Re:The Unreasonableness of Math Is Context Independence
by lordnacho on Saturday February 12, 2022 @09:04AM
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Sure, tacit knowledge is a real thing that people talk about. But I see expertise as a kind of navigation through murky waters rather than "theory" which tends to be an explicit thing.
One thing experts can do is tell you when a theory is applicable.
I'll add that eventually experts are replaced, but then by that time there are new experts. The problem domain evolves and what used to require experts is replaced with math, and the new experts are working in the area where things can't be math.
Conceptually I think I'm on point for this, but I don't know if my examples are super good. I'd say business, human language, politics, medicine, and art are all examples of things that have experts. In each of these fields that are things that work, but it's not yet backed up by math.
Maybe it's more accurate to say, given an infinite amount of time and intelligence, everything becomes math? And I think that makes sense, but I'm sort of inclined to believing in an objective, yet logistically intractable reality.