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It is not pseudoscience. Have you read about how it works?
by porridgeraisin 18d ago
It is not pseudoscience. Have you read about how it works?
- estearum 18d agoYes, quite a bit actually. It's directly analogous to e.g. "Red sky at night, sailors' delight", i.e. a pseudo-scientific approach that probably has a better-than-random success rate.
- robotresearcher 18d agoSo it’s a heuristic. Lots of very valuable heuristics exist.
- estearum 18d agoNone of which is authoritative, per my initial comment.
- Tostino 18d agoAnd I'd agree if that's what GP said.
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- robotresearcher 18d agoWhat name do you use for an approach that probably gets a better than random success rate (without guaranteeing that)? I’m leaving out the ‘pseudo-scientific’ part of GP’s description, since it doesn’t entail anything technically.
- Tostino 18d agoI was talking about the root comment that just said "it's AI because this website said so", not the one about treating it like a heuristic. I agree with that.