What I take from the sequence up to this point is that the way we formalize information is unfit to capture knowledge. This is quite intuitive, but you also give concrete counterexamples that are really helpful.
It is reasonable to say that a data recorder is accumulating nonzero knowledge, but it is strange to say that exchanging the sensor data for a model derived from that sensor data is always a net decrease in knowledge.
Definitely agreed. This sounds like your proposal doesn’t capture the transformation of information into more valuable precomputation (making valuable abstraction requires throwing away some information).
These are still writing that I drafted before we chatted a couple of weeks ago btw. I have some new ideas based on the things we chatted about that I hope to write up soon :)
Nice post, as always.
What I take from the sequence up to this point is that the way we formalize information is unfit to capture knowledge. This is quite intuitive, but you also give concrete counterexamples that are really helpful.
Definitely agreed. This sounds like your proposal doesn’t capture the transformation of information into more valuable precomputation (making valuable abstraction requires throwing away some information).
Yep, agreed.
These are still writing that I drafted before we chatted a couple of weeks ago btw. I have some new ideas based on the things we chatted about that I hope to write up soon :)