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Robin Hanson: How Global Elites Manufactured Stagnation and How We Escape

From the New World

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Is Machine Learning a Science or a Technology?

I definitely see this happening in academi im i have a massed background. A lot of the time is just using, like, very elementary methods. Most people in firms who think they want machine learning to solve a problem really just need to do regressions on cleaned up data. They just really need to clean up their data, sad and do some simple regressions, and that'll solve that'll be what they need. And, you know, te they mostly want to do the fancy techniques ecause that's what everybody's talking about and makes them look fancy,. right? There are people who are doing exactly the former, but a lot of thetime you actually don't need that

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