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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
October 24, 2021

Categorized
Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Relationships

Tagged
Altruism (concept replacing compassion), Compassion (evolutionary psychology view), Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith (book), Denis Noble, Evolutionary psychology, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan Haidt, Religion (evolutionary psychology view), William Hamilton}

Compassion and Religion: Darwin’s Unscratchable Itches

_{If one’s research is in a hole as deep as evolutionary psychology is when accounting for compassion, why not stop digging?} _{Denyse O'Leary

October 24, 2021

Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Relationships}

Last Sunday, I pointed to a chapter I wrote in The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos (2021) on evolutionary psychology, best understood as the psychology we have derived from our not-quite-human ancestors. “Not-quite-human ancestors”? Well, if you believe in conventional evolution theory at all, you must suppose that we have not-quite-human ancestors. Thus, to understand the origin of traits like giving to the Heart & Stroke Fund or subscribing to popular science magazines, we must get back to a point before any such institutions could have existed but there was some sort of dim potential. But we can’t really do that because, as noted last Sunday, there is no such…

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Author
News

Date
October 21, 2021

Categorized
Mathematics, Relationships, Social Media

Tagged
Ability (Dunning-Kruger effect), Alexander Danvers, David Dunning, Dunning-Kruger effect, Jonathan Jarry, Patrick McKnight, Psychology, Social psychology}

Tested!: Are the Least Expert People the Most Confident? No.

_{The claimed Dunning–Kruger effect in psychology is a very shakeable truth frequently exploited by online social bullies} _{News

October 21, 2021

Mathematics, Relationships, Social Media}

Have you ever been in an online discussion where a vocal proponent confidently claimed that his opponent was the victim of the dreaded “Dunning–Kruger” effect? At Vox, Brian Resnick explains, “That’s where people of low ability — let’s say, those who fail to answer logic puzzles correctly — tend to unduly overestimate their abilities”: An obvious example people have been using lately to describe the Dunning-Kruger effect is President Donald Trump, whose confidence and bluster never wavers, despite his weak interest in and understanding of policy matters. But you don’t need to look to Trump to find an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. You don’t even need to look at cable news. Brian Resnick, “An expert on human blind spots…

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Author
Eric Holloway

Date
October 12, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Relationships

Tagged
__featured, GPT-3 (and human language learning), GPT-3 (scale question), Language learning, Reborn dolls}

Is GPT-3 the “Reborn Doll” of Artificial Intelligence?

_{Unlike the reality doll collectors, GPT-3 engineers truly believe that scaling up the model size will suddenly cause GPT-3 to think and talk like a real human} _{Eric Holloway

October 12, 2021

Artificial Intelligence, Relationships}

There is a worldwide community that collects “reborn dolls.” These dolls look almost like real babies. Look again, closely, at the featured photo above… They help some collectors cope with the loss of a child. For others, it fulfills their sense of self image. And yet others just see them as a quirky hobby. Regardless of how much the baby dolls mimic the appearance of real dolls, the dolls will forever remain copies because the external appearances are not generated by biological processes. For the collectors, this is a feature, not a bug. They enjoy the appearance of a baby without the real life difficulties of raising a real person. As one collector comments, her doll “doesn’t turn into a…