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Because It Speaks in Words

13 pointsby sonicrocketmanlast Monday at 4:06 PM4 commentsview on HN

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karahimetoday at 8:10 PM

Doesn't really match my experience.

sonicrocketmantoday at 7:17 PM

Author here. Great to see this making its way up HN! I've been thinking about this topic for a while and it's nice to see people engaging with it.

Animatstoday at 5:54 PM

"unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the Natural Sciences"

That's a reflection of underlying simplicity. There are only a few classical physical laws. Physical prediction follows from that. Hence the power of math. Biology does not have that property.

"Our chosen, crafted interlocutor is not a mind like ours. It is a device which has no notion of truth or of morality."

Trump?

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hoistthesalestoday at 7:03 PM

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