It depends on the context of the prediction, the utility of the prediction, and the cost of not having a quality model. I don’t think sharing or a notion of an agent plurality is needed for all use cases. An objective model needn’t be deeply explanatory if it is fit to purpose; a black box model can still be objective.
From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Steve Smith <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, August 30, 2026 at 11:03 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Subjectivity as a spectrum On 8/30/26 10:00 am, Marcus Daniels wrote: Agreed-upon -> model that makes predictions that can be observed and repeated. No human social system need be involved in that. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/anthropics-new-hardware-standard-lets-ai-agents-control-the-physical-world/ <https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/anthropics-new-hardware-standard-lets-ai-agents-control-the-physical-world/> shared by whom, repeated by whom, and how are predictions compared and verified and by what principles? <ducking incoming shoes> But as I hope I conceded to EricS, I *can* invert the whole thing and (by faith) declare objectivity to be the fundament and everything else rubbings and shadows and derived therefrom. This is where my earliest linguistic training by my parents and peers steers me, not to mention a modest education in scientific and generally western thought and a lifetime of practice. So why invert it as I have (contingently? provocatively?) <more shoes>
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