Tag: truth
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.
The War on 2 + 2 = 4
The people weighing in against 2 + 2 = 4 are not mathematicians but in education departments where they teach the teaching of mathematics.
Truth and Trust in Large Language Models
How much truth is ChatGPT or Gemini giving us? How much can we trust their answers to queries? As we’ll see, LLMs can lay no claim to truth.
PNAS Paper: “Scientific Censorship Appears to Be Increasing”
The intelligent design community is well aware of the problem. One section in the paper that categorizes types of persecution sounds alarmingly familiar.
Why Free Will Denial Is Self-Refuting
The only “scientific” basis for the denial of free will is determinism, the theory that every change in nature is determined prior to its occurrence.