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More “Racist” AI: Blacks Pegged As Bigger “Haters” Than Whites
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More “Racist” AI: Blacks Pegged As Bigger “Haters” Than Whites

Ezra Klein, lead explainer over at Vox, needs to have direction of cause explained to him. He tweeted "leading AI models for processing hate speech were one-and-a-half times more likely…
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Dissed By Thunk Tank Climate Flacks In Nature Magazine
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Dissed By Thunk Tank Climate Flacks In Nature Magazine

I'm going to have to start charging you guys for reading this blog. For I am now a named person and known associate of top minds. Like Freeman Dyson. Yes,…
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Uploading Ourselves Into Machines Is Impossible
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Uploading Ourselves Into Machines Is Impossible

Turns out Marvin Minsky, the AI guy, was one of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. There is an interesting twist to this. The investigator (same as in the above link, from whom…
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The Best College (For Most) Is No College
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The Best College (For Most) Is No College

Most people do not use, and do not need to use, any form of mathematics higher than addition and subtraction, and in rarer cases in multiplying and dividing simple numbers.…
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That Study Claiming Religious Kids Are Less Altruistic That I Said Stinks Was Retracted
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That Study Claiming Religious Kids Are Less Altruistic That I Said Stinks Was Retracted

Long-time readers will recall the original criticisms of the paper "The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children's Altruism across the World" by Jean Decety, Jason M. Cowell, Kang Lee, Susan…
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Eat Soy, Save The Planet: Al Gore Update
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Eat Soy, Save The Planet: Al Gore Update

Eat Soy, Save The Planet. Save the planet from what and for whom we are never told. A climate with a slight increase in global mean temperature can't destroy the…
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When Does A Small Probability Mean Impossibility?
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When Does A Small Probability Mean Impossibility?

Question from reader Richard Stevens: A professional scientist, holding an MS in one of the hard sciences, addressed the argument that the probability of creating a protein or an enzyme…
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Reader Question: Sinking Feeling Organizational Psychology May Have Fundamental Flaws
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Reader Question: Sinking Feeling Organizational Psychology May Have Fundamental Flaws

From reader Paul comes this important question (I eliminated personal information to keep the reader's anonymity): I'm reading through your book, "Uncertainty" and while I enjoy the philosophical approach to…
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