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We already substitute "good authority" (be it consensus or a talking head) for "empirical grounding" all the time. Faith in AI scientific overlords seems a trivial step from there.


Why shouldn't we?


We shouldn't because it isn't science. It's junk epistemology, relatively speaking.

We should because it's a cheap way of managing knowledge in our society.

So there's a tradeoff there.


IMHO authority has no place in knowledge preserving institutions. Generally authority instills more ruin than good.




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