Who does a right to compute actually protect?
Several states appear to be considering so-called "right to compute" laws. The rhetoric around these laws attempts to draw a comparison with other rights such as the right of free speech
Framing
Disjunctive arguments can be a reverse multiple-stage fallacy
Assume we want to know the probability that two events co-occur (i.e. of their conjunction). If the two events are independent, the probability of the co-occurrence is the product of the probabilities
Don't accuse your interlocutor of being insufficiently truth-seeking
I argue that you shouldn't accuse your interlocutor of being insufficiently truth-seeking. This doesn't mean you can't internally model their level of truth-seeking and use that for
"AI": Think The Trial as much as The Terminator
The other day, I was discussing some ideas about machine learning models and how they could be used for certain applications with some friends. For reasons of anonymity I'm going to