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		fshbbdssbbgdd on Aug 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make... I don’t think the people who engineered the Golden Gate Bridge, Apollo 7, or the transistor would have succeeded if they didn’t have hope.

Terr_ on Aug 27, 2024 [–]

I think OP's point is that "hope" is never a substitute for "a battery of experiments on dependably constant phenomena and supported by strong statistical analysis."

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