My perception of time is like sampling from a continuous 2D plane of conceptual space, something akin to git railways but with a thickness to the lines, like electron orbital probability clouds that are dense around plausible points of view of what happened in the past and thin around conspiracy theories, as different linear mind-map perspectives of people standing around a sculpture, each only inferring what’s on the other side, but together they can prune down non-overlapping minority reports, sticking to the consensus but never deleting (git) history.
My sense of beauty finds it displeasing to read articles with only point measurements and only n-point predictions and to look at charts from a single interpretation / scenario, I have to hallucinate the gaps, infer the systemic bias and imagine the size of the error bars due to “randomness” as if the authors were good intentioned and as if the authors had an agenda to prove a point, would they stumble upon convenient evidence before they stopped looking?
But alternative timelines that are infinitesimally thin and split only on known unknowns would imply perfect Bayesian approximators, an impossible standard, uncomputable. No one has ever made that kind of precise prediction, why do we allow prediction-readers to behave as if prediction-writers could have made an infinitely precise measurable decidable statements with completely non-ambiguous semantics that will be evaluated to a non-reversible Boolean?
My perception of time is like sampling from a continuous 2D plane of conceptual space, something akin to git railways but with a thickness to the lines, like electron orbital probability clouds that are dense around plausible points of view of what happened in the past and thin around conspiracy theories, as different linear mind-map perspectives of people standing around a sculpture, each only inferring what’s on the other side, but together they can prune down non-overlapping minority reports, sticking to the consensus but never deleting (git) history.
My sense of beauty finds it displeasing to read articles with only point measurements and only n-point predictions and to look at charts from a single interpretation / scenario, I have to hallucinate the gaps, infer the systemic bias and imagine the size of the error bars due to “randomness” as if the authors were good intentioned and as if the authors had an agenda to prove a point, would they stumble upon convenient evidence before they stopped looking?
But alternative timelines that are infinitesimally thin and split only on known unknowns would imply perfect Bayesian approximators, an impossible standard, uncomputable. No one has ever made that kind of precise prediction, why do we allow prediction-readers to behave as if prediction-writers could have made an infinitely precise measurable decidable statements with completely non-ambiguous semantics that will be evaluated to a non-reversible Boolean?