🔗 Shut Up and Prove
Sep 10, 20261 min read1 read
Everything from religion to philosophy to art to metaphysics is permeated by this idea that formal reasoning, formal aesthetics, formal intuition, formal logic have deep insights into reality. So what do we do when one of its major arteries is closed off for humans?
This is a strange perspective. The opposite seems more likely to me. Language models allow us to uncover more deep insights. The intellectual pursuit of uncovering those insights before anyone else might be over but not the "digesting" of them.
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