What I find useful here is the recognition that the goal might not be measurement. The situation with generative modeling reminds me a little of predictive modeling c2010. Since the term of art was “classification,” we tended to assume that the goal was accurately assigning things to categories.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oogxmzmgauh5ug2tfe5vc7wm/post/3myzizefo522w
Ted Underwood
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