Researcher: eigenism's unweighted structure can justify any conclusion
davidmanheim · x · 2026-09-20
Risk researcher David Manheim pushes back on eigenism: the philosophy is essentially agnostic about the weights, making no commitments that can be pinned down—since there exist weight assignments that admit basically any conclusion, it evades falsifiable claims.
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