[FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

[Vladimyr Burachynsky]

Glen, 
You are assuming that a very elaborate sophisticated machine based model will work better than swarms of  microbots stitching micro sized jpegs together.

Evolution by its persistence seems to prove that some small part is working correctly. This gives me some faith that we are not a lost cause. Furthermore the Impact of civilization has been underestimated. Writing allows the distant dead to still contribute to current investigations making their insights almost contemporary. I read the announcements of Google's   "Deep Think" and "TensorFlow" this week and was delighted to hear that this is Open Source Code.

I have a sense that AI's will become a stabilizing foundation of civilization and memory will no longer be limited to a single life time. Or a single POV.

A swarm of gnats with digital cameras and microphones may make a difference to all of us sooner than  a grand Nova Zeus machine.

Oh goody more Code to play with.
vib


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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ?
Sent: February-21-17 4:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs


Tesselation vs. approximation: Ah, right.  I was sloppy with my language.  Sorry.

What you say in the blurb below is questionable because it implies something about the representations ... something like an equivalence of expressive power or somesuch.  If there is such a thing as expressive power, then a stronger representation should not be recoverable from a weaker one.  But I suppose if they all are built from the same type of basis set, then multiple weak ones allow recovery of strong ones.

I'm always fascinated by the emphasis we (all) place on coherence and internal consistency.  It seems like some sort of rhetorical fallacy, perhaps the fallacy fallacy.  Perhaps we can arrive at the truth in spite of completely flawed (e.g. self-inconsistent) representations?  Even a broken clock (Trump) is right (a)periodically.

On 02/21/2017 01:09 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote:
> In some manner every representation whatever default settings have been applied should be recoverable with every other representation and coherent.
> The more coherent viewpoints the closer the approximation of Truth.


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☣ glen

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