• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    We should act on the best model we have, but that is very far from claiming knowledge and true certainty.

    Prove that we should do that.

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      15 hours ago

      This way leads to brain in a vat theory and the impossibility of knowing if other beings has consciousness

      It’s a simple tautology that following the best model has the highest chance of success in achieving the goal you modeled. The real difficulty is in figuring which that model is, thus the scientific method

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Prove that we should do that.

      You’re currently typing on a machine that came from this method. Although maybe that’s not quite the support I thought I was…