The title makes me disinclined to read the whole paper. But I guess that's AI destroying institutions. Sigh. Social science != science.

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PlatoIsADisease 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you really want to traumatize yourself, learn about Scientific Realism vs Instrumentalism. (And further reading, Early Wittgenstein, but know you are only going to understand 10% of it, but that's okay, everyone only understands 10% of it)

If you want to further freak yourself out about probability look up Bertrand's Paradox and The Problem of Priors.

Yes Social Science is less accurate than what people call hard science, but the edges of scientific systems should concern yourself of validity of even hard science. Its pragmatically useful, yes, but metaphysical Truth? No.

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wendgeabos 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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wavefunction 4 hours ago | parent [-]

complaining about being downvoted is discouraged here tomorrow is another day

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PaulHoule 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Funny I find that "opinions like this always get downvoted" can suppress downvotes! On the other hand if you are overflowing with karma what is an occasional -11?

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squeefers 4 hours ago | parent [-]

HN sell the comments to data brokers and get less money if it contains toxicity because they have to manually filter it out. thats why theyre hot on moderation now. where can i go to express non-happy thoughts these days?

	▲	PaulHoule 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Bluesky, X, ... Toxic is toxic.