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Truth having layers of detail seems accurate to me. Outer layers conflicting with inner layers is foolish and means that the outer layer wasn’t true at all. Fi

• xapata 5y ago
  You'd not be able to label anything as non-fiction, unless it were from the mouth of Cthulu. No matter how dryly something is presented, the reader should still be skeptical.
  • prepend 5y ago
    I think it’s hard to be 100% accurate, but that doesn’t mean we should give up and purposely, or incompetently, include falseness when we’re trying to tell the truth.
• Talanes 5y ago
  > Truth having layers of detail seems accurate to me. Outer layers conflicting with inner layers is foolish and means that the outer layer wasn’t true at all. That just seems like how most teaching works. I.e. No one starts out learning physics as it works in any physical space, you start with a simplified fake version to start to understand concepts before you can start to handle greater complexity and approach greater truths.
  • prepend 5y ago
    There’s honest fake and dishonest fake. Using simplified, fake versions to learn concepts makes perfect sense. Teaching people that fake versions are actually true just to learn concepts is counterproductive. There’s no advantage to lying about training models and it’s not healthy, I think, to pretend I’m doing this for the good of my audience.