10Jan 2025 by Post

The Displacement Fallacy: Evolution’s Shell Game

Conservation of Information, David Thomas, Design Inference, displacement fallacy, Eugenie Scott, Evolution, evolutionary computing, fitness, Intelligent Design, mathematics, mount improbable, Nature (journal), Peter Robinson, pigeonhole principle, Richard Dawkins, shell game, simulation, Tesla, The Blind Watchmaker, Thomas Ray, Thomas Schneider, William Shakespeare
In a shell game, an operator places a small object, like a pea, under one of three cups and then rapidly shuffles the cups to confuse observers. Source
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31Jan 2024 by Post

Artificial General Intelligence: AI’s Temptation to Theft Over Honest Toil

An Idol for Destruction (series), Artificial Intelligence, Bertrand Russell, chess, Elon Musk, environments, human work, Intelligent Design, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, Los Angeles, machines, Neuroscience & Mind, Robert J. Marks, self-driving cars, software, Technology, Tesla, virtual railroad, Walter Isaacson, West Virginia
The worry is — and it’s a legitimate worry — that our environments will increasingly be altered to accommodate AI. Source
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22Oct 2021 by Post

Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Cadillac, cars, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, chromosome 2, common ancestor, common features, Elon Musk, Evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary tree, Francis Collins, fusion event, Genome Research, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, historical sciences, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Matti Leisola, Science and Human Origins, Stephen Meyer, Tesla, University of Cambridge
Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa. Source
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