The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode(tane.dev)

63 pointsby taubek7 ngày trước40 comments

The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

https://tane.dev/2026/07/the-reports-of-jim-carreys-death-are-a-failure-mode/

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sigbottle6 ngày trước

I mean mathematicians have encoded a decent amount of the operations you mean for messy versus true / false. Turing machines are built from mere Boolean logic, but also notions of compression, information theory, projections, function mappings, etc. provide all the math-crank language you want to reformulate knowledge work.

The issue is that mathematics really does not have a good answer for how things update.

seanhunter6 ngày trước

Not really sure what you’re getting at here. Maths has a very good answer (Bayes’ Theorem[1]) about how, in an uncertain world, one should update our belief in a hypothesis in the light of updated information.

[1] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BayesTheorem.html

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