Post #2360999
2026-05-10 07:24 UTC
Or to put it a different way: Why do we tolerate these claims? And even accept them as excuses? Or as a new normal?
> The dramatic irony here is [that companies and scientists] are willing to go on record saying they do not know how these models work @CyberneticForests@assemblag.es
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20071869
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@olivia@scholar.social 2026-05-10 07:29
Part of the answer is in this 💯 quote from Bryan Pfaffenberger: “Technology, in short, is a mystifying force of the first order[, ] suspending us in webs of significance that we ourselves create.” (p. 250) But there's nuance when it comes to "why" and ANNs... https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20071869 8/
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@mapto@masto.bg 2026-05-10 07:33
@olivia@scholar.social @CyberneticForests@assemblag.es Statement 3 is my favourite: similarity through obscurity. I don't understand A, I don't understand B, therefore A is similar to B. A fallacy that can't even be called logical.