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by yummypaint 1305 days ago
Not being able to difinitively identify truth is different from not attempting to identify it.
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Attempting to identify truth is called the scientific method.
The problem is that Galactica spits out obvious nonsense while being completely unaware of that. Okay, the real problem is that it also spits out nonobvious nonsense, where the human reader may also be unaware of it, along with Galactica. The only thing it does reasonably well is to generate text that sounds plausible in tone and form.
Science can't identify the truth. It can only identify what is NOT true. As our knowledge expands, we get closer to discovering the truth; but we can never be sure we've arrived.
Science can also not identify falsehoods, it can only shift confidence.
There’s still an asymmetry in that a single counterexample can destroy a theory.