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> OK so we know the answer to this question is 4, let's check our new software against that. > [software returns 4.7] > Oh my GOD, it's discovered new physics
by taneq 4y ago
> OK so we know the answer to this question is 4, let's check our new software against that.
> [software returns 4.7]
> Oh my GOD, it's discovered new physics!
- toxicFork 4y agoAt least it wasn't 42
- Rerarom 4y agoThe new physics is not in the 4.7 but that in that the model's third and fourth variables seem to be new, compared to the known models.
- YeGoblynQueenne 4y agoThey seem to be uncorrelated with real-world physics. Whether they are "new" is anybody's guess. They're variables identified in a virtual environment, rather than the real world so there's very little chance they correspond to something in the real world, let alone physics, much less "new physics".
- a9h74j 4y agoI saw it commented somewhere that epicycles (of astronomical fame) are essentially additional terms in a Fourier series. I suppose anything nonlinear could invite multiple terms incidental to a particular local fit.
- coliveira 4y agoGood summary. There's no end to the kind of delusion some AI proponents will cling too. In a few days they'll say this is another proof we live in a simulation!