4 Quotes Tagged: unscientific

Notice that the story [of technical progress accelerating indefinitely] is not testable; we just have to wait around and see. If the predicted year of true AI's coming is false, too, another one can be forecast, a few decades into the future. AI in this sense is unfalsifiable and thus — according to the accepted rules of the scientific method — unscientific.

He explained that the leaf had fallen over and over from that same tree so I would stop trying to understand.

Кого можно назвать самым смелым? Пожалуй, крохотную бабочку, которая подвергается тем же атмосферным условиям, как и лев.

IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.