Phil<p>On the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/mountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mountain</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wales</span></a> one sees a good example of Popper’s objective knowledge. Friston’s “knowledge etched into the landscape” … which bears strong relation to <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Affordances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Affordances</span></a> from systems theory. One foot doesn’t obviously mark a rock. 1000 feet and hands or more per year mark out the path and shows you where to go. </p><p>I feel there is an analogy to <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ML</span></a> built of shared datasets, collected and curated. But the current wave <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> kleptocracy is not that. It doesn’t create means of access to knowledge. It created <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/dependance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dependance</span></a> through false convenience. It makes people more stupid on purpose and dependent by design.</p>