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hereforthensfwstuff t1_ivf92b1 wrote

Reply to comment by AllanfromWales1 in The big data delusion – the more data we have, the harder it is to find meaningful patterns in the world. by IAI_Admin

Right? We prefer to pray to the angry sky god. All this info is difficult.

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iiioiia t1_ivkghsq wrote

Most people seem to pray to The Science and The Democracy nowadays in my experience.

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hereforthensfwstuff t1_ivkskc1 wrote

It’s the best we can do, so far.

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iiioiia t1_ivkuvgo wrote

It is the best we have done, but is it the best we could have done?

And if we never ask ourselves such questions, and take them seriously, might it be possible that the best that we do do is always below what we could have done?

For some context: as a thought experiment, consider two streams of reality: the current one, versus one where the scientific method wasn't discovered, wasn't widely adopted, wasn't taken seriously, etc. Might there be a substantial difference between these two realities in the year 2022?

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