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> It’s also a fallacy to believe the sun will rise tomorrow.

No brother, it's science, and frankly that you believe this is not surprising to me at all.




You should study some philosophy of science. This stuff isn’t made up. Either you believe inductive reasoning works or you don’t. Philosophically it’s no more likely that the sun will rise tomorrow than it is that the trend of LLMs improving with parameter size continues. We are just prideful humans and tend to believe we are really sure about things.


Luckily, science doesn't give a fuck what philosophy thinks. Our models of the solar system and space in general are very thorough, well tested, and we even know the circumstances in which they break down. We can reliably make predictions about the future using these models, and with high confidence. These predictions, time and again, come correct. Newtons laws have only held for the entire time we've known them, including in locations that are billions of miles away and completely divorced in the time dimension from our own.

Philosophy is great and all, but Newton gives you raw numbers that are then verified by reality. I'm going to rely on that instead of untestable breathless "but ACTUALLY" from people who provide no actionable insight into the universe.


I think you have it backwards. The ordering goes:

Philosophy -> Math -> Physics -> Chemistry -> etc.

Everything to the right depends on, or is an application of, the discipline to the left. "Science" starts at physics.




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