"Policies for the People" is supposedly a place where MAGA can let off steam and be heard by the Trump Administration.
Not so certain about that but here goes... https://forum.policiesforpeople.com/t/reform-macrosociology-with-the-algorithmic-information-criterion-for-macrosocial-model-selection/25812 On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is worth noting that among the various models, DeepMind's model was > most prone to the specious pedantry -- entirely missing the point that > there is a difference between model generation and model selection. > > Google Strikes Again! > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> https://claude.ai/share/df6fdf28-b73b-48b7-9f5b-01b265e3748c >> >> Prompt: >> >> "Provide a counterfactual analysis of a history in which starting with >> the publication of Solomonoff's papers on inductive inference, it was >> recognized that approximating the Kolmogorov Complexity of a wide-ranging >> selection of longitudinal macrosocial measures was recognized by the NSF as >> the gold standard information criterion for selecting among candidate >> causal models of macrosocial dynamics, and paid out its funding for >> sociology only to those who decreased the size of the executable archive of >> that standardized dataset." >> >> Anyone with an information technology background that holds strong >> political opinions that can read this and still be tolerant of "the >> experts" to whom they defer, has no idea what information actually is. >> >> It's amazing how stupid people are when it comes to this topic. The >> arguments that inevitably come up time and time again are, when >> appropriately framed, specious pedantry so transparent that one is hard >> pressed to describe them as anything but obstructionist fear of truth. >> >> "CrimeStop" comes to mind: >> >> “Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at >> the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not >> grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of >> misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and >> of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of >> leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective >> stupidity.” >> -- George Orwell, 1984 >> ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T6e1019516c8638e9-M61e236fcfd6852cb3b58e279 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
