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Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by adastra22 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:22AM (#45665844)
I think we have a fundamental disagreement here. There is no bias in the statement "2 + 2 = 4". Nor is there bias in stating that "any two masses experience an attraction force proportional to the masses and inverse-square proportional to the distance separating them." Not less bias -- no bias.
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Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by imtringued on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @04:20AM (#45666214)
There is a pretty strong bias in the statement "2 + 2 = 4" because math doesn't care about the encoding used to describe a sum. For example, in an alternative society the expression could be written with flipped number symbols, right to left or in a vertical layout. Axioms are also a form of bias.
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Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by adastra22 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:27PM (#45671566)
Definitely disagree.
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Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by int_19h on Thursday October 23, 2025 @12:12AM (#45678100)
Axioms would only be a form of bias if they were taken at random. It's not biased to take the axiom that repeatedly holds true in empiric testing, over others that do not.
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Re:Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summar... by adastra22 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:49PM (#45756240)
Well, it is a bias. It’s a bias towards truth :)
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