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Scaling Knowledge 4 years ago

I think 4 comes closes. "Maintaining proportion" here could refer to the breadth and depth of the knowledge. These forces are somewhat antagonal so that we need to maintain a certain ratio to reach complete understanding. David Deutsch explains this to some extent in the first ~20 pages of the fabric of reality.

We need sometimes to step back and communicate the "meta". Not just the assumptions but also the definitions.

Yes, good point. Do you think assumptions and definitions are something different? If yes, how are they different? The problem I solved with choosing a name for the blog was that I wanted to communicate a category of what will appear on this blog, which I think the less defined/fuzzy term solved well.

I guess, I was assuming none of these. But the word scale as in scaling a business/company[0].

PS : Remnote rocks !

Happy to hear that!!

[0] for ex. https://www.lightercapital.com/blog/what-is-scaling-in-busin...

Scaling Knowledge 4 years ago

Just as there are odors that dogs can smell and we cannot, as well as sounds that dogs can hear and we cannot, so too there are wavelengths of light we cannot see and flavors we cannot taste.

This is comparing ourselves with dogs lol. We are much more than that. We can build scientific instruments to smell what dogs smell or hear what they hear etc. See: https://publicism.info/science/infinity/7.html

Scaling Knowledge 4 years ago

Today I'm launching—Scaling Knowledge: https://scalingknowledge.substack.com/

A new blog/podcast about epistemology, AI, startups, and progress.

Inaugural pieces include: - Human Progress via Intellectual Progress (https://scalingknowledge.substack.com/p/human-progress-via-i...) - Knowledge: Burden or Boost? (https://scalingknowledge.substack.com/p/knowledge-burden-or-...) - Criticism and The Ascent of Man (https://scalingknowledge.substack.com/p/criticism)

Would love to hear your feedback and criticism!

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Articles I plan to write:

Optimistic Hard Sci-Fi

Recursive & Social Curiosity

Scaling Laws & Knowledge Infrastructure

Decision-making via hard-to-vary explanations

and much more...

Also tweeted about this here: https://twitter.com/MoritzW42/status/1597327210309885962/