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Team of scientists working in a laboratory, carefully conducting experiments and analyzing data. Generative AI

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post

Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 17, 2024

Categorized
Peer Review

Tagged
Abortion advocacy and peer review, Campbell’s Law, Carole Hooven, Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Fertility, Goodhart’s Law, Harvard University and peer review, Laszlo Bencze, Leslie D. McIntosh, Pregnancy and Mental Health - a Behavioral and Biomedical Perspective, Pro-life advocacy and peer review, Robert J. Marks on peer review}

A Case Study in Why Peer Review May Be Unreformable

_{McIntosh and Hudson Vitale illustrate, by their very zeal to eliminate pro-life researchers, the built-in corruption of the peer review process} _{Denyse O'Leary

January 17, 2024

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Peer Review}

The excruciating difficulty for peer review is Goodhart’s Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Bias makes it all worse. Read More ›

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podcast

Author
George Montañez and Robert J. Marks
Date
June 25, 2020

Tagged
bias, Campbell’s Law, chatbots, Computer Simulation, design inference, Directed Panspermia, Elon Musk, Extraterrestrials, Goodhart’s Law, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Intelligent design theory, Panspermia, SETI, simulation, the imitation game, Turing Test}

Bingecast: George Montañez on Intelligence and the Turing Test

_{George Montañez and Robert J. Marks

June 25, 2020

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What do computer scientists say about the ability of machines to think? Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, tackled the question in 1950 and proposed the Turing test as an answer. Is the Turing test important today? Can a deeper undertanding of intelligence be culled for the Turing test? Robert J. Marks discusses the Turing test, artificial intelligence, Read More ›

Chatbot / Social Bot mit Quellcode im Hintergrund

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks and George Montañez
Date
October 3, 2019

Tagged
bias, Campbell’s Law, chatbots, design inference, Goodhart’s Law, the imitation game, Turing Test}

Can Machines Think?

_{Robert J. Marks and George Montañez

October 3, 2019

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What do computer scientists say about the ability of machines to think? Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, tackled the question in 1950 and proposed the Turing test as an answer. Is the Turing test important today? Robert J. Marks discusses the Turing test with Dr. George Montañez. Show Notes 00:55 | Introducing Dr. George Montañez, Iris and Read More ›

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post

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
July 18, 2019

Categorized
Education, Peer Review

Tagged
academia, Campbell’s Law, citation, Featured, Goodhart’s Law, H-factor, Impact factor, Longform}

Why It’s So Hard To Reform Peer Review

_{Robert J. Marks: Reformers are battling numerical laws that govern how incentives work. Know your enemy!} _{Robert J. Marks

July 18, 2019

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Education, Peer Review}

Measurement creates a temptation to achieve a measurable goal by less than totally honest means. As in physics, the simple act of measuring invariably disturbs what you are trying to measure.