Tag: Olivier Sibony

Clever black child thinking on chalkboard background with science formulas

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Erik J. Larson
Date
February 15, 2025

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Transhumanism

Tagged
Amos Tversky (1937–1006), Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), Chevalier de Méré, Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024), Featured, Grice’s maxims, John Kay, Linda Problem, Mervyn King, Michael Lewis, Noise: (Little Brown 2021), Olivier Sibony, Radical Uncertainty (Norton 2020), Richard Branson, Thinking Fast and Slow (FSG 2011), Undoing Project}

Why Humans Aren’t That Biased, and Machines Aren’t That Smart

_{Claims about the cognitive biases that supposedly overwhelm our judgment should be taken with a helping of salt} _{Erik J. Larson
February 15, 2025

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Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Transhumanism}

It’s no wonder that techno-futurists trumpet a coming machine intelligence with such ease — they’ve lowered the standards so much to begin with.