A collection of philosophical fragments exploring the nature of knowledge, certainty, and artificial intelligence. Like Wittgenstein’s notebooks, these are not finished treatises but evolving thoughts that connect, contradict, and question each other.
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proposition
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Explores whether AI systems can exhibit genuine agency without possessing intentional mental states, examining the gap between optimization and purposiveness.
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#agency
#intentionality
#optimization
#emergence
#goal-directed-behavior
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mature
proposition
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Wittgenstein's opening remark on certainty: if we grant basic facts, everything else follows.
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#certainty
#knowledge
#Moore's-paradox
#ground-truth
#axioms
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mature
critique
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The gap between something seeming true (even to everyone) and it actually being true — the foundation of AI calibration problems.
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#subjectivity
#consensus
#reality
#confidence
#hallucination
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mature
proposition
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We don't verify our worldview before accepting it — it's the inherited background against which we distinguish true from false.
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#world-picture
#inheritance
#background
#training-data
#priors
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mature
proposition
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Our foundational beliefs are like mythology — learned practically without explicit articulation.
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#mythology
#rules
#implicit-learning
#language-games
#deep-learning
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mature
paradox
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The paradox of universal doubt: attempting to doubt everything presupposes a framework of certainty.
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#doubt
#certainty
#paradox
#foundations
#stability