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News
Date
December 10, 2020

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Education

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causation, Correlation, Gary Smith, John Ioannidis, Logic, Michael Egnor, Robert J. Marks, Spurious Correlations (website), Tobacco}

Yellow Fingers Do Not Cause Lung Cancer

_{Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and computer engineer Bob Marks look at the ways Big Data can mislead us into mistaking incidental events for causes} _{News

December 10, 2020

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Education}

It’s easy to explain what “information” is if we don’t think much about it. But what if we ask a student, what does your term paper weigh? How much energy does it consume? More or less matter and energy than, say, lightning striking a tree? Of course, the student will protest, “But that’s not the point! It’s my term paper.” Exactly. So information is very different from matter and energy. It means something. Realizing that information is different from matter and energy can help us understand issues like the difference between the causes of a problem (causation) and circumstances that may be associated with the problem but do not cause it (correlation). In last week’s podcast, “Robert J. Marks on Read More ›

Smart car, Autonomous self-driving concept.

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Author
News
Date
July 21, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy

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___longform, Autonomous Vehicles, Bryan Mistele, David Lanza, driverless cars, John Gray, John Ioannidis, Matthew B. Crawford, Patrick Keeney, self-driving cars, Why We Drive (book)}

The Political Case Against Self-Driving Cars

_{An auto mechanic turned philosopher warns against ceding control of one’s destination to others, in the relentless pursuit of safety} _{News

July 21, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy}

Some worry about the role driverless cars might play in the next pandemic lockdown (there will be other pandemics and emergencies). David Lanza offers a thought-provoking scenario for these autonomous/self-driving vehicles: The production of driverless cars remains in its infancy, but if those cars ever become common, the government will have no problem locking us down on the slightest pretext. Driverless cars have no steering wheels and depend upon pre-programmed GPS coordinates to guide them (and us) to our destinations. Aside from entering a destination at the start of a trip, a driver has no way to direct the car. David Lanza, “Driverless Cars Will Make the Next Pandemic Crackdown Complete” at American Thinker The response to the COVID-19 crisis, Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks and Gary Smith
Date
December 26, 2019

Tagged
AI Delusion (book), Algorithm-of-the-Gaps, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Artificial Intelligence, Barack Obama, Big Data, Bill Clinton, Bob Dylan, Chamath Palihapitiya, Chinese Room, data analytics, Diederik Stapel, Douglas Hofstadter, Edward Leamer, Facial Recognition, Gary Smith, Hillary Clinton, IBM Watson, J. B. Rhine, John Ioannidis, John Searle, Neural networks, non-algorithmic, Oren Etzioni, Roger Schank, spurious correlations, stock market, Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies, The Winograd Schema Challenge, Zener cards}

Bingecast: Is Cheese Consumption Causing Deaths from Tangled Sheets?

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December 26, 2019

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Those dealing with data must always remember “If you torture data long enough, it will confess to anything.” The answers that computers give must themselves be questioned. Robert J. Marks and Gary Smith address artificial intelligence, spurious correlations, and data research on Mind Matters. Show Notes 01:34 | Introduction to Gary Smith, the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona Read More ›