Good. Applied machine learning is a cult of ignorance. The point of science-based liberal society" is that doing new things is held hostage by understanding n

Good. Applied machine learning is a cult of ignorance. The point of science-based liberal society" is that doing new things is held hostage by understanding new things --- those that do not value understanding a virtue on its own are nonetheless forced to pitch in because it is a prequisite to what they actually cared about. Applied machine learning is a hack around that. A loophole. It's not healthy, and I hope it fails. ------ Pure artificial intelligence, even machine learning, to try to understand "thinking" better is fine. I got no beef with that. (Though I did think sci fi in the Asimov tradition propped it up to high.)