The saddest part is watching friends and colleagues who i previously considered healthily skeptical and rigorous thinkers now "blown away" by promotional videos, drinking the kool aid. Yes it is amazing. No I don't believe everything it comes up with. Why would we?
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Same stuff, different day --- real "truth" or "understanding" simply can't be obtained from a statistical model in any sort of reliable manner.
As my professors used to say back in college, this should be intuitively obvious.
The saddest part is watching friends and colleagues who i previously considered healthily skeptical and rigorous thinkers now "blown away" by promotional videos, drinking the kool aid. Yes it is amazing. No I don't believe everything it comes up with. Why would we?