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Re:Big Data Is Dead by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @01:11PM (#34696548)
We totally are, it's just that rationality is a tool, not a guide. If you want to work out the truth, rationality will help you do that, but if instead you want to justify a decision you already made, well, it'll help you do that too.
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Re:Big Data Is Dead by galangalalgol on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @01:22PM (#34696748)
Hypothesis don't come from rationality either, they result from well informed intuition. All of the formality of science is about tricking ourselves into discovering our intuition is wrong using a rational series of steps even when everything in our nature is to use that ability to reason to do the opposite.
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