Full Idea
If one adheres to an empiricist epistemology of science, one has no grounds to hold that data-hungry machines will not eventually be better scientists than human beings.
Gist of Idea
For empiricists, machines with huge data could become better scientists than humans
Source
Mazviita Chirimuuta (The Brain Abstracted [2024], 8.3.3)
A Reaction
This is if you think that the aims of science are entirely technological, and aim mainly at classification and prediction. But an empiricist can equally see the aim of science as full understanding, achieved via explanation.
Book Reference
Mazviita Chirimuuta: 'The Brain Abstracted' [MIT 2024], p.237