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Researcher In AI Responds To Criticisms
I received this thoughtful, and may I say highly accurate, email from reader EN, which I include in full below. I removed the age and name to protect EN's identity.…
Posted inPhilosophy
On Demonic Knowledge
Here is a thread worth discussing: https://twitter.com/helioslogos/status/1398766254677180422 The main points the gentleman makes are these: "All technology comes from demonic super-Intelligences, taught to humans to facilitate our destruction." "This knowledge…
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The Conceit of AI
It helps every time you hear "AI" to think "statistical model". Because, of course, that's what AI is. Statistical models layered with clever data processing, that is. Curve fitting. Saying…
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What The Covid Panic Did To Science
This was the speech I delivered on Saturday, 2 November 2025, at the True Grit Summit, held in Fort Smith, Arkansas. If and when the video becomes available, I'll post…
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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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Notes On AI Accuracy (Facial Recognition)
Here's a tweet (addressed to Judea Pearl), "If you could get rid of all the spurious non causal correlations in a machine-learning model, you would be left with only the…
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Un-Non-Change Changing Of The Guard — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
The purpose of war is either defense or conquest. Assuming the defense loses, the conqueror faces an immediate question. Which comes first, catechize, or commercialize? The history of man is…
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AI Is Kicking Statistics’s Ass
Here's the headline: "AI can predict when someone will die with unsettling accuracy: This isn't the first time experts have harnessed AI's predictive power for healthcare." Unsettling accuracy? Is accuracy…
