, AFAICT, the heart of this article.
You can’t perfectly calculate the future of any situation ahead of time if you’re part of it, because it becomes chaotic. This is part of the “computers are going to become AGI and enslave us” scam, they show people proofs AIXI is an optimal planner and don’t mention that it doesn’t include itself in the plans in order to make them computable. If it was possible you could beat the stock market.