Objection Posts
19 posts tagged objection from the Michael Darius Eastwood research blog. See also the Objections And Rebuttals topic hub.
- 'The 78 per cent figure is misleading.' The RL-training condition, explained properly.
- 'AI wrote this.' The evidence chain does not depend on the drafting method.
- 'Books are not science.' Correct. Here is what the book is doing on the evidence page.
- 'You changed your numbers.' Yes. Publicly, with an audit trail, and it is the system working.
- 'You cherry-picked the convergences.' The register rules and the quarantine list.
- 'Correlation is not causation.' The register does not claim causation. That is the point.
- 'Everyone knew AI was risky in 2024.' Fine. Show me the document.
- 'Hardware ethics is impossible.' The industry disagrees, on the record.
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- 'Why not just publish in a journal?' The economics of independent submission, and the arXiv path in progress.
- 'The neurodivergence angle is special pleading.' Read the PNAS Nexus paper, then say that again.
- 'You are not peer reviewed.' Correct. Here is what the record offers instead, and its limits.
- 'The Pope did not read your book.' Correct. Nobody claimed he did.
- 'You cite yourself.' Self-citation and self-verification are different things.
- 'A self-email proves nothing.' What a Gmail server timestamp actually establishes.
- 'Sharma and Chopra were first.' Yes. The register says so in bold.
- 'The timeline is coincidence.' What probability arguments can and cannot show.
- 'Undecidability proofs prove too much.' What the Trilemma forecloses, and what it leaves open.
- 'The convergences are just the zeitgeist.' What the zeitgeist explains, and what it does not.