Applications Food Packaging Grammar Error A frozen microwave meal has a grammar error in the instructions. After initial microwaving it says to: peel film back enough to stir, replace film and cook on HIGH for an additional 1-1 ½ minutes Do you see the error? Did you see the error automatically? If it requires conscious analysis
Applications AI Alignment and Openness to Debate: A Twitter Example I’ll analyze a real example to illustrate some Critical Fallibilist thinking about openness to debate. I replied to Eliezer Yudkowsky (an AI alignment thought leader) on Twitter: I'm an expert on Critical Rationalism. You ignored my criticism over 10 years ago. I don't think you&
Applications Example Debate with AI Researcher about Popper This is a fictional dialog which stands on its own but also follows my article Error Correction and AI Alignment. The main goal isn’t realism; it’s to illustrate some of Critical Fallibilism’s thinking about rationality and debate. The Debate Begins Elliot Temple: Do you agree that your
Applications Example Debate with AI Researcher This is a fictional example of what a debate could look like if an AI researcher were willing to debate and were unusually honest. It’s meant to be more illustrative than realistic. It can be read on its own, but it’s also a follow up to my article
Applications Error Correction and AI Alignment There are calls to pause or shut down AI development. I want to stay out of the widespread, tribalist, parochial political bickering because I think those activities are unproductive. But I can use these issues for examples to apply Critical Fallibilism (CF) philosophy to. How could people approach the issues
Applications Analyzing a Grammar Ambiguity Using Variables and Trees Let’s look at a grammatically ambiguous sentence fragment by me. This is a simple example of analyzing text, which is common philosophical activity. For context, I wrote CF newsletter titles and descriptions: We’ll analyze this text: Infrequent updates and links to Elliot's work This is a