Recent content by rstone4500

I will only be satisfied with uncountable infinities! Okay, conceding, we have to be practical. In my AI work I realize that somehow the human brain manages to deal with the serious amount of uncertainty in the world, without going over the cliff too often. Somehow we manage to mostly survive...

'good job' is a close approximation to 'fully predicting' but certainly involves risk. Another example of non-fully predictable models is social and political systems. An unpredictable political - economic decision can swing markets, and you can't know for sure beforehand. Because the full model...

There is an analogy here to the different views of classical physics and quantum mechanics. Classical physics is very deterministic and somewhat tied to 1st order predicate logic, whereas QM is oriented towards expressing truths in terms of probability of a truth, and hence you have to reason...