On Bullshit in Art and Data Science

Several reasons to be open-minded

Merzmensch
Towards Data Science
8 min readFeb 7, 2020

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Yes, exactly. You read it. Neither BS nor Bulls**t. Simply: Bullshit, or to be more precise, “pseudo-profound Bullshit”. This is not a profanity anymore, but a scientific term, at least after the paper “Bullshit makes the art grow profounder” (PDF, in the following, referred to as BSS) saw the light of day last November (in Judgment and Decision

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Futurist. AI-driven Dadaist. Living in Germany, loving Japan, AI, mysteries, books, and stuff. Writing since 2017 about creative use of AI.