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0 pointstaeric1y ago0 comments

And this logic is how folks convince themselves that ball players are doing trigonometry when playing. It is just wrong.

You can /model/ it that way. But you are making a symbolic model to justify how a solution is reached.

Now, it can be frustrating to consider that this model could produce an agent that is better at the ball game than the players. But it is silly to think that means you have mirrored them.

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naasking1y ago

> And this logic is how folks convince themselves that ball players are doing trigonometry when playing. It is just wrong.

You're attempting a sleight of hand here by saying "they're" not "doing trig". Clearly they are not doing anything like that consciously, but equally clearly some part of their brain is triangulating objects and predicting trajectories based on gradients, meaning that part is "doing trig and calculus" subconsciously. What else does it mean to "do something" if not "process X is isomorphic to process Y"?

> You can /model/ it that way. But you are making a symbolic model to justify how a solution is reached.

I really don't understand what you think people are doing when they're compiling a grocery list. They're clearly thinking, "I need x AND y OR I can substitute z".

Or if they're planning to paint their fence, they're thinking, "I need paint AND brushes AND I have to start before lunch OR I won't finish before dinner".

taericOP1y ago

No. You are confusing the model for the reality. Again, our model may lead to a more impressive reality, but ball players are not doing trig. They are almost certainly simulating things, but that does not require trig. Indeed, it only loosely requires math. Models can be very informal with loose approximations.

You seem to think I have to prove your model false to show others don't do that. But I am specifically not claiming your model is false. I'm saying folks don't think that way, necessarily. For example, many build lists for shopping that they were taught. Not that they reasoned.

naasking1y ago

The ability to build lists requires reasoning. It requires enumeration, inclusion/exclusion conditions, and stop conditions, which necessarily requires logic. This argument is pointless, you go on believing that some people can't use basic logical connectives, I'm sure next you'll say they can't even count.

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naasking1y ago

> And this logic is how folks convince themselves that ball players are doing trigonometry when playing. It is just wrong.

> You can /model/ it that way. But you are making a symbolic model to justify how a solution is reached.

I really don't understand what you think people are doing when they're compiling a grocery list. They're clearly thinking, "I need x AND y OR I can substitute z".

Or if they're planning to paint their fence, they're thinking, "I need paint AND brushes AND I have to start before lunch OR I won't finish before dinner".

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