@fourbeerspod on the gap between what an experiment did and the verbal explanation given for it.
This is a pervasive problem in most sciences, and more serious than the replication crisis. Even if your facts are right, what do they actually imply?https://fireside.fm/s/Ah1OZyuo+AilLHx9D …
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Wild claims for AI that do not follow from an experiment are the one thing that trigger me into irrational sputtering hostility on twitter.
@fourbeerspod episode helped me understand why I get so annoyed by “AlphaGo models human intuition.” https://meaningness.com/metablog/artificial-intelligence-progress …pic.twitter.com/SH5DiRL5dS
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A dishwasher! You invented a dishwasher! Very nice! Now PLEASE stop suggesting household robots are imminent! https://meaningness.com/metablog/artificial-intelligence-progress …pic.twitter.com/01kiTYIaqc
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You found another cure for cancer IN (some) MICE! Very nice… almost everything either causes or cures cancer in (laboratory) mice, they are incredibly fragile… what did this one mean? How do you know? (Also see: omg, AI, IN MICE!)https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice/status/1219695194179682304 …
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Replying to @Meaningness @fourbeerspod
By the by, Bret Weinstein has an alarming theory about this: lab suppliers bred mice that are remarkably fit when young and then all die of cancer.
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Yes I’ve gathered the basic story from summaries but not yet had time to listen to his podcast. It’s been known for a long time (I think I remember?) that lab mice often don’t give same results as wild type, though.
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Has there been concern that the differences might disqualify lab mice for use as a preliminary screen for humans?
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I don’t know. I vaguely think so but this is WAY out of my expertise. Random sorta-connection: my girlfriend in grad school worked for Theresa Imanishi-Kari giving cancer to mice. Based on what she said about her, I was unsurprised by… subsequent events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thereza_Imanishi-Kari …
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