Episode 10.21: Does better understanding require greater complexity? Chatbots and “When in hole …”.

Our chatbot friends find it very hard to cancel what they have already suggested; they don’t understand “When in hope, stop digging”. Is some science the same? Does greater and greater “complexification” promise greater understanding? Or is there a bandwagon effect where everyone is scared lest they fall behind in the race to the next, most comprehensive theory, and nobody can find the vision or the courage to cry “halt!”