Scientific Method
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Chollet: Scaling genetic algorithms could automate scientific discovery
“If you try to scale up genetic algorithms, I mean, I'm sure you can do incredible things with that. You could, in fact, probably do new science. Because that's based on search, and search is the best fit for automating the scientific method.”
White: Existing LLMs Are Already Capable of Automating Much of Science
“We can actually automate so much of the scientific method, because it turns out, especially in a field like biology, which is very empirical limited, you know, the top one percent guesser of, you know, what they think will happen in experiment that, you know, …”
Kelly: AI is humanity's biggest invention since the scientific method
“This is by far our biggest invention after the scientific method”
Charles Koch: True scientific method means finding flaws, not confirming evidence
“This is from Karl Popper's Science is Falsification. A true scientific method Is developing a testable proposition, and not, not, not going around trying to find things supported, but find the flaw in it.”
Ferguson: US Education System Is Captured by Ideology Hostile to Science
“All of that's become much harder, because our educational system has been captured, now almost from the very bottom, from kindergarten to grad school, by an ideology which is profoundly hostile to the scientific method, and increasingly regards science itself …”
Roger Martin: Creative domains require creating causes, not analyzing past data
“Analyze data, collect as much data, analyze it rigorously to determine causes of effects in this other part of the world. Imagine possibilities and choose the one for which the most compelling argument can be made. And he said, the job of human beings in that …”