Hacker News with Generative AI: Epistemology

Science is a strong-link problem (experimental-history.com)
There are two kinds of problems in the world: strong-link problems and weak-link problems.
Science, Problem Solving, Epistemology
56 points by calvinfo 18 days ago | 12 comments
Bayesian Epistemology (2022) (plato.stanford.edu)
We can think of belief as an all-or-nothing affair. For example, I believe that I am alive, and I don’t believe that I am a historian of the Mongol Empire. However, often we want to make distinctions between how strongly we believe or disbelieve something.
Philosophy, Epistemology, Bayesian Statistics
100 points by rnjailamba 19 days ago | 58 comments
Why I'm Not a Bayesian (lesswrong.com)
This post focuses on philosophical objections to Bayesianism as an epistemology. I first explain Bayesianism and some standard objections to it, then lay out my two main objections (inspired by ideas in philosophy of science). A follow-up post will speculate about how to formalize an alternative.
Epistemology, Philosophy, Bayesianism, Artificial Intelligence
13 points by cubefox 138 days ago | 0 comments
Three subtle examples of data leakage (lesswrong.com)
This is a description of my work on some data science projects, lightly obfuscated and fictionalized to protect the confidentiality of the organizations I handled them for (and also to make it flow better). I focus on the high-level epistemic/mathematical issues, and the lived experience of working on intellectual problems, but gloss over the timelines and implementation details.
Data Science, Privacy, Epistemology
5 points by pb1729 142 days ago | 0 comments
We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad (lesswrong.com)
Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Uncertainty, Epistemology, Rationality
407 points by surprisetalk 185 days ago | 310 comments
Scientism (wikipedia.org)
Philosophy, Science, Epistemology
10 points by simonebrunozzi 206 days ago | 16 comments
We have a lot to learn from studying our ignorance (newyorker.com)
Epistemology, Ignorance, Learning
3 points by fortran77 207 days ago | 0 comments
The Four Theories of Truth as a Method for Critical Thinking (imfeld.dev)
Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Epistemology
33 points by thunderbong 208 days ago | 20 comments
"AI", students, and epistemic crisis (blogspot.com)
Education, Artificial Intelligence, Epistemology
97 points by ColinWright 230 days ago | 130 comments