Tag: Roger Penrose
Hype and Fearmongering About Artificial Intelligence Passes Its Sell-By Date
The attribution of superpowers to coming generations of AI machines has entered self-parody territory.
Post-Modern Science: The Illusion of Consciousness Sees Through Itself
“It’s quite plausible” is treated as equivalent to evidence, eliding the question of how exactly we come to “consciously believe” anything.
Roger Penrose on Cosmic Fine-Tuning: “Incredible Precision in the Organization of the Initial Universe”
I have no reason to believe that the acclaimed physicist Roger Penrose supports intelligent design. But he’s definitely not afraid to take on critics of the argument for fine-tuning. In the video below, he explains that the fine-tuning of the initial entropy of the universe is this precise: