By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026But everything exciting in the future is stuff we don't understand yet. The surprising functionality of theory-free AI is itself an example of this. 1223
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026The most interesting and valuable thing about theory-free AI isn't what it can do, it's the systematic mapping of the statistically regular parts of reality, whose inverse provides a map of the irregular, surprising, poorly understood (and thus exciting and promising) phenomena in our universe. 1313
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026Tomorrow's breakthroughs and fortunes lie not in merely operationalizing these causal relationships: they lie in *understanding* them. The point of theory-free inference is to give us the tools to replace that theory-freeness with testable, validated understanding. eof/ 1445
