Submitted by [deleted] t3_1065beb in singularity
petermobeter t1_j3f6xxm wrote
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i dunno…. a woman can study analytical philosophy all day, but when she gets in an argument with someone, and that someone uses a “logical fallacy” that she just finished reading about, what is she gonna do? tell them “actually u can’t say that cuz it’s a fallacy!” the other person isn’t gonna take it all back…. theyre just gonna double down on it even harder………….
when u say that an A.I. could prove or disprove the unfalsifiable….. do u mean that itll figure out a way to disprove something that we humans just hadnt thought of, and that we were wrong that it was unfalsifiable? or do u mean that itll work to prove something despite it being genuinely unfalsifiable? becuz the latter (putting big effort into confirming a hypothesis and zero effort into disproving it) is technically an example of “cargo cult science”. i mean, maybe it’s okay when a super-intelligent A.I. does it, idk
edit: sorry if im being rude. i hope im not bein condescendin. sorry
WikiSummarizerBot t1_j3f6zbp wrote
>Cargo cult science is a pseudoscientific method of research that favors evidence that confirms an assumed hypothesis. In contrast with the scientific method, there is no vigorous effort to disprove or delimit the hypothesis. The term cargo cult science was first used by physicist Richard Feynman during his 1974 commencement address at the California Institute of Technology. Cargo cults are religious practices that have appeared in many traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures.
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