The Fourth Epistemic
How did I not see it?
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
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…
The Fourth Epistemic Skill
The fourth…
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