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#ignorance

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Trump, RFK Jr. Destroying Generation of Knowledge
thenation.com/article/society/

* gutting public health, universities

Post-truthism: alternative facts
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#TransLivesMatter
#science #knowledge #PublicHealth
🇺🇲 #Trump #fascism #ignorance #Christofascism #censorship #CulturalRevolution
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #Trumpism #protofascism

Transgenocide
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2025 Election: Uphold 🇨🇦 Values
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QuIRK-E Call to Action
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The Nation · Trump and RFK Jr. Are Destroying a Generation of KnowledgeThe gutting of the administrative state, of the universities, and of expertise is like something out of the Cultural Revolution.
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Stephen Elliott~Buckley

@luckytran

Yeah, 54% of American adults read at the grade 6 level or lower.

This affects critical thinking, moral philosophy, and media analysis skills.

Thanks Reagan.

thenationalliteracyinstitute.c

National Literacy · Literacy Statistics 2024- 2025 (Where we are now)The capacity to read and write, commonly known as literacy, stands out as a pivotal determinant in shaping an individual's career trajectory. Individuals with literacy skills have access to a broad spectrum of career possibilities, including highly skilled and well-paying positions. Conversely, those lacking literacy face severely restricted options, with even entry-level, low-skilled jobs posing challenges to secure.Globally, the overall literacy rate stands at a commendable level. For individu
#measles#ignorance#canada
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Gerd_Brodowski

#greece #israel #hungary #palestine : #war / #gaza / #warcrimes / #internationallaw / #amnesia / #ignorance

„Prime Minister Netanyahu welcomed Mitsotakis by calling him a “good friend,” and added that ties between the two countries “are constantly increasing.” “I know of many Israelis who are going to Greece, investing in Greece, which is a vote of confidence,” he added.“

greekreporter.com/2025/03/30/m

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

In other words, Generative AI and LLMs lack a sound epistemology and that's very problematic...:

"Bullshit and generative AI are not the same. They are similar, however, in the sense that both mix true, false, and ambiguous statements in ways that make it difficult or impossible to distinguish which is which. ChatGPT has been designed to sound convincing, whether right or wrong. As such, current AI is more about rhetoric and persuasiveness than about truth. Current AI is therefore closer to bullshit than it is to truth. This is a problem because it means that AI will produce faulty and ignorant results, even if unintentionally.
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Judging by the available evidence, current AI – which is generative AI based on large language models – entails artificial ignorance more than artificial intelligence. That needs to change for AI to become a trusted and effective tool in science, technology, policy, and management. AI needs criteria for what truth is and what gets to count as truth. It is not enough to sound right, like current AI does. You need to be right. And to be right, you need to know the truth about things, like AI does not. This is a core problem with today's AI: it is surprisingly bad at distinguishing between truth and untruth – exactly like bullshit – producing artificial ignorance as much as artificial intelligence with little ability to discriminate between the two.
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Nevertheless, the perhaps most fundamental question we can ask of AI is that if it succeeds in getting better than humans, as already happens in some areas, like playing AlphaZero, would that represent the advancement of knowledge, even when humans do not understand how the AI works, which is typical? Or would it represent knowledge receding from humans? If the latter, is that desirable and can we afford it?"

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

papers.ssrn.comAI as Artificial IgnoranceAI and bullshit (in the strong philosophical sense of Harry Frankfurt) are similar in the sense that both prioritize rhetoric over truth. They mix true, false,
#AI#GenerativeAI#Chatbots
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

#Ivermectin was found to help #COVID patients...

patients with parasites

#Ignorance spread "the cure" without the whole picture

Likewise, #VitaminA was found to help #Measles patients...

patients with vitamin A deficiency

And so, ignorance once again:

"West #Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as #medical #disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak"

People think they know better than #scientists and #doctors, and harm themselves and their children

tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-

A sign is posted in German at the entrance of the children's emergency room at Covenant Children's Hospital, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.
TPR · West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreakBy David Martin Davies
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Roland Klose

On March 21, 1925, Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay signed the Butler Act, a bill that banned the teaching of evolution in public schools. “Probably the law will never be applied,” Peay said, defending his decision. “It may not be sufficiently definite to permit any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes that it is going to be an active statute.” Six weeks later, high school teacher John T. Scopes was charged with violating the law.

This editorial cartoon by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick was published on March 25, 1925, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It depicts a monkey in a tree, dodging bricks. An accompanying editorial made fun of the antievolution law signed by Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay, calling it a “boob law” that made the state a “laughing stock.”
#tennessee#stlouis#science
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