Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    No Replies

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This presentation was given at 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies (CPS) at the Claremont United Church of Christ in Claremont Ca, on Feb. 15th, 2023. The event was organized CPS and co-sponsored

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Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Quote:In this presentation, Dr. Emily Adlam discusses the problem of confirmation in orthodox interpretations of quantum mechanics.

Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    2 Replies

Wasn't sure what to title this thread or if it will even be of its implied 'broader' interest, but here goes...

Came across a YouTube video (linked below) which is a snippet of a longer conversation between Lex Fridman (an emerging favorite of mine; really like this guy and his approach) and Edwa

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Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    12 Replies

Epic AI Fails — A List of Failed Machine Learning Projects

Mohit Pandey

[quote]Data shows that nearly a quarter of companies reported up to 50% of AI project failure rate. In another study

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Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Where there’s no will, there’s no way: Why artificial intelligence will never rule the world

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[i]This interview should be considered in conjunction with Rev.

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Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    2 Replies

The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools

Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan

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In 2013, the Netherlands deployed an algorithm to detect welfare fraud by people receiving childcare benefits. The algori

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Consciousness science forum    4 Replies

Check out this article and different versions of what could be an afterlife or way to experience immortality, so to speak . If any of these ideas r even plausible , ever , at any point in human history… they all sound scary to me and if that’s the only version of an afterlife that’s possible (the ki

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Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    1 Replies

Psychology studies that go viral are likelier to be bogus

Quote:A new 20-year analysis of over 14,000 psychology studies finds that a study's media coverage is negatively linked to its replicability.

Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    2 Replies

Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping Problem

Elisabeth Bik 

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There it was. A section of the same photo being used in two different papers to represent results from three entir

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Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    10 Replies

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023...ions-study

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“Even at the shortest term, our memory might not be fully reliable,” said Dr Marte Otten, the first author of the

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