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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Seems there are good reasons to replace humans.<br><br>1) Humans can’t easily travel to new planets due to radiation and hostile environments.<br>2) Our appetite for energy is vast and our decadence unbounded. A rising standard of living for all humans will accelerate this due to increased demands for fossil fuels.<br>3) At least in the United States, our education system is not serving the whole of the population effectively, leading to the election of people that make our problems worse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>4) We can’t cooperate to solve or even identify real problems.<br>5) AI seems to be successfully harvesting human knowledge and extending it, e.g. AlphaFold.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Prof David West <profwest@fastmail.fm><br><b>Date: </b>Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 10:16 AM<br><b>To: </b>friam@redfish.com <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Thank you Roger. Fascinating read. Moravec has evolved considerably from his <i>Mind Children </i>(1990) days when he predicted we would all be "uploaded" to robot bodies by now.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The University where I started my teaching career, St. Thomas in St. Paul MN, recently announced a new center <a href="https://www.stthomas.edu/e">https://www.stthomas.edu/e</a> AI for the Common Good. I just wrote them a 20 page missive that strangely paralleled the Moravec article as a caution and with suggestions for where they might find success.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>My very first professional publication was a two part article in AI Magazine (then the journal of record for AI research). I did a lot of work with neural nets and was heavily involved, academically/researching and professionally/building, Expert Systems—the previous explosion of irrational exuberance about AI. My Ph.D. dissertation included a model of cognition derived from the topographic metaphor explaining neural nets and incorporating culture as a force helping shape the topography of the net. vTAO, virtual Topographic Adaptive Organism.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Moravec notes, that within the AI community, Winograd was a leader in suggesting that AI should be used to augment humans and not replace them. It should be noted that others have long advocated computing/computers should have the same goal: Vannevar Bush (1945), Douglas Englebart (1962), Alan Kay (the Dynabook 1972), and Steve Jobs (computer as "bicycle for the mind") are some examples.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>One piece of advice I gave to St. Thomas was to focus on where the the 'intelligence' in current AI systems really is—training set tutors, prompt engineers, and interpretation of generative outputs. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>davew<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>On Thu, Dec 12, 2024, at 10:24 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt' id=qt><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hans Moravec kicks off a forum, <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai-we-deserve/">https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai-we-deserve/</a>, about why the instrumentalist computer science and AI we inherited from DARPA grants isn't the only possible version or the only version we need. Life is not entirely composed of self aiming gun turrets and supply chains.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- rec --<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 7:19 AM glen <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Interesting. What was your prompt?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>It's important to remember that Claude and GPT are prone to bullsh¡t. When asked to compare apples to oranges, they will happily and confidently make the comparison even if it's a category error. Leitgeb's footnote might be of use:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>"This motivation for Ramsifying classical semantics is orthogonal to instrumentalist or<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>functionalist motivations: the point of Ramsey semantics is neither to show that talk of<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>interpretation is merely instrumental nor to convey insights into the ‘nature’ of truth, but<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>to deal with semantic indeterminacy. In contrast, e.g., Wright’s [85] paper on Ramsification<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>and monism-vs.-pluralism-about-truth does not apply Ramsification for the sake of doing<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>semantics and in fact presupposes semantic determinacy (see [85], p. 272)."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>where [85] is:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Wright, C. (2010). Truth, Ramsification, and the pluralist’s revenge. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 88(2), 265–283. <a href="https://philpapers.org/archive/writra.pdf" target="_blank">https://philpapers.org/archive/writra.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>On 12/11/24 21:55, Pieter Steenekamp wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> Different strokes for different okes, indeed. In my realm of AI — and previously in control systems — fuzzy logic has been the trusty spanner for tackling vagueness. Seeking a fresh perspective, I turned to ChatGPT, which delivered this thoughtful comparison:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> "Ramsey semantics and fuzzy logic both grapple with vagueness but chart fundamentally different courses. Ramsey semantics clings to the rigorous shores of classical logic and binary truth values (true/false), navigating semantic indeterminacy by emphasizing the roles terms occupy rather than insisting on their precision, making it a philosophical and theoretical endeavor. Meanwhile, fuzzy logic boldly abandons binary constraints, introducing gradations of truth (e.g., 0.3 or 0.7), rendering it an elegant mathematical tool for practical domains like control systems and AI. Where Ramsey semantics contemplates the hazy edges of meaning, fuzzy logic quantifies vagueness as a smooth gradient between truth and falsehood."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> I must admit, ChatGPT's knack for juxtaposing the lofty with the practical was a pleasant surprise—perhaps an unintended nod to my eclectic career path!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 at 02:45, glen <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" target="_blank">gepropella@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" target="_blank">gepropella@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/LEIRAS-3" target="_blank">https://philpapers.org/rec/LEIRAS-3</a> <<a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/LEIRAS-3" target="_blank">https://philpapers.org/rec/LEIRAS-3</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@DailyNous@zirk.us" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@DailyNous@zirk.us</a> <<a href="https://mastodon.social/@DailyNous@zirk.us" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@DailyNous@zirk.us</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> I found this paper by Weinberg's post to Mastodon through the write up of Leitbeg's projects here:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> <a href="https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/person/85399322?language=en" target="_blank">https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/person/85399322?language=en</a> <<a href="https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/person/85399322?language=en" target="_blank">https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/person/85399322?language=en</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> I didn't find any papers on scholar or philpapers talking directly about the reference patterns of paradox through graph theory. But both his composition of similarity and non-eliminative structuralism were graph heavy. Good stuff. I have yet to read the ramsification paper. But, as usual, here's Claude's summary of it:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> > - Classical semantics presupposes the existence of a unique factually determined intended interpretation of a language. However, there are reasons to doubt this presupposition holds in general, due to phenomena like vagueness, structuralism in mathematics, and theory change in science.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> ><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> > - The author proposes Ramsey semantics as an alternative that avoids presupposing a unique intended interpretation. Instead, it merely postulates the existence of an admissible interpretation from which truth is defined classically.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> ><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> > - Formally, Ramsey semantics replaces the intended interpretation I in classical semantics with an epsilon term εF(F</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif'>∈</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Adm) that "picks" an interpretation from the class Adm of admissible interpretations. Truth is then defined relative to this interpretation.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> ><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> > - Ramsey semantics preserves the key features of classical semantics - classical logic, a classical concept of truth, compositionality, bivalence, etc. But it allows the intended interpretation to be indeterminate when Adm contains more than one member.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> ><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> > - The author argues Ramsey semantics is closer to classical semantics than supervaluationism while still allowing semantic indeterminacy. It provides reasonable treatments of the Sorites paradox, higher-order vagueness, and interpretational continuity between theories.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> ><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> > - Overall, Ramsey semantics aims to capture the advantages of classical semantics while being less risky, by not presupposing semantic determinacy. 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