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The "scientific method" doesn't fix anymore than praying to Isis does. It's not the way science is done any way.
by tho234i2342334 2y ago
The "scientific method" doesn't fix anymore than praying to Isis does.
It's not the way science is done any way.
- DrScientist 2y agoDon't understand. How does doing real world experiments to test your hypothesis not help with the very common problem of being wrong? > It's not the way science is done any way. That's a very sweeping statement - especially since the scientific method is quite a catch-all phrase. In the end science is driven forward by new data, gathered either intentionally or incidentally. Self-driving cars can continue to learn because they are continually generating more data. Advertising algorithms can continue to learn and adapt as the campaigns they create are in effect experiments - and some are even well designed. I suppose large language models can continue to learn by chatting to humans - but they are potentially only learning how to please humans, not necessarily underlying truths.