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EP 192 David Krakauer on Science, Complexity and AI

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The Power of Neural Nets in Complexity Science

The complex world that we study is quite different from the physical world. And I think what neural nets will do for us if we use them in a kind of mercenary way is that they'll allow us to take slightly blastriconian averages, like I said. So we take them, we keep spasifying them, we mutilate their connections until we reach the absolute minimum that they can sustain as predictive engines and then take those users' course screenings in our theories. The question then is will society be tolerant of a pursuit that's not fundamentally utilitarian but about understanding the world we live in?

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