• zod000@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Fuck, I really hate to agree with Elon on anything, but that is a ridiculous argument. LeCun must also really believe that trees only fall in the woods when someone is around to see it happen.

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      5 months ago

      Science is strictly a social activity. You can’t have a social activity without the social component.

      Again, fact-finding is not the same as science.

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      5 months ago

      Science is just the process of testing things in the world in a reproducible way.

      LeCun’s argument is good career advice (you only get credit for what others know you did), but it’s not factual correct.

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      5 months ago

      Also how transparently published and reproduced was Pfizer’s vaccine trials, considering a judge had to force the contents released, yet it was science right away. You can’t have cake and eat too.