the Copernican revolution with respect to your place in the multiverse
This is interesting… I saw Luciano Floridi give a talk recently where he talked about the “information revolution” and its relationship to past revolutions (borrowing from Freud’s history). To summarize:
Copernicus displaced us from the center of the universe
Darwin displaced us from the center of the biosphere
Freud revealed that we’re not fully rational and transparent to ourselves
The information revolution (which he identifies with Turing) revealed that we’re not unique in terms of our ability to process information and be part of information-processing systems
I’d swap Turing for Weiner, but that’s really an unimportant turf war.
I’ve noticed that too. What’s odder is that they seem to come and go. I have no evidence, but I swear that sometimes I’ll see a link to google in a comment on one day, and the link rendered as /”>google in the same comment on another day, etc. Strange.
I have noticed this too. It looks like bytes get randomly corrupted or deleted during transfer. This would indicate a hardware problem. Next time I see it, I’ll ‘View Source’ and observe exactly what’s wrong with the HTML I received.
This is interesting… I saw Luciano Floridi give a talk recently where he talked about the “information revolution” and its relationship to past revolutions (borrowing from Freud’s history). To summarize:
Copernicus displaced us from the center of the universe
Darwin displaced us from the center of the biosphere
Freud revealed that we’re not fully rational and transparent to ourselves
The information revolution (which he identifies with Turing) revealed that we’re not unique in terms of our ability to process information and be part of information-processing systems
I’d swap Turing for Weiner, but that’s really an unimportant turf war.
ETA: relevant paper—www.philosophyofinformation.net/publications/pdf/tisip.pdf—pdf warning
Whoops, formatting issue.
Thanks. I’m not sure if it’s the web app or Google Chrome.
I’ve seen a lot of HTML errors from the Less Wrong page on every browser I’ve tried.
I’ve noticed that too. What’s odder is that they seem to come and go. I have no evidence, but I swear that sometimes I’ll see a link to google in a comment on one day, and the link rendered as /”>google in the same comment on another day, etc. Strange.
I have noticed this too. It looks like bytes get randomly corrupted or deleted during transfer. This would indicate a hardware problem. Next time I see it, I’ll ‘View Source’ and observe exactly what’s wrong with the HTML I received.