Not so long ago, I wrote a piece on some of the ethical question marks that Large Language Model (LLM) Artificial Intelligence (AI) raises. In the last week not one, but two, topics were brought to my attention that I consider to be examples of the dangers of naive application
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Things Are Good: Practicing Mindfulness Reduces Bias
Mindfulness training can reduce the biases one has according to a new paper published today in Nature. The researchers had a control group which was given a bias test but received no mindfulness training, the other group got training and then tested. The results are clear: being mindful can reduce
Continue readingScripturient: No Enemies; No Accomplishments
Have you ever read this poem? I hadn’t, until recently. But now it makes sense. Take a moment… No Enemies You have no enemies, you say? Alas! my friend, the boast is poor; He who has mingled in the fray Of duty, that the brave endure, Must have made foes!
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Fox and the Hen House – Trudeau Hands Industry the Keys
It’s not unfair to say that, when the Trudeau government talks about balancing resource development and the environment you can expect a giant thumb on the scale. When the two interests clash, the environment comes away with the shit end of the stick. Even by Ottawa standards, Tuesday’s meeting of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Is Corporate Meritocracy Fair?
The fascinating bit here is how easy it is for us to fool ourselves into thinking we’re doing “x”, when in reality we are doing “y”. In this study, all that was required to mirror the bias in our society against women was for a company to have a policy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Critical Thinking – Survivorship Bias
Consider the Hollywood actor giving the classic “follow your dreams and never give up” line is bad advice and is pure survivorship bias at work. Well what is surviorship bias? Let’s take a look friends and learn. 🙂 “Survivorship bias, or survival bias, is the logical error of concentrating on
Continue readingAgainst the Grain: Vocabulary’s got nothin’ to do with it
Content Notice: Victim blaming, trans-antagonism, reclamation of t-word slur Perhaps it was good fortune that I caught a bug and started drowning in my lungs. I recognized earlier this week that I was very tense from working back-to-back for such a protracted period of time and even though I earmarked
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Narrative War #nlpoli
The day after a massive Liberal victory in the general election, CBC’s David Cochrane posted an analysis piece on the new administration. CBC distributed it nationally. Cochrane describe Dwight Ball as a man “unlikely” to be Premier:…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Climate Change Science Deniers, Ignorance and Media’s False Balance
Climate change deniers are science deniers. That makes them either stupid, or so incredibly biased/conflicted that they are willing to ignore science and dodge accusations of their own stupidity to accomplish some other goal. In BC we are producing oil, gas and coal and stunningly stupid rates, only to go
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Media Corruption Trifecta!
It’s a trifecta of moral corruption! Rex Murphy shills for Big Oil and Gas. Postmedia consigns its editorial control to the Oil and Gas Lobby[TM]. Postmedia, naturally, fires one of the best energy/environment reporters in the nation. Film at 11. Ok, it’s 11. Let’s drill down. Journalists should declare when
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Legislating a real raise: Minimum wages and real earnings growth
In a recent post titled, “What happened to the distribution of real earnings during the recession?”, Stephen Gordon presents a graphs that shows some significant growth in real (adjust for inflation) earnings in Canada between 2007 and 2012. In addition, plotting average annual growth rates in real earnings against the
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Taxing Through Taxes
Despite not hailing from Nova Scotia, I suppose its time that we sat down and talked about what happened in the province. Though, this post will only touch on the topic; rather, we’re going to focus on something a bit grander that comes out of that dis…
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Taxing Through Taxes
Despite not hailing from Nova Scotia, I suppose its time that we sat down and talked about what happened in the province. Though, this post will only touch on the topic; rather, we’re going to focus on something a bit grander that comes out of that discussion. Now, as a
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Taxing Through Taxes
Despite not hailing from Nova Scotia, I suppose its time that we sat down and talked about what happened in the province. Though, this post will only touch on the topic; rather, we’re going to focus on something a bit grander that comes out of that discussion. Now, as a
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Your Source for Daily, Creative, Intepretation
Source: Vancouver Sun: Ethics Czar Looking into Parliamentary Secretary’s Letter to CRTCAnother day, another Conservative caucus member rushing to the dictionary to look up the meaning of the word “Ethics”.To put it in a nutshell, Saskatchewan MP (and …
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Your Source for Daily, Creative, Intepretation
Source: Vancouver Sun: Ethics Czar Looking into Parliamentary Secretary’s Letter to CRTC Another day, another Conservative caucus member rushing to the dictionary to look up the meaning of the word “Ethics”. To put it in a nutshell, Saskatchewan MP (and Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs) David Anderson is being looked
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Your Source for Daily, Creative, Intepretation
Source: Vancouver Sun: Ethics Czar Looking into Parliamentary Secretary’s Letter to CRTC Another day, another Conservative caucus member rushing to the dictionary to look up the meaning of the word “Ethics”. To put it in a nutshell, Saskatchewan MP (and Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs) David Anderson is being looked
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Rehtaeh Parsons: Cartoon depicts RCMP neglect and bias against women
Editorial cartoon via: The Chronicle Herald The Canadian Progressive recommends: Rehtaeh Parsons: Anonymous Says It Has Rape Confession War on women Scathing report accuses RCMP of raping, abusing B.C. Aboriginal women We recommend:Rehtaeh Parsons: Anonymous Says It Has Rape ConfessionRehtaeh Parsons: Top Liberal strategist asked Anonymous to interveneScathing report accuses
Continue readingTrashy's World: OCDSB survey
You might remember that I wrote about this last year. Now the Ottawa public school board has some results to talk about. And they are for sure talking about it. The big takeaway for them is the diversity of the student population. Now, anyone can see this for themselves by
Continue readingIt’s conclusive, the Manning Centre for Building Democracy is definitively leaning towards the Conservatives.
The [Manning] centre would not be another political party, but help build an “infrastructure” for existing Conservative parties federally and provincially, Mr. Manning said. (source) As other progressive bloggers have pointed out, the Manning Centre for Building Democracy is obviously partisan – slanted towards the Conservatives. You really just had
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