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Do Humans Have an “Inductive Bias”?
Artifical General Intelligence

Do Humans Have an “Inductive Bias”?

Posted on January 11, 2021January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

I wrote a post asking if humans had ‘inductive biases’ in the same sense that machine learning algorithms do. My conclusion was that they do…

Humans and Induction: Heuristics vs Explanations
Artifical General Intelligence

Humans and Induction: Heuristics vs Explanations

Posted on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In a past post, I made the claim that Induction was subsumed by Critical Rationalism and that all cases of induction ‘working’ are really cases…

Trump and Truth: Induction vs Critical Rationalism
Critical Rationalism

Trump and Truth: Induction vs Critical Rationalism

Posted on January 4, 2021January 4, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Despite appearances, this post isn’t intended as a political post. I simply utilized the example that led to the thought that inspired the post. We…

Inductively Determining the Probability that Einstein was Correct
Critical Rationalism

Inductively Determining the Probability that Einstein was Correct

Posted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

I owe several people responses. I owe Ella feedback on CTP theory. I think I owe Dennis responses on animal consciousness as well as what…


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