viii, 298 p. : 24 cm; "This volume emerged from workshops held at Pennsylvania State University in 2003 and Stanford University in 2005"--P. vii; Includes bibliographical references and index
Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980)
Rochester Institute of Technology, via Wikimedia Commons In 1980, scientist and writer Isaac Asimov argued in an essay that 'there is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.' That year, the Republican Party stood at the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, which initiated a decades-long conservative groundswell.
The Use of Knowledge in (AGI) Society
How to build to break the intelligence curse
Ignorance got a bad rap
One of the best skills to develop as an entrepreneur? Ignorance. I think a lot of folks are spending way too much energy trying to know it all. They’re trying to be over-informed. Soaking up every …
Du privilège exorbitant à l’ignorance invincible
traduction française du billet de blog "From exorbitant privilege to invincible ignorance" de Paul Krugman
Curse of knowledge
The curse of knowledge, also called the curse of expertise[1] or expert's curse, is a cognitive bias that occurs when a person who has specialized knowledge assumes that others share in that knowledge.[2]
DeepSeek
DeepSeek, unravel the mystery of AGI with curiosity. Answer the essential question with long-termism.
Believing what we do not believe: Acquiescence to superstitious beliefs and other powerful intuitions.
Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion
Understanding Without Defectiveness:
Why Autistic Self-Ignorance Is Interference, Not Failure
Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism
In recent times, relativist and constructivist conceptions of truth and knowledge have become orthodoxy in vast stretches of the academic world. In this unique volume, Paul Boghossian critically examines such views and exposes their fundamental flaws. This short, lucid, witty book shows that philosophy provides rock-solid support for common sense against the relativists; it is provocative reading throughout the discipline and beyond.
annotations: Malédiction des ressources naturelles et institutions : soyons plus précis !
traduction française du billet de blog "Resource Curse and Institutions: Getting more specific" de Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson
When we lose shared experiences, we lose humanity Isolationism is the number one issue Isolationism leads to ignorance, ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate
Sam Clemente
People are biking by and slowing down as they pass, others walking by stop for a moment to listen, the kids are running around while a big family sits down to dinner The people in cars are oblivious to the purest human experience happening as they drive by
I am disappointed by the fact that so many seem tempted to share a "nonrigorous", unserious attempt at quantifying fraud in science because it passes some silly vibe check ("I asked others and they agree"). So in the name of good science, we're ready to produce bad science as a rhetorical tool.
Excuse me but this is cult behavior. And as a scientist, I have no business joining a cult. These personalized insults and intolerance for criticism are not scholarly virtues however you cut it. I do not understand or relate to it. What is my worth as a scholar if I do not value evidence over faith?
There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/activity/10.21203/rs… ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/report/short-dialog…
Der Fisher
Unpopular opinion: LLMs are generally deradicalizing people whose beliefs are based on pure propaganda. I've been watching this happen slowly with some people I care about. ChatGPT is one of the reasons they finally accept that the NRA, OAN, and NewsMax are lying to them.
