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by rsynnott 717 days ago
I can't speak for them, obviously, but, argh, this AI bullshit is just getting so tedious. Like, the methodology described in the article is just _nonsense_.

> "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question"

Like, people have known this doesn't work since literally the First Industrial Revolution. And yet still we try asking the magic oracle to unbias our data.