Asimov

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Asimov is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 22, 2021 and January 23, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “when a professional scientist says, to quote Asimov, ‘That’s funny’”; “Maybe they resemble Asimov’s robots”. It most often appears alongside ACX, African Gray Parrots, Animal Cognition.

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• Category: People
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: April 22, 2021
• Last seen: January 23, 2024

Appears In

• Your Book Review: Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?
• Should The Future Be Human?

Related Pages

• • ACX (1 shared issues)
• • African Gray Parrots (1 shared issues)
• • Animal Cognition (1 shared issues)
• • apes (1 shared issues)
• • Are We Smart Enough (1 shared issues)
• • Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are (1 shared issues)
• • Ascended Economy (1 shared issues)
• • Blindsight (1 shared issues)
• • Business Insider (1 shared issues)
• • capitalism (1 shared issues)
• • Capuchin monkeys (1 shared issues)
• • Cat Sense (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• • https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• • https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• • https://www.asimov.press/
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/selection-bias-is-a-fact-of-life
• • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Your Book Review: Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?

April 22, 2021 · Original source

· As mentioned in the changes to the field of ethology above, De Waal also gives a helpfully nuanced discussion of the role of observation and anecdote in the scientific process - no, you shouldn't treat it as conclusive data, but yes it can certainly suggest areas for further study, especially when the intuitions are built up by thousands of hours of careful observation. Put that observation together with a thorough understanding of relevant theory (like evolution), and when a professional scientist says, to quote Asimov, "That's funny", we likely have a good candidate to design a robust experiment for. Ethology also demonstrates the importance of interrelating different methods of gathering data. Fieldwork (watching animals in the wild), observation of captive animals in nice conditions, and controlled experiments all give different information that must be compared, contrasted, and assembled to get a complete picture.

Should The Future Be Human?

January 23, 2024 · Original source

Future AIs are a lot like humans, only smarter. Maybe they resemble Asimov’s robots, or R2-D2 from Star Wars. Their hopes and dreams are different from ours, but still recognizable as hopes and dreams.

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• predictive processing
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