The value of a statement lies not so much in its accuracy (which is often ambiguous or subjective) but in its intellectual usefulness. An incorrect statement that leads to a profound question or to a more productive framing of a problem is more valuable than a trivial truth...
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See: any of the numerous times people cite statistics out of context and using it to justify completely false ideas.
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Put another way, statements don't have value; intelligence assigns value to statements according to their expected value for that action...
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I think generative discriminative processes are good examples of accuracy being less important than expected return.
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With the information overload, it is very difficult to tell the right from the wrong.
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“Ideas like that tend to not work.”
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