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The Fourth Epistemic

The Fourth Epistemic

How did I not see it?

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
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I have written before about three critical epistemic skills, but it never crossed my mind that I should teach a machine how to think. Nevertheless, if reason, humility and knowledge are good for humans, they must be good for machine intelligences as well. So we need to address the fourth wall. Actually, the ceiling.

The Epistemics

Michael David Cobb Bowen
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May 30, 2021
The Epistemics

This isn’t my idea. It’s just a compelling one that I understood immediately when I heard it. Now it’s a good one for analytical people, but I am legacy analytical. I’m looking to get to an absence of self, which means over time I’ll be getting rid of a class of desires and attachments. Hopefully I can perfect that before it’s my time to leave the realm…

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