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Feb. 3rd, 2025 11:41 pm( Read more... )
However, this would require shifting incentives away from maximizing engagement and toward epistemic responsibility, which is difficult given current business models.
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It would be an interesting challenge to come with up a technology and a business model that solves the problem.
Also related https://youtu.be/qlPHGnChhI4?si=03mDoaAYAFJnEfCE&t=4004
truth conditions (theoretical intentionality) vs satisfaction conditions (practical intentionality)
However, this would require shifting incentives away from maximizing engagement and toward epistemic responsibility, which is difficult given current business models.
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It would be an interesting challenge to come with up a technology and a business model that solves the problem.
Also related https://youtu.be/qlPHGnChhI4?si=03mDoaAYAFJnEfCE&t=4004
truth conditions (theoretical intentionality) vs satisfaction conditions (practical intentionality)
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Sep. 23rd, 2024 11:39 pmCompany X invented a cancer diagnostics method that predicts with 100% accuracy cases where treatment is not necessary. It's a 50% improvement over previous methods. Clearly, company X created a lot of value because it enabled patients/insurance to save lots of money as well as hustle (pain and suffering). Nevertheless, capturing a portion of this value is a challenge because people don't want to pay for treatments they don't need.
Assignment: come up with at least three ways to monetize the new diagnostics method, based on the savings.
Assignment: come up with at least three ways to monetize the new diagnostics method, based on the savings.
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Sep. 6th, 2024 12:07 amЛюди, обсуждающие американскую политику делятся на две части: 1) те, кто понимают, что законы (bills), касающиеся бюджетных денег, принимает Конгресс, а не президент и 2) те, кто не понимают.
Еще интересно, что в рассуждениях по п.2 Байден настолько выжил из ума, что коварно украл все деньги.
Еще интересно, что в рассуждениях по п.2 Байден настолько выжил из ума, что коварно украл все деньги.
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Sep. 5th, 2024 01:00 pmAccording to the WSJ, best US colleges are mostly in CA or MA.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/wsj-best-colleges-2025-princeton-babson-stanford-52443de8
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/wsj-best-colleges-2025-princeton-babson-stanford-52443de8
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Feb. 29th, 2024 10:03 pmBecause the epistemic value of drawing in science is generally understood in terms of the drawing as an object and not, as is argued at various points in this volume, in the drawing process itself, the unique epistemological value of drawing has become increasingly under-appreciated (Anderson 2014; Tversky 2010; Wittmann 2011). Educationally, this has had costs in terms of student engagement, a deeper understanding of the conventions of scientific representations, and the development of ‘creative reasoning’ (Ainsworth et al. 2011).... A unique advantage of drawing is its double nature as a tool for deepening understanding and for communication. Drawing helps to consolidate ideas, clarify concepts and bring visibility to thought. Drawing can extract and highlight salient information from what is discussed, observed and witnessed, and can be used to communicate and analyze an idea or a concept within a research team or to the broader public.
Drawing Processes of Life, 2024.
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Feb. 20th, 2024 06:48 pmemphasized communicability:
But a second, especially crucial role of models, drawings, and computer graphics is to make explicit a relationship that you have found, enabling other people to see it as well. This often can be done just by making the relevant part a heavier line or a brighter color, or by deleting most of everything else, but it always requires explicit effort.
Richardson, Jane and Richardson, David C. (1992), ‘looking at proteins’, Biophysics Journal, 63, pp. 1186–209.
quoted from Drawing Processes of Life: Molecules, Cells, Organisms. 2024.
https://x.com/RepStefanik/status/1732138663608271149
Presidents ofharvard
penн REFUSE to say whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” is bullying and harassment according to their codes of conduct. Even going so far to say it needs to turn to “action” first. As in committing genocide.
Never thought I'd be on Stefanik's side in this election cycle.
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Jul. 6th, 2023 02:39 pm“A learning instinct, as he[Peter Marler] meant it, isn’t an indiscriminate disposition to learn anything; it is an evolved disposition to acquire a given type of knowledge, such as songs (for birds) or language (for humans). A learning instinct not only targets a specific learning goal, it also provides the instinctive learner with appropriate perceptual and inferential mechanisms to extract the right kind of knowledge from the right kind of evidence.”
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“How do learning instincts take advantage of experience to produce mature cognitive mechanisms?”
Dan Sperber. “The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding.”
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“How do learning instincts take advantage of experience to produce mature cognitive mechanisms?”
Dan Sperber. “The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding.”
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Mar. 7th, 2023 09:23 pmWhat makes it the case that something counts as a form of cognitive success? For instance, why think that knowing the capital of Pakistan is a cognitive success, rather than just another cognitive state that an agent can occupy, like having 70% confidence that Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan? Not every cognitive state enjoys cognitive success. Knowing, understanding, mastering—these are cognitive successes.
[e.g]...we describe a person as “knowing” something as a way of signaling that her testimony with respect to that thing is to be trusted.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/
Machines can now be trained to generate information traditionally associated with cognitive successes by humans. Today, we know relatively well what kind of cognitive success is achievable for a majority humans. We are still in the beginning of the process of building cognitively successful computers. We simply don't know what they are capable of when trained by a small number of highly successful humans.
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О войне и Красной Шапочке
Feb. 4th, 2023 03:36 pmОтветы волка на вопросы Красной Шапочки были новой информацией, но не новым знанием. Знание появилось только после того, как он ее съел.
После начала войны у нас не стало намного больше информации о России. Но прибавилось огромное знание о ней. Информацию можно было игнорировать, а знание - нет. The asymmetry between past and present knowledge is dramatic.
В определенной степени это относится к переходу from Google to the so-called generative AI.
После начала войны у нас не стало намного больше информации о России. Но прибавилось огромное знание о ней. Информацию можно было игнорировать, а знание - нет. The asymmetry between past and present knowledge is dramatic.
В определенной степени это относится к переходу from Google to the so-called generative AI.
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Nov. 27th, 2022 11:04 pm
This paper considers some of the reasons why motivated students in suitable learning environments may fail to learn from competent teachers.
...the constructivist perspective that learning is a process of knowledge
construction in the mind of the learner (Pope 1982; von Glaserfeld 1989, Fensham, Gunstone &
White 1994), and assumes that we are concerned with ‘meaningful’ rather than ‘rote’ learning
(Ausubel 1961).
The primary distinction is between situations when the intended learning does not take place
because
(a) the learner can not make sense of the presented material in terms of existing ideas; or
(b) the learner interprets the new material in terms of existing, but alternative, ideas.
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Keith S. Taber, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, U.K. 2000.
https://science-education-research.com/downloads/publications/2001/Taber-2001-TheMismatchBetweenAssumedPriorKnowledge-AMV.pdf
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Oct. 18th, 2022 08:11 am“ ...to learn is to form an internal model of the external world.”
--- Stanislas Dehaene. “How We Learn.”
Note that he either externalizes confirmation of the model or considers its confirmation to be a part of formation. (upd. via trial and error).
cf: Lawvere's rough sketch of mathematical thinking where confirmation can be made explicit.
