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The fallacy of inscrutability [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2018 Contrary to the criticism that mysterious, unaccountable black-box software systems threaten to make the logic of critical decisions inscrutable, we argue that algorithms are fundamentally understandable pieces of technology. Software systems are designed to interact with the world in a controlled way and built or operated for a specific purpose ...
Joshua A. Kroll
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The gambler's fallacy fallacy (fallacy)
Journal of Risk Research, 2016 The gambler's fallacy is the irrational belief that prior outcomes in a series of events affect the probability of a future outcome, even though the events in question are independent and identically distributed. In this paper, we argue that in the standard account of the gambler's fallacy, the gambler's fallacy fallacy can arise: The irrational belief
Kristiansen, Silje, Kovic, Marko
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Anthropomorphism in AI: hype and fallacy
AI and EthicsThis essay focuses on anthropomorphism as both a form of hype and fallacy. As a form of hype, anthropomorphism is shown to exaggerate AI capabilities and performance by attributing human-like traits to systems that do not possess them.
Adriana Placani
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Continuing investing in a failing plan (i.e., the sunk-cost fallacy) is a common error that people are inclined to make when making decisions. It is impossible to get resources back that already have been invested.
Koen A Dijkstra, Ying-Yi Hong
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A CAUTION AGAINST THE ARTIFICIALISTIC FALLACY [PDF]
Filozofia i Nauka, 2022 The casual justification of the influence of a technology, particularly artificial intelligence, by appeal to the existence of the technology constitutes an artificialistic fallacy, analogous to the naturalistic fallacy that is well-known in philosophy ...
Robin K. Hill
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Aristotelian Foundations of Cohen's Logic-Based Therapy [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2023 IntroductionEliot Cohen is one of the contemporary pioneers of philosophical counseling. He considers philosophical counseling as one of the branches of applied philosophy. His logic-based therapy (LBT) or his logic-based counseling and therapy is also a
Mahdi Behniafar, Faezeh Khoshtinat
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The Fallacy of AI Functionality [PDF]
Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, 2022 Deployed AI systems often do not work. They can be constructed haphazardly, deployed indiscriminately, and promoted deceptively. However, despite this reality, scholars, the press, and policymakers pay too little attention to functionality. This leads to
Inioluwa Deborah Raji +3 more
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Multitask Instruction-based Prompting for Fallacy Recognition [PDF]
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023 Fallacies are used as seemingly valid arguments to support a position and persuade the audience about its validity. Recognizing fallacies is an intrinsically difficult task both for humans and machines.
Tariq Alhindi +3 more
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Logical Fallacy Detection [PDF]
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022 Reasoning is central to human intelligence. However, fallacious arguments are common, and some exacerbate problems such as spreading misinformation about climate change.
Zhijing Jin +8 more
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The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It [PDF]
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2021 Most cost-benefit analyses assume that the estimates of costs and benefits are more or less accurate and unbiased. But what if, in reality, estimates are highly inaccurate and biased?
B. Flyvbjerg, Dirk W. Bester
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