On: How AI is unlocking ancient texts

[watt]

why wouldn't you prefer _something_ over _nothing_. I assume AI steps in for issues that people haven't been able to begin to solve in decades.

[Majestic121 → watt]

It's much better to have _nothing_ than the wrong _something_, since with a wrong _something_ you build assumptions on wrong premises. Much better to accept that we don't know (hopefully temporarily), so that people can keep looking into it instead of falsely believing the problem is solved

[davidclark → watt]

Absolutely prefer nothing here.

[throw4847285 → watt]

I bet Heinrich Schliemann would have loved AI.

[xenospn → watt]

That _something_ could be worse than nothing.