Tag: Choice

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Richard W. Stevens
Date
May 2, 2024

Categorized
Economics

Tagged
Agency, Choice, economics, free will, Mental, money}

Economics Assumes Human Beings Have Free Will

_{Every waking moment we humans live out a constant fact underlying all economic science: we act.} _{Richard W. Stevens
May 2, 2024

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“Free will denial is a cornerstone of materialist–determinist ideology,” wrote Dr. Michael Egnor here in February 2024. The deniers say we are “purely physical machines, meat robots.” Dr. Egnor cited well-known people who have prominently denied humans have free will. Dr. Egnor challenged deniers to demonstrate through their own actions that they truly have no free will. They will fail for Dr. Egnor’s stated reasons, plus one more: economics. The science of economics describes the behaviors of individual humans as they pursue their lives. Economics has discovered certainties, such as the Law of Supply and Demand, that describe how people produce, consume, trade, save, invest, and anticipate the future. Economics succeeds because it grasps certain universal truths about free-will, non-material, Read More ›

Coding hologram, ai programming and dark background with chat machine, large language model or app. Big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence software on live web in technology abstract

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Gary Smith
Date
December 15, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Choice, Human intelligence, Law, LLMs}

Large Language Models are Still Smoke and Mirrors

_{Incapable of understanding, LLMs are good at giving bloated answers.} _{Gary Smith
December 15, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence}

I recently received an email invitation from Google to try Gemini Pro in Bard. There was an accompanying video demonstration of Bard’s powers, which I didn’t bother watching because of reports that a Gemini promotional video released a few days earlier had been faked. After TED organizer Chris Anderson watched the video, he tweeted, “I can’t stop thinking about the implications of this demo. Surely it’s not crazy to think that sometime next year, a fledgling Gemini 2.0 could attend a board meeting, read the briefing docs, look at the slides, listen to every one’s words, and make intelligent contributions to the issues debated? Now tell me. Wouldn’t that count as AGI?” Legendary software engineer Grady Booch replied, “That demo Read More ›

Divergence of directions. A wide path in the park is divided into two alleys leading in different directions in the rays of sunset.

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Michael Egnor
Date
November 9, 2023

Categorized
Free will

Tagged
Choice, free will, Reality, religion, science}

Why Free Will Denial is Self-Refuting

_{If free will deniers are right, their denial of free will is just a biological ink stain.} _{Michael Egnor
November 9, 2023

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Things that are wholly determined by the laws of physics and chemistry aren’t truth claims. They’re just spilled ink. Read More ›

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Winston Ewert
Date
October 30, 2018

Categorized
Social Factors

Tagged
Choice, Culture, ethics, History of Ideas, Technology}

Is Technology Neutral?

_{Or does it change our world whether we like it or not?} _{Winston Ewert
October 30, 2018

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Social Factors}

People tend to be one of two minds when it comes to technology. One group views technology as directional—altering those cultures it reaches. They construct plausible narratives about how this or that technology has changed our culture. The second group views technology as neutral. They dismiss the narrative put forward by the first group, explaining that such changes are due to forces within the culture, not to technology. Read More ›