> also, there’s one way to end all prediction error forever, and it’s something depressed people think about a lot
We believe it will end them forever. I strongly believe so. But that's still a belief, and may itself be a prediction error.
We believe it will end them forever. I strongly believe so. But that's still a belief, and may itself be a prediction error.
I don't think we need to call it a "belief" anymore than we need to say Russel's Teapot not existing is a "belief." We certainly could go down that route, but then virtually everything becomes a belief and we're left with a much less meaningful term.
I kinda feel like this argument is similar to an nihilist telling a logician that nothing is true.
However! As is often bandied about in this forum, we might conceivably be living in a simulation. In which case the Abrahamic stuff wouldn't be all that baloney after all. Or I might be living in one, and being the only character in it. Et cetera blah blah blah.
Or, much more to the point, the universe may indeed be far stranger than we know or can ever know. As certain as I am that my year 2100 will be exactly like my year 1900, I could actually have been wrong about the ultimate setup of the world all along.