Occasional inventor & applied epistemologist 😎 Imagining fascinating things and working to make them real
🍀 “It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.” 🍀 [John Hughlings Jackson, British neurologist (about a century ago)] via: The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman https://amzn.to/3BaXXo0 #medicine #errors #HalfLife #Facts #Errors #Misconceptions #ExpirationDate
Elan Moritz
2mo
This has a very serious implications re #AI #LLM #Hallucinations. “In 2008, Rong Tang looked at scholarly books in different fields and found the following half-lives" [Field: Half-life (in years)] - means even more as #frequent foundation model #retraining will be required to be #factual] #Physics : 13.07 #Economics : 9.38 #Math : 9.17 (note, this needs more studying) #Psychology : 7.15 #History : 7.13 #Religion : 8.76 via: The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman [Terry Bollinger] https://amzn.to/3BaXXo0.
Oh absolutely and we have adopted the same attitude to space medicine, and those that dare to challenge or introduce new ideas are often scorned. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer
Marcus Beaufort
2mo
Resounding repercussions, explains a lot. 😲
Tzvi Weitzner
2mo
Elan Moritz i.e. the truth about cholesterol? 🙄
Occasional inventor & applied epistemologist 😎 Imagining fascinating things and working to make them real
2mohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hughlings_Jackson. " one of only a few physicians to have delivered the Goulstonian (1869), Croonian (1884) and Lumleian(1890) lectures to the Royal College of Physicians. He also delivered the 1872 Hunterian Oration to the Hunterian Society...Jackson was one of the founders of the important journal Brain, which was dedicated to the interaction between experimental and clinical neurology (still being published today). Its inaugural issue was published in 1878." #Brain #Physician #Neurology #Neurologist