My recent blog, Fear and the 7 Belief systems, mentioned the Dunning - Kruger effect; see the yellow marking in my diagram. This "cognitive bias" is related to my blog topics of arrogance & ignorance, as well as (human) stupidity. "The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that describes the systematic tendency of people with low ability in a specific area...
Intuition has become a regular topic and I finally created a (new) label. The problem with intuition is that nobody knows the how, what, when, where, who orwhy. Intuition is a mystery. It's also a unknown known: we know that we don't know its source. Usually, we trust the source of such data-info. Several decades ago, I had an outside appointment that day. Suddenly,...
In my blog Types of Love, I made this comment: fantasy + intuition + beliefs = facts. Another view is this: from unknown unknowns towards known knowns (facts). My 2017 diagram gives another view by moving from below-right, to below-left, to top-right, towards top-left (facts). Source: my 2017 blog Focus vs Distraction It should be stressed...
Probably, Simon Kuper is (mostly) right in his recent FT article (below). In general, Simon Kuper is a good writer. This article seems, however, rather keen to illustrate a negative view. Slowly, I’m developing a more positive view about Artificial Intelligence (AI) because nowadays I’m actually using Google’s AI summaries. Before, I didn’t even bother as AI is...
De term artificiële intelligentie is ernstig misleidend want bij AI is geen sprake van echte intelligentie. Echte intelligentie is een combinatie van (1) kennis, (2) intuitie, (3) overtuigingen, en (4) fantasie. De term AI komt nu niet echt verder dan sub 1: kennis. Theoretisch zou sub 3 kunnen worden toegevoegd met mogelijk zeer ernstige gevolgen (o.a. "mensen zijn...
Recently, I received an Aeon / Psyche email including an article that caught my immediate interest: Why are humans so good at cooperating? That question about cooperation had once been on my mind too, but I chose to ignore it. Actually, its second article contains a glimpse of an answer to the question above: Why large language models are mysterious – even to their...
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