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Tyler Cowen: uncertainty

1 Dec 2021 Conversations with Tyler Ruth Scurr on the Art of Biography

“Do you believe in machine learning? I don’t know. A computer says it’s the same style; take that as you wish.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Speaker
Tyler Cowen
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
1 Dec 2021
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…I’m not really on board with this idea, at all. Apart from finding it disturbing, I would need very, very strong proof to even start engaging with that. Is there any proof? Do you believe in machine learning? I don’t know. A computer says it’s the same style; take that as you wish. I’m going to be passing over that.…

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