Exercita

It was actually the entire internet. It didn't matter what the search engine came back with, anything on the internet was suspect.

Then it was Wikipedia. Since anyone could update it, anything on Wikipedia was suspect.

Now even though Claude seems smarter than any person I interact with on a daily basis, it is all suspect.

Then there is the opposite with arxiv. Anything on arxiv is not just true but has authority in an argument, automatically. Everything besides papers on reproducibility. Those are basically ignored.

Epistemology is not our strong point.

I was just trying to understand this about a month ago and it is interesting how little there is in terms of semantic information vs Shannon.

An Outline of a Theory of Semantic Information by Carnap was the early attempt.

Fred Dretske wrote Knowledge and the Flow of Information in 1981.

Luciano Floridi has a few recent books.

I couldn't find much else. I don't think AIC really solves the problem of meaning either.

I think the Dretske book was the first time I really understood where Shannon was coming from but I gave up when it got to his actual semantic ideas.

I think I ran across a recent paper that motivated trying to back track what work had been done in this area but I don't recall the name of the paper.

I've have shelved all this for now as over my head.