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[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 weeks ago

I think it only makes sense in a European worldview. The idea that the decision making problems are algorithmic or mathematical in nature and this abstractable, universalizable, and permanent is a fantasy.

The more abstraction a higher order system has, the less it is able to respond to changes in the lowest order systems. Highly effective mathematical abstractions for decision making will solve a lot of problems in the short term, mostly problems that exist due to inefficiencies that mask solution spaces from us currently.

But once those short-term problems are solved and the inefficiencies in solution searching are gone, the hard problems will still remain.