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schiffern • yesterday at 7:22 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

  >There's a model and corpus of data that converges to approximate reality better than any other model.
How you define "better" exactly is where you smuggle in your messy human value judgements.

I say "better" models are ones which more efficiently convert the entire world to my particular brand of evangelical Christianity. And who are you to say otherwise??? :-/

"No no, I mean accurate not better." Sure. And your model inaccurately denies the existence of Yahweh...


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UltraSane • today at 2:22 AM

Better means smaller gap with reality. Science works because it is basically a negative feedback control loop to minimize this gap.

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