Elon Musk is building the largest generative AI in the world in Memphis. It is named Project Colossus. I wonder if he is unaware of the scifi movie on an AI that takes over the world named Colussus; The Forbin Project- or if it was a template- speculative fiction repeating itself in history.
"When adjusted for inflation, the 2024 federal minimum wage is significantly lower than the real value of the minimum wage in 1970."-Google search
Maybe President Trumps equalization of global tariffs will bring more work and a higher minimum wage to American workers. Some say the revenue from tariffs will go to pay down the public debt- Congress is seeking to raise the debt ceiling 5 trillion dollars. It is also said that the revenue is necessary to finance war with Iran to stop it from developing nuclear weapons and financing attacks on Israel.
I was conversing with Gemini about the limits of LLMs since they are based on human language, and human language is just an approximation-perhaps statistically founded, on what is perceived. There is no direct relation between word and object such that the language has an element of realism about it. Various languages have different words of the experience of a red apple, and to some individuals it might even correlate with fear (perhaps Newton was traumatized being hit in the head with an apple).
There isn't much doubt that some academics since Dewey have said that truth is subjective. If language is subjective the statement has some truth about it. Language has a pragmatic basis though. People are free to reject truth where it is necessary and to be stupid if they prefer. Logic is a way of structuring analysis, and some don't like analytic philosophy either.
I liked Ian Sterwart's Flatland and the sequel Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So. Logic seems fine with n dimensions though. Maybe one could add new logic methods. Logic isn't geometry or cosmology. Euclidean and Riemannian geometry are equally not logic, which isn't math. People will argue about trans-finite numbers and infinity, the void and noumena, yet the known is the sole realm one knows and that goes for logic too- not a reason to be dismissive. One can only examine where one is-like prisoners on the floor of Plato's cave. Because there may well be somewhere else than the known Universe- even if that realm is God's , that does not mean that knowledge of where one is, is meaningless.
Here is a list of people that have supported the subjectivity of truth values provide by ChatGPT; "Since John Dewey, several academics, particularly in postmodernist and pragmatist traditions, have argued that truth is subjective or at least socially constructed. Some key figures include:
Richard Rorty (1931–2007) – A neopragmatist heavily influenced by Dewey, Rorty rejected the idea of objective truth, arguing instead that truth is what a given community finds useful to believe. He saw truth as a product of language and social practice rather than an objective correspondence with reality.
Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) – While not directly arguing that truth is subjective, Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) suggested that scientific paradigms determine what is considered true, implying that truth is relative to historical and social contexts.
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) – Foucault explored how knowledge and truth are shaped by power structures, arguing that truth is historically contingent and constructed through discourse rather than an objective reality.
Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) – In The Postmodern Condition (1979), Lyotard critiqued grand narratives and universal claims to truth, suggesting that truth is localized, contextual, and shaped by language games.
Bruno Latour (1947–2022) – A key figure in Science and Technology Studies (STS), Latour argued that scientific facts are constructed through networks of human and non-human actors, challenging the idea of objective truth.
Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) – Derrida’s deconstruction challenged the stability of meaning in language, implying that truth is always deferred and contingent upon interpretation."
Nelson Goodman (1906–1998) – In Ways of World making (1978), Goodman argued that truth depends on the conceptual frameworks we construct, suggesting multiple “right” descriptions of reality rather than one objective truth."
Plainly the notion that truth values are entirely and invariably subjective is useful to politicians who prefer lies and deceit. I believe they misunderstand the context of subjectivity for reasons of personal utility and positive reward for dismissing objective truth.
It may be that some people don’t understand the paradigm of subjective and objective distinctions for language and perception; they differ from one another.
There are several views on cosmology structures, the Lamda CDM is one with GR and Spacetime and that contrasts with Newton's idea of the void (modify that to be a void without time at all rather than 'absolute time’ of Newton that GR shows to be incorrect. They throw out the idea of a pre-existent /eternal/timeless void with GR. A modern theory that may surpass the voodoo Lamda Cold Dark Matter CDM model is one that has space-time and all of the contingent-entangled Universe being comparable to an illusion that occurs on or from an underlying timeless realm.
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If President Trump wants the Ukraine war to end he should stop supporting it militarily. Zelensky will play him for as long as he can wile seeking to replace American support with European support. When he achieves a significant amount of European based intelligence and weapons supplies he will have no reason to stop the conflict until a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance squad knocks o his door and asks him to.
President Trump should get some kind of understanding with President Putin where he will stop the Russian advance if and when American stops supplying Ukraine with the means to continue the conflict and Russia begins a quick advance into Ukrainian positions in the aftermath. President Trump needs to know that Russia won’t simply seek to conquer all of Ukraine.
President Trump can well approach ending the war without the cooperation of Ukraine. If Russia agrees to stop after achieving select territorial goals that President Trump can accept, such as are located on the East bank of the Dnepr, and Ukraine though essentially defeated will not quit hostilities, it may be necessary to bring in some other military forces- possibly those of Vietnam or Kenya to reinforce Russian positions along the settled border that Ukraine won’t accept. The United States could place sanctions on Ukraine until they recognize the new Russia-Ukraine border.
Zelensky and Putin both should be honest and forthright with President Trump. President Trump needs to apply realpolitik to military parameters to bring the war to an end even though Senators Schiff and Schumer may not like it.
I read sf in the 70's-usually stuff-Herbert, Clarke, Heinlein, Asimov etc as well as philosophy, science and history that i continued along with the Bible. I took a science fiction course and a fiction to film course in the 80's yet generally my three main focuses continued until I decided to complete college undergrad work after taking a programming and systems analysis program at a business college. Science became a place for inventive synthetic speculation, and one could easily be swamped with interesting discoveries in science published in Nature, Scientific American, New Scientist etc. I took a two-year M.A. course in theology to better understand theology, and read a lot of books on physics, Multiverses from people like John D. Barrow etc (i.e. The Book of Universes). Recently I discovered P.R. Adams and I binge read his books. Really a greatly entertaining science fiction author.
I don't know of a better schema than the posteriori, a priori and synthetic a priori. It's just a stage on life’s philosophical way of developing understanding of mind and its place in nature. With quantum mechanics knowledge and the Higgs field basically affirming Kant’s position on the noumenon Kant’s outlook remains solid enough. It doesn’t preclude Platonic realism concerning forms and theories about how quanta are configured; yet no one understands the deepest layers of space-time these days.
People speculate about what supports the quantum entanglement Universe phenomena in four dimensions and it is just theory. String theorists proposed 11 dimensions with just four manifested yet it seems more logical that just two dimensions underlie the Universe of entanglement and the doubling of dimensions is an emergent phenomenon of entanglement. It is popular these days to use the Plank length as a mystic limit below which marvelous things such as a Multiverse occurs with very tiny people of angelic disposition living as it were, on the head of pins, yet the limits of verification are obvious- the right answer could be just two dimensions and then nothingness from which something emerged with the Word of God.
Schopenhauer attempted to continue Kant's work in The Fourfold Roots of Reason with a more physicalist approach and though it starts out brilliantly and narcissistically, it peters out with theories about the eye and optics.
Plato’s realism could be reverse engineered in a way from Aristotle's classifications and categories maybe. Sorting forms of things perceived into categories of forms that break down in the temporal implicitly leads to a theory of forms that don’t break down. That reminds me of atomic structure theories and the Pauli exclusion principle that just one electron can be in an orbit and if two, one must have an opposite spin.
Kant’s work was great for a couple of centuries ago. People have advanced the realm of knowledge, theory and uncertainty since. Like the thousands of people that have tried to disprove Descartes’ Meditations they might develop instead a better appreciation of the contribution and not try to put new wine into old wineskins.
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