Re:AI beats human sleuth at finding problematic images in re...
by jltsiren on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:38PM
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> The only person who needs to defer to an authority reflexively is someone who is completely ignorant of science. They don’t have the sophistication to judge, but thinking that this extends to sophisticated actors is an error. Consensus is for the ignorant.
This is where we disagree. The ignorant believe in their ability to judge. The deeper your expertise gets, the narrower the scope where you trust your judgment becomes. Because you have seen so many ways things can go subtly wrong. And because you have already been confidently wrong so many times.
Re:AI beats human sleuth at finding problematic images in re...
by brutusborn on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:44PM
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I don’t understand how we disagree? The expert has more confidence in their field and thus can more safely reject the consensus than the ignorant.
The consensus might be correct more of the time, but that shouldn’t be a scientific reason to follow the consensus. You should follow the consensus because you have some empirical reason to agree with it and disagree with it if you have reason to believe a better theory.
The only person who needs to defer to an authority reflexively is someone who is completely ignorant of science. They don’t have the sophistication to judge, but thinking that this extends to sophisticated actors is an error. Consensus is for the ignorant.