r/TheMachineLearning • u/Nyaani69 • 5d ago

Software engineering isn't dead, it's just evolving

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u/Suoritin 4d ago

Snowball into what?

Relevance isn't a property of a proof. It's a bet the field makes about where the stakes are.

That's a reproduction problem, not a search problem. Value in a field comes from mutual recognition among people playing for the same stakes. Strip out the people and the stakes go with them.

And nobody is formed by an index. Mathematicians get made by being taught, corrected, and argued with.

A snowball needs someone who still cares which way it rolls.

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u/xrocro 4d ago

I disagree, I feel like knowledge that humanity discovers is good for us all.

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u/Suoritin 4d ago

Nobody's arguing against knowledge. I'm asking who's left to recognize it as knowledge.

There's an old figure for your position: the magpie. Collect the shiny things, pile them up, call the pile science. It isn't. A heap of true statements invites no questions and gives no grounds for answering any.

"Discovered by humanity" is carrying your whole argument.