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Re:The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI by idiotsecant on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:22PM (#34250118)
The statistically correct answer is not necessarily the true one (if there is such a thing as 'truth'). Many people can believe something to be true, and if I query those people i can calculate which answer is statistically correct. That's the 'wisdom of the crowd'.
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Re:The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI by p0pcult on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:33PM (#34250248)
Calling a flat earth or a geocentric universe "statistically correct" at past historical points is really inane, don't you think? In doing so, you abuse the notion of what statistics is supposed to represent, which is, generally, a statement of an estimate (and/or distribution), as well as the precision of that statement. Since "correct" is binary, it carries an implied precision of 100%, which renders the notion of "statistically correct" is pretty absurd.
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Re:The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI by nradov on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:12PM (#34250766)
The "wisdom of crowds" is mostly bullshit. It works fine for trivial things like estimating the number of beans in a jar. So what. It completely fails for anything requiring deep expertise.
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Re:The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI by p0pcult on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:32PM (#34252872)
Seems like this is what you get when you have programmers try to be statisticians, I suppose.

"Statistically correct" gobbledygook that signifies nothing.

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