Category: Society
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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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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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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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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 a mock and scepticism for his claims. In June this year,…
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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…