| ▲ | vmendi 4 hours ago | |
This. I believe most people don't act as if objective reality matters, hence their worldview can be arbitrarily aligned to the demands of their social context. Suppose these two premises are true: 1. Objective reality exists. 2. There's a model and corpus of data that converges to approximate reality better than any other model. Now, suppose we train different models with data sources restricted to different tribes/ ideologies/worldviews. Can we discover how their internal representations differ from each other, and from objective reality? What would we do with that knowledge? | ||
| ▲ | schiffern an hour ago | parent [-] | |
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... | ||