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This is an excellent essay on our tendency to confuse language with intelligence: https://karawynn.substack.com/p/language-is-a-poor-heuristic-for
Nine Lives · Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence
@pettter Excellent is an understatement.
I was particularly struck by this thought:
"You’re basically just shaking the Magic 8 Ball over again until (if you haven’t gotten frustrated and quit first) it randomly serves up an answer you like, at which point you stop asking."
Ultimately (and as many people have already pointed out) this will lead to a wish-wash of regress-to-the-mean model that is no better than a horoscope oracle.