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Looks like science is out, black box prediction is in. It's like the era of epicycles all over again. Oh well. Fellow realists, see you all 1500 years from now
by YeGoblynQueenne 2y ago
Looks like science is out, black box prediction is in. It's like the era of epicycles all over again.
Oh well. Fellow realists, see you all 1500 years from now!
- pelorat 2y agoThere are things so complex in science that a human mind can never understand them, but a large neural network can.
- outworlder 2y agoFor some definition of 'understanding'.
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoConjecture, that. Even if true I think it will be very hard to find any definition of science along the lines of "training deep neural nets to do the understanding in our stead".
- bonoboTP 2y agoIt was big blind luck that the laws of planetary motion turned out to be so simple. There's no reason to think that protein folding can similarly be reduced to some elegant description without needing large blackbox models.
- ayakang31415 2y agoScience is just a methodology to test hypothesis. It does not matter how you get the result as long as the result is empirically scrutinized.
- tim333 2y agoDunno. It's a tool to try to figure the shape of molecules in a similar way that a cryo-electron microscope is a tool for that. Not the end of science imho.