Dr. Dembski wants us to use technology with wisdom. I share his broader goal, but not the use of generative AI chatbots to get there.
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One thing is for certain. In the iconic Dawn of Man sequence, the Monolith is conveying information. The question is how.
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People with disabilities know that. once assisted suicide becomes normalized, the categories of killable people will expand well beyond the terminally ill.
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Pundits and politicians alike are tempted by the idea that, if there are no higher powers or greater realities to answer to, they can force people to fulfil their visions with impunity.
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When you prompt an LLM, the entire conversation acts as a prompt driving the reply. Thus your prompt can push the LLM in unforeseen, unintended directions.
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Recently, talk of a bubble has increased as it has become clear that OpenAI, and likely other AI software companies, may never become profitable.
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The government spokesperson claims that the bill is “neutral” and consequently, “Quebecers are free.” To the contrary. The bill would impose intolerant secular values on all residents in the public square.
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Simply put, there is no gradualistic pathway to explain penguins…or cetaceans, or bats, or marine iguanas, etc., or almost anything else, as Behe made clear.
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Part of the trick to solving Monday Microsofty 56 is to decide whether or not to give it a high five.
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In addition to imprisoning the operators of these criminal conspiracies, we should pass laws explicitly making it a crime to purchase organs from overseas
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Letting the question of who sent the monolith remain a mystery was probably a wise dramatic choice on the part of the writers.
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On the cover of the magazine issue, tech giants including Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg are pictured sitting on a construction beam.
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This sort of thinking assumes that modern people are no longer intelligent enough to do the things that former generations easily managed.
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If you suspected that last week’s talk of baseball was just a distraction from the real puzzle hint, now you can find out.
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The greatest measure of a film’s success is the test of time. Something about this film works even though it breaks conventions.
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For those familiar with the novel Brave New World, this distracted, dopamine-addled brand of a society was all but predicted almost a century ago.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, you don’t need to know the distance. Check the problem again for the number you do need to know.
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Escalation is where the Terminator franchise went wrong. The writers kept enlarging their world until it became contradictory.
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Shermer told Mind Matters News after the event that he would bump up his credence in the existence of souls from 1% to 2% out of 99%.
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Chatbots aren’t necessities. Meanwhile, long-esteemed laws and rules of conduct forbade slander and libel because they can seriously harm people.
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