There's intent that can't be stored: I can write down the word potato on a shopping list, and again on a recipe, and they represent totally different ideas with exactly the same characters. I interpret the first by going to the market, the other in the kitchen.
I'm sure there are many people eagerly trying to solve this problem by just storing more metadata so we can interpret which interpreter we want, but now we need increasingly more layers of interpreters, and now you're asking for a machine that simulates the universe. I find myself aligning that just processing "data" forever has limits, and our continued refusal to recognize that is going to be very costly.
> I can write down the word potato on a shopping list, and again on a recipe, and they represent totally different ideas with exactly the same characters.
There's intent that can't be stored: I can write down the word potato on a shopping list, and again on a recipe, and they represent totally different ideas with exactly the same characters. I interpret the first by going to the market, the other in the kitchen.
I'm sure there are many people eagerly trying to solve this problem by just storing more metadata so we can interpret which interpreter we want, but now we need increasingly more layers of interpreters, and now you're asking for a machine that simulates the universe. I find myself aligning that just processing "data" forever has limits, and our continued refusal to recognize that is going to be very costly.