If only people loved the animals that they eat as much as they love their dogs. (If you’re from one of the nine nations that eats dogs, then please ignore this starting point.) I use this as an example of cognitive dissonance. People can hold conflicting ideas in mind and apparently suffer no ill effect….
Category: AI
Donald Trump is Today’s Walter Cronkite
I was listening to Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast, episode 301, interviewing Tina Eliassi-Rad. It is an interesting discussion of AI and data, and its relevance to human knowledge and behavior. Eliassi-Rad commented that Walter Cronkite was the most trusted authority, that anything he said would be believed. Eliassi-Rad asserted that we don’t have anyone like…