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One of my all-time favorite papers is: In Praise of Epistemic Irresponsibility: How Lazy and Ignorant Can You Be by Michael Bishop. The author looks at empiric
by yboris 5y ago
One of my all-time favorite papers is: In Praise of Epistemic Irresponsibility: How Lazy and Ignorant Can You Be by Michael Bishop.
The author looks at empirical evidence (experiments) and shows that you can take experts' predictions, use a super-dumb statistical model of what they do, and then outperform the experts' judgments with a simple linear model!
https://philarchive.org/archive/BISIPOv1 https://philarchive.org/archive/BISIPOv1