I’m not a huge fan of the way you imply that it was chosen for rhetorical purposes.
To be clear, I’m not alleging mal-intent or anything. I’m more pointing out memetic dynamics. The situation can look as innocent as “You genuinely believe X, and think it’s important for people to get X, and so you iterate over explanations until you find an effective one.” And maybe that explanation just happens to involve analogizing that ML “selects for low loss.”
Without commenting on the rest for now—
To be clear, I’m not alleging mal-intent or anything. I’m more pointing out memetic dynamics. The situation can look as innocent as “You genuinely believe X, and think it’s important for people to get X, and so you iterate over explanations until you find an effective one.” And maybe that explanation just happens to involve analogizing that ML “selects for low loss.”