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As Descartes's Advocate, let me just state what a pleasure it is to see the best of the Logos's Advocates falling prey to the seductive trap laid by my Master In that Hell Devoid of Telos!
The trap?
The strawmen ("statisticians") with which my Master has populated the ranks of Specification Curve Analysts!
Oh, but it gets better! There is a…
As Descartes's Advocate, let me just state what a pleasure it is to see the best of the Logos's Advocates falling prey to the seductive trap laid by my Master In that Hell Devoid of Telos!
The trap?
The strawmen ("statisticians") with which my Master has populated the ranks of Specification Curve Analysts!
Oh, but it gets better! There is another Ring of Hell encompassing the Ring of Strawmen:
Denial of Algorithmic Information Theory's formalization of Ockham's Razor!
We shall not go into the depths of sophistry involved in this denial, hence the Algorithmic Information Criterion for CAUSAL model selection -- at least not here and now. See Hume's Guillotine and the NiNOR Complexity alternative to Kolmogorov Complexity for the debunking of that sophistry.
No, what stalks our haplessly heroic critic of Specification Curve Analysis is the emergence of a Postmodernist demon from pseudo-telos who, posing as a Specification Curve Analyst, does the following:
1) Looks at the standard dataset provided to all Specification Curve Analysts with their arbitrarily large number of "methods".
2) Constructs a computer program that spits out the standard dataset.
3) Challenges any other Specification Curve Analyst to come up with a smaller such computer program.
4) Places our haplessly heroic defender of Telos hence Logos in league with the Postmodernist pseud-Telos "statisticians" in setting forth the standard "gotchas" regarding Algorithmic Information Theory (hence Algorithmic Probability, Solomonoff Induction, etc.) -- all of which are ALREADY laid to rest by none other than this Descartes's Advocate:
https://github.com/jabowery/HumesGuillotine
&
https://groups.google.com/g/ait0/c/D1wd2fV6Ax4/m/zJLCmh00BAAJ
Our haplessly heroic advocate of Telos will then find himself mired in yet another ring of Hell Devoid of Telos!
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
PS: I'm a mole who has infiltrated that ring of the Hell Devoid of Telos. But don't tell the other demons.