Interesting and Telling Effect(s)
"AI" can go nowhere new and useful without the guidance of human intelligence
Since I started this Grundvilk writing exercise, I’ve found it extremely interesting to watch which of my former Linked-In professional connections bailed out of Grundvilk (i.e., cancelled their free subscription) in immediate reaction to the subject matter and content of my quite variable posts. I lost quite a few millenials when talking about the importance of marriage in the human maturation process, for example. Conservative-leaning posts generally lost me lots of young professionals — especially those in the Canadian mining industry.
As time went on, however, free subscriber desertions slowed down to very light trickle that was almost compensated for by the occasional voluntary free subscription from the great outside.
Interestingly, the Modest Proposal post lost me two (but only two!) longtime, otherwise faithful subscribers who just happened to have exploration geochemical/geological backgrounds much like mine. Given their common backgrounds, I speculate they both left so suddenly and unexpectedly because they found the prediction power of the geological theory-based, multi-element linear regression work I reported in that post wholly unbelievable. One fellow in particular has been trying to accomplish the same thing as I claim doing using the brute, unthinking strength of Big Data AI. If he’s not been also incorporating ore deposit formation and geochemical theory into his efforts, I can well understand why my apparent success at our commonly held goal might seem entirely impossible and specious to him. So-called “AI” can go nowhere new and useful, however, without the active guidance of human intelligence — and without holding to theory previously painstakingly established by human science.
What I find interesting is that many people are "leaving" because of conservative-leaning opinions. It took me years of frustration to finally drop my subscriptions to my local daily (strong left-leaning) and The Economist. I sent both of them so many emails that my fingers were tired.
I agree with your thoughts regarding geochemical modelling and AI. Take good care of yourself and family.