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vinceguidry • today at 3:28 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

You could have explained why he was wrong before injecting your opinions into the discussion.

He's wrong because the epistemological formula is the justified true belief. The infallible oracle simply gave Archimedes a true belief, the needed justification, sensors that can actually give meaning to the precise number, would take hundreds of years to develop. Archimedes would have to sit there with the oracle and develop modern physics together before the oracle can be said to have given him knowledge.

And AI won't have given us any actual knowledge until it can fit its findings into the mathematical establishment. I forget who it was that said that society doesn't know anything until you can teach it to a room-full of undergrads, but that's about right.

And you will have to actually show your intellectual work before your arguing here will actually accomplish your goal of sounding smart.