Applying it to what problem? (If you mean the physics posts you linked to, I need more time to digest it fully)
No, not that comment, I mean the initial post. The problem is handling mathematical systems in an epistemology. A lot of epistemologies have a hard time with that because of ontological issues.
Nobody actually conceptualises science as being about deriving from thinking “pink is my favority color and it isn’t” → “causality doesn’t work”.
No, but many people hold the view that you can talk about valid statements as constraining ontological possibilities. This is including Eliezer of 2012. If you read the High Advance Epistemology posts on math, he does reason about the particular logical laws constraining how the physics of time and space work in our universe. And the view is very old, going back to before Aristotle, through Leibniz to the present.
No, not that comment, I mean the initial post. The problem is handling mathematical systems in an epistemology.
Handling mathematical systems in an epistemology is in my idea a topic but not a specific problem. In that topic there are probably a bunch of practical problem but.
Molecular biology is a subject. Predicting protein folding results is a specific problem.
If we look at FAI, writing a bot that performs well in the prisoner dilemma tournaments that are about verifying source code of the other bots is a specific problem.
The are also problems in the daily business of doing science where the scientist has to decide between multiple possible courses of action.
No, not that comment, I mean the initial post. The problem is handling mathematical systems in an epistemology. A lot of epistemologies have a hard time with that because of ontological issues.
No, but many people hold the view that you can talk about valid statements as constraining ontological possibilities. This is including Eliezer of 2012. If you read the High Advance Epistemology posts on math, he does reason about the particular logical laws constraining how the physics of time and space work in our universe. And the view is very old, going back to before Aristotle, through Leibniz to the present.
Handling mathematical systems in an epistemology is in my idea a topic but not a specific problem. In that topic there are probably a bunch of practical problem but.
Molecular biology is a subject. Predicting protein folding results is a specific problem.
If we look at FAI, writing a bot that performs well in the prisoner dilemma tournaments that are about verifying source code of the other bots is a specific problem.
The are also problems in the daily business of doing science where the scientist has to decide between multiple possible courses of action.