Tag: bias
Larry Sanger on Wikipedia, AI, and Preserving Human Knowledge
Discovery Institute is no stranger to bias on Wikipedia, of course. Look no further than the Wikipedia entry for intelligent design.
Replace Psychiatrists with AI?
“A Belgian man, after weeks of dialogues with his chatbot ‘confidante,’ committed suicide after it encouraged him to sacrifice himself for climate change.”
Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research: Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code
This study compared sequences of proteins in modern organisms to reconstruct ancestral proteins believed to reside in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA).
Why the Multiverse Theory Can’t Explain Away Cosmic Fine-Tuning
Many thoughtful people in science today would see the goal of science as explaining away both goal-directedness and thought.
Science Needs a Scout Mindset; Here’s Why
One advantage of the scout mindset is that it makes adjusting the confidence we have in our opinions more of a low-stakes enterprise.