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A top-down aesthetic belief is what sustains a researcher when the experiments contradict them, because data alone cannot tell a wrong idea from a bug.
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- Ilya Sutskever Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc.
And then the top down belief is the thing that sustains you when the experiments contradict you. Because if you just trust the data all the time, well, sometimes you can be doing a correct thing, but there's a bug.
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