The unreasonable effectiveness of irrational intelligence
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AI only started working once it stopped reasoning like a scientist and started learning like a tradition.
The unreasonable effectiveness of irrational intelligence AI only started working once it stopped reasoning like a scientist and started learning like a tradition. Andrew Trask(Oxford/OpenMined) May 31, 2026 6 Share The Jewish people were washing their hands thousands of years before germ theory. No-one had seen a germ, or could explain why ritually pouring water over your hands before a meal would keep you alive, it was just the practice. Each person did it because The Scriptures said so. Yet, the people who did it tended to fare better. By the standards of a certain kind of rationalist think
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