Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστMar 18

this is so perfect as a phrasing

"AI asks that you buy into the idea that more data means being closer to The Truth." @mel_hogan

I also explain this and take pains to really hammer home this is NOT EVEN TRUE in science, more data is NOT a better theory or account!

https://disjunctionsmag.com/articles/ends-of-ai/

The Ends of AI

Sycophancy and psychosis

Disjunctions
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@olivia @mel_hogan One of the main tenets of Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery, which a lot of lip service at least is paid to, is that there is no methodical way from data to theory at all. (Iterating Hume, of course.)
Mar 18 at 6:40amWeb
Show threadOlivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστMar 18
@hllizi @mel_hogan cc @Iris