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		throwaway4aday 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to th... Are you contending that every human derives their reasoning from first principals rather than being taught rules in a natural language?

eigenform 5 months ago [–]

I'm contending that, like any good tool, there is a context where it is useful, and a context where it is not (and that we are at a stage where everything looks suspiciously like a nail).

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