Tag: Logic
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Weekly Problem No 12. A unified model of human biases
[raw] The Paradox of Market Street Week 1 Challenge | Deadline: Next Monday “In the bustling city of Behavoria, on the famous Market Street, a peculiar experiment is taking place…” The Scenario Three shops opened on Market Street, each selling identical coffee mugs: 🏪 Shop A: Sells mugs for $10 🏪 Shop B: Initially sells…
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Liar! Weekly Problem
🤔 Philosopher A 🤯 Philosopher B “Let’s start our discussion about the Liar Paradox…” Next Step Reset The Liar Paradox is one of the oldest and most famous logical paradoxes, dating back to ancient Greece. In its simplest form, it’s captured in the statement: “This statement is false.” Understanding the Paradox: If we assume the…
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The stable marriage problem
Our weekly problem no. 3. Algorithmic problem Solutions to be published on Saturday 26/10/24! Write your thoughts in the comments! Here is the solution to the stable marriage riddle.
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This is why most people are wrong about almost anything
The case of minimum wage laws serves as a poignant illustration of the perils of inductive reasoning. Hayek’s predictions, though grounded in economic theory and empirical observations, failed to account for the multifaceted dynamics shaping labor markets. By extrapolating from limited data and theoretical abstractions, Hayek fell victim to the inherent biases and oversights characteristic…
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Five habits that make you more intelligent
Being smart is generally considered a great compliment and the good news is that we have some room for cognitive improvement that can simply be achieved by implementing the right habits into your weekly routine. So here are five habits that, as research indicated, make you more intelligent over time: It is challenging to define…
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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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AI will become conscious sooner than we think
Google engineer Blake Lemoine claimed the chatbot LaMDA was conscious. It was probably a false alert. Why this should still worry us! A few weeks back, I had a heated debate with my best friend, who is an upcoming physicist and psychologist. The topic: AC- Artificial Consciousness. In all those movies where the protagonist falls…