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#183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Balancing Truth-Seeking and Communication in Machine Learning

Exploring the nuances of L2 regularization in machine learning to prevent overfitting, emphasizing the importance of generalization and testing predictions on new data. Contrasting the paradigms of classic statistics and modern machine learning, the discussion touches on the challenges of communicating research findings and the primacy of truth-seeking in the scientific process.

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