Psychopharmacology is a great example of “doesn’t reliably work” as their products have serious and even disastrous side effects at times — including SSRIs triggering violent acts and suicides.

Again, my exact point is that mathematics loses its utility when you reduce it to that inaccurate usage. You no longer can have any faith in the conclusions — just like sometimes psychiatrists kill their patients with an SSRI prescription because they don’t understand the drugs.

> Would the high priestess of human reason pass her divining rod over such chips or life-saving drugs and reject it as the work of the AI devil?

My point is you can’t know if you’re turning it over for life saving drugs or poison, if you don’t understand what you’re getting.