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The Long Shadow of Complexity (w/ David Krakauer)

Uncertain Things

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The Reign of Quantity

There's a sense in which natural language is much more polyseamous than mathematics, right? But just this point that, as you said, if I use the word reproduction versus I use this mathematical operation of halving the information, clearly the former has vastly more ambiguity in it than the latter. It still has ambiguity in it, which you mean by information, on and on. So I think the key to our success in this weird integration of paradigms is finding the language which does the best job,. not the perfect job, but the best job of minimizing ambiguity.

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