On: GenAI and erroneous medical references

[tsimionescu]

> To be fair, this is also illogical, at least in a literal sense

Mostly in the same sense as arguments from induction are "illogical". Appeal to authority is essentially an inductive argument, and those are just as logical. Of course, they deal in probabilities rather than certainty, unlike deduction, but that doesn't make them illogical.

[zarathustreal → tsimionescu]

It does make it illogical, in the same way that “dealing in probabilities” makes many other things illogical. Like, for example, crime statistics.

[tsimionescu → zarathustreal]

All of physics, and science in general, is based on arguments from induction. If you want to call that illogical too, then, fair enough.