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mwkaufmatoday at 8:00 PM1 replyview on HN

Smokescreen of highly-contingent analysis and appeals to authority over a premotivated-conclusion.


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logicprogtoday at 8:09 PM

- Appeals to... what authority, exactly? My fucking wife? That's me a) being really proud I married such a baddie and b) explaining the process and where the ideas came from. Which people seemed to want. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, I guess.

- All analysis is contingent.

- How do you know the conclusion was premotivated, and does it matter if the analysis, which is attempting to be as objective and extremely reproducible as possible, holds up?

- The whole point is that there's no actual evidence for what you are claiming, so why does it being highly-contingent cause a problem for me, when that just further shows there's no evidence for what the anti-AI crowd is saying?

- Why do the anti-AI crowd get to state wide, absolute, objective claims with cherry-picked anecdotes as their only evidence, but the pro-AI crowd is not allowed to respond the same way, and when we then go out of our way to respond in a far more thorough, rigorous, and objective way than you ever did, that's just more evidence for our guilt? It's a Kafka trap. You can't win.

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