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IlyaShpitser comments on Starting University Advice Repository - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: Bryan-san 03 December 2015 11:51PM

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 04 December 2015 08:36:58PM *  0 points [-]

Single parameter models for anything complicated are shitty models. Intelligence is complicated. A single parameter model of intelligence is a shitty model.

Comment author: ChristianKl 04 December 2015 09:14:09PM 1 point [-]

Do you think it's shitty in the sense that what the EPA is doing with it is without basis?

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 04 December 2015 09:18:34PM -2 points [-]

I think I am done repeating myself.