Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Theory-free inference is a hell of a drug. For years, Big Data advocates - the larval ...
Theory-free inference is a hell of a drug. For years, Big Data advocates - the larval form of today's AI weirdos - have insisted that if you have enough data, you can infer causal relationships between complex phenomena without ever having to understand how x causes y, and thus, we can slay the dread "correlation is not causation" beast.
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