| ▲ | slt2021 8 days ago | |
>LLMs will never manage to deal time to prove hypothesis: infinity years | ||
| ▲ | bootsmann 7 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
The whole of modern science is based on the idea that we can never prove a theory about the world to be true, but that we can provide experiments which allow us to show that some theories are closer to the truth than others. | ||
| ▲ | eru 8 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Eh, if the hypothesis remains unfalsified for longer and longer, we can have increased confidence. Similar, Newton's laws say that bodies always stay at rest unless acted upon by a force. Strictly speaking, if a billiard ball jumps up without cause tomorrow that would disprove Newton. So we'd have to wait an infinite amount of time to prove Newton right. However no one has to wait so long, and we found ways to express how Newton's ideas are _better_ than those of Aristotle without waiting an eternity. | ||