Because It Speaks in Words

ssonicrocketman 2 days ago 3 commentsRead Article on brianschrader.com

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sonicrocketman•24 minutes ago

Author here. Great to see this making its way up HN! I've been thinking about this topic for a while and it's nice to see people engaging with it.

Animats•about 2 hours ago

"unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the Natural Sciences"

That's a reflection of underlying simplicity. There are only a few classical physical laws. Physical prediction follows from that. Hence the power of math. Biology does not have that property.

"Our chosen, crafted interlocutor is not a mind like ours. It is a device which has no notion of truth or of morality."

Trump?

1970-01-01•31 minutes ago

Derived math in biology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz_function#Formula