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The Simple Sabotage Field Manual
Via kottke, we found this 20-page government-issued, World War II era guidebook called the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. University administrators and business managers take note, here is tip #3: Organizations and Conferences: When possible, refer all matters to committees, for … Continue reading
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The spatial physics of cancer cells
Jammed Cells Expose the Physics of Cancer https://t.co/TakGY21ev0 pic.twitter.com/mpMqxV08Lp — Quanta Magazine (@QuantaMagazine) August 18, 2016
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Ethical machines (part 3 of 3)
In our previous posts, we presented Brett Frischmann’s novel idea of a Reverse Turing Test, i.e. the idea of testing the ability of humans to think like a machine or a computer. But, how would we create such a test? … Continue reading
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Thinking like a machine (part 2 of 3)
In our previous post, we mentioned John Danaher’s excellent review of Brett Frischmann’s 2014 paper exploring the possibility of a Reverse Turing Test. One of the insightful contributions Frischmann makes to this voluminous literature is his idea of a Turing … Continue reading
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Reverse Turing Tests and Ethical Machines (part 1 of 3)
Our colleague John Danaher recently pondered the possibility of a “Reverse Turing Test” in this intriguing blog post dated 21 July 2016. That is, instead of testing for a machine’s ability to think like a human, what if we tested for a … Continue reading
Posted in Bayesian Reasoning, Philosophy, Science, Science Fiction
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Kant vs. Strauss vs. postmodernism
If you had to choose, would you rather read 300 pages on Kantian nonsense, on Straussian esotericism, or on postmodernist garbage? Our colleague Jason Brennan, a philosophy professor at Georgetown University, wrote up this sarcastic taxonomy of the most common … Continue reading
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Additional critique of Baude and Sachs
We mentioned previously that our colleagues Will Baude (University of Chicago) and Stephen Sachs (Duke University) posted to SSRN a fascinating paper titled “The Law of Interpretation” to be published in the Harvard Law Review early next year. In their … Continue reading
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prior probability 