What does the terms “turtles all the way down” and “infinite regress” mean?
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Turtles all the way down is from the turtle island myth, where they said the land is on the back of a turtle.
The natural question is: what is the turtle standing on?
The reply was, of course, on the back of another turtle.
That turtle on another turtle, on another turtle. “it’s turtles all the way down”.
The trope was extended to anything that failed to fully explain something. God created the universe, who created God? Another God? Then it’s just turtles again.
Its coming up recently because of chatgpt. What happens if the input of a language model is from itself? You wind up with turtles.
Regress means really the same thing. Turtles on turtles
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