You sound like someone arguing that evolution shouldn’t be able to work because it’s all “blind chance”. Learning, like evolution, is “unblind chance”: what interests me is a combination of what I encounter plus what I already know.
The more I learn, the more I learn about what is and isn’t useful, and I’ve found it useful to drop (or at least reduce the priority of) certain filters that I previously had, while tightening up other filters. That’s not really “random”, in the same way that natural selection is not “random”.
That still isn’t the same as self-experimenting with every procedure that was ever thought up and supported by a visible enough school. As an intelligent being, you should be able to do better than randomness, and well better than evolution. That’s the power of intelligence.
That still isn’t the same as self-experimenting with every procedure that was ever thought up and supported by a visible enough school.
Still strawman? pjeby said:
My personal sorting tool of choice is looking for specificity of language: techniques that are described in as much sensory-oriented, “near” language as possible, with a minimum of abstraction. I also don’t bother evaluating things that don’t make claims that would offer an improvement over anything else I’ve tried, and I have a preference for reading authors who’ve offered insightful models and useful techniques in the past.
You sound like someone arguing that evolution shouldn’t be able to work because it’s all “blind chance”. Learning, like evolution, is “unblind chance”: what interests me is a combination of what I encounter plus what I already know.
The more I learn, the more I learn about what is and isn’t useful, and I’ve found it useful to drop (or at least reduce the priority of) certain filters that I previously had, while tightening up other filters. That’s not really “random”, in the same way that natural selection is not “random”.
That still isn’t the same as self-experimenting with every procedure that was ever thought up and supported by a visible enough school. As an intelligent being, you should be able to do better than randomness, and well better than evolution. That’s the power of intelligence.
Still strawman? pjeby said:
See? I don’t even remember reading it.