Author: Yildiz Culcu
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The Science of getting rich. Wallace D. Wattles.
Everyone can, if he tries? I am not sure about that. I just started reading the book called “the Science of getting rich” by writer Wallace D. Wattles and he made an interesting thesis at the beginning of the book. “There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra…
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Teachers replaced- Can AI give students feedback?
I work in a Research project that tests AI in schools. It could give students the opportunity to have fair assessment, but there are some obstacles…
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The danger of AI: Does no one want to talk about the children?
Children get in contact with AI through many things. AI systems are “embedded in toys, virtual assistants, video games, and adaptive learning software”. Children are on social media and algorithms determine what they watch, what products are advertised to them, and how they regard sexuality, race, and religion.
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Intelligent men are more faithful than other men. Here’s why:
Primates established monogamous mating systems to protect their offspring. Hi, folks. A few studies show that those men with higher IQs are more faithful and approve of monogamy more likely than less intelligent men. This is perhaps surprising for some people because there is this false narrative man is not created to be monogamous, in…
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De Anima: Aristotle explains why people can never accept a sentient AI
The great philosopher and polymath of ancient Greece Aristotle talks in his book “De Anima” [On the soul] about the soul and existence of living things. He is very accurate in distinguishing the living things from the non-living things. And that is an important definition to debate the moral status of robots. But one thing…
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Exciting new study: AI can read our minds
AI can do a lot of cool stuff. If you read my articles, you know that scientists managed to let AI develop an intuition for physics like a child. AI can manipulate human behaviour and AI unfortunately adapted one of the most human traits possible, racism and sexism. But a recent study from the university…
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What is the sense of life? IT’S OBVIOUS!
Depression often correlates with nihilism, an attitude of seeing no sense, virtue, or meaning in anything. Not even in life, and that can sometimes become dangerous. But it is lunacy and an utterly false assumption to claim there is no sense of life. We just have to think less complex about it. I make a…
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How different are men and women and why is this question so important to people?
A lot of stereotypes in social science turned out to be not exactly true. One other narrative is, for instance, that women are less competitive than men, but recent studies show that this is very task-specific and regarding beauty. Women are actually very competitive. Women are also not more cooperative, that’s too easy. Studies show…
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Why you shouldn’t have children
Or maybe you should, but only after you read this article because there might be some things you’re not considering. Now, before you’re going to kill me, please hear me out. I am not telling anybody what to do and surely I am not saying that having children is an entirely bad thing. In fact,…
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AI as a protector for victims of domestic abuse? Three-Minute thought.
AI reports sexual violence and discrimination and predicts future violence more efficiently than humans. Many people now can rely on technology to help them out in dangerous situations and to make the reach out easier for the victims. But what does this new achievement say about us, humans? Robots are not our enemies Research of…
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Is Ex-Google engineer Blake Lemoine crazy?
I read a lot about LaMDA this year. The Google chatbot, that engineer Blake Lemoine, claimed to be sentient. I have made an article before where I explain why LaMDA was a false alert. You can read the article here . Undeniably, Lemoine received mockery and scepticism for his claims. In June this year, Lemoine…
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Why stupid people always win-The Math of stupidity.
What makes a person stupid and why do stupid people win over smart ones? An essay. There is a logic behind stupidity, and why it grows so fast. It’s a mathematical function. Before I show the reader the function of stupidity, we might want to clarify how one should define stupidity. This, however, is more complicated…
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The physics Nobel prize this year was an honor to Max Planck
Three men received on the 4th October, 2022 the physics Nobel prize “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. Their names are Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger. Simultaneously, I was at an event to commemorate the 75th date of death of the famous…
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The paradox of pain- I’ll gladly live in hell
We feel, we control, we lose. Why you maximize pain when you try to reduce it. A paradox is a statement or a concept that refutes itself, but when investigated may prove well-founded or true. To explain the paradox of pain, we first must ask ourselves how we shall define the term itself. There is a…
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Physics and the question of Consciousness
Physics and the question of consciousness Part I Did Heisenberg answer the question of free will? Free will is a concept discussed by philosophers. But did you know that in physics the question of free will becomes more and more very important too? There is no standardized definition of free will but the closest that…
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A Deep Learning model could detect breast cancer. Why did that make me cry?
Mammography is the usual technique to diagnose a woman with breast cancer. However, this method is very dangerous and a risk. Now I read AI can help us. It moved me to tears. Mammography is a method, using radio waves to diagnose women with breast cancer. Women who turn 40 are often told that they should…