batavian

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   by batavian 5y ago

   It doesn't really even sound sci-fi, or rather, it would make for some bad sci-fi. What we are at risk of, is having deterministic model artifacts trigger complex unintended consequences from being fetishized as decision-making agents.
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   by batavian 5y ago

   The former is a superset of the latter. Companies are political entities. At the most obvious level they are legal entities, and law is politics. But the mistake here (and some other comments) of drawing "lawmakers", "politic
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   by batavian 5y ago

   Many things that are deemed socially uncomfortable are a part of the same board on which the socially comfortable game is played. Moreover, the vast majority of examples one can come up in science are not truths, and in fact a core premise
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   by batavian 6y ago

   > what does "a truth we can't empirically prove" look like? Law of causation, Doomsday argument, complex processes that can't be recreated, historical processes which leave faint empirical markers, etc.