"Results Without Understanding" Is How LLMs Work—and Science Itself Is Changing
fkasummer · x · 2026-10-12
A philosophy-of-science thread: the quoted post notes the irony that "results without understanding" is exactly how deep learning and LLMs work—you burn billions in compute and get a machine weirdly good at open math problems, and nobody knows why. The author argues the real takeaway is that the nature of knowledge and scientific explanation is shifting radically: science itself is changing, and the rest is just babble from conflicting epistemic cultures.
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