Why “falsifiable” is being discussed
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> the author broke a social contract by probably putting less effort into writing this than I did reading it. I seriously doubt that. First, the author documented a substantial…
by nzealand · Sep 20, 2026
>I acknowledge that he has predicted some things in a falsifiable way and turned out correct, but this isn’t one of them. You’re reading hindsight into the text. I read that blo…
by famouswaffles · Sep 20, 2026
I’m not seeing anything like a falsifiable prediction that LLMs will write math proofs in that article. I see a thought experiment about giving GPT-2 “near-infinite training dat…
by sheafification · Sep 20, 2026
>We cant even verify if these fields are real though We can perform casual experiments that are falsifiable against them. This is the scientific definition of real within a prob…
by pixl97 · Sep 17, 2026
The claim is falsifiable; the bulk of 18th century math is "forgotten" in the sense that few, if any, people still use or apply or even know about it. It's not "forgotten" in th…
by rdbl27 · Sep 17, 2026
> Can "ASI will inevitably kill us all" be falsifiable before we create ASI? No, but there are decent proxies, like "Alice who is X standard deviations smarter than Bob will win…
by Kinrany · Sep 17, 2026
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