#statstab #525 What Good Is a Regression? Inference to the Best Explanation and the Practice of Political Science Research
Thoughts: It's interesting to see how other fields consider the problem of knowledge generation
Fantastic article schematizing the philosophical issues at the heart of the AI culture wars, from one of the most incisive contemporary philosophers I've come across to date.
"Geist in the Machine" at Aeon:
https://aeon.co/essays/if-we-hope-to-build-artificial-souls-where-should-we-start
Computational functionalism dominates current debates on AI consciousness. This is the hypothesis that subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology, regardless of the underlying physical substrate. We argue this view ...
Zwei Formen von „Intelligenz“:
Menschen urteilen über Wahrnehmung, Erfahrung, Emotion und Reflexion.
LLMs über Tokenisierung, Mustererkennung und Statistik.
Die Ergebnisse können ähnlich wirken.
Die Prozesse sind fundamental verschieden.
Die entscheidende Frage ist nicht:
Sind sie intelligent?
Sondern:
Welche Art von Intelligenz delegieren wir gerade.
Und: Verlieren wir dabei unsere eigene Urteilskraft?
Between propaganda and "A.I.," #epistemology seems to be a dying skill 😕
Why Smart People Believe Obviously Wrong Things
I’m also interested in general epistemology ( #epistemology), ontology ( #ontology), and philosophy of education (#philosophyofeducation).
As for cinema ( #cinema), I’m passionate about B-movies and Kieślowski, and I enjoy discovering all kinds of films.
Hi Mastodon! I'm Pascal and new to Mastodon. I'm a computer engineer and a researcher in operations research. I'm a (fairly) strong advocate for #openSource and #openScience. I'm interested in many topics but mostly #sustainability #privacy #lowtech #epistemology.
I'm a bit of a #typesetting nerd, so I use #LaTeX (or #TeX), and #Typst. I maintain two Typst packages: glossarium and algorithmic.
I have some free time before my next work contract starts, so I have been slowly going through my personal projects backlog...
Looking forward to meet people here!
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The Pleasure Principle
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