Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an ...
Nativists say that migrants raise house prices, cost money and undermine economic growth. Do they have a point?
It is driven, in large part, by logical fallacies and cognitive dissonance, not only consumption habits. Misinformation is a process that quietly reshapes our perceptions and spreads outward to ...
Over the years, Avi Gilburt has shared many of the widely believed axioms in the market, which actually have turned out to be fallacies. One of the difficulties for the market participant that has ...
It’s well known that consumers value online reviews: As many as 98% report that they rely on reviews to inform purchase decisions, with some consumers listing it as the number-one factor they ...
There are fallacies of informal logic so frequently abused to confuse the audience in a debate that they have received special names. Argumentum ad ignorantiam – the argument from ignorance ...
He takes us into an upper-class home, shell-shocked by the revelation of the daughter’s homosexuality, to point out the ironies, flaws, and fallacies in cishet-normative arguments. Characters ...
Fourteen states are challenging the constitutionality of Elon Musk's role. The federal judge hearing arguments over whether tech billionaire Elon Musk's role at the Department of Government ...
Since last week’s newsletter offered a favorite argument for the existence of God, it’s only fair to balance the scales by considering a strong argument against religious faith, against the ...
[This article is excerpted from Economic Controversies, chapter 21, “The Fallacy of the ‘Public Sector’” (2011 ... the inherent mismanagement of government was generally considered a good argument for ...
A$AP Rocky’s firearm assault trial entered closing arguments today, with prosecutors casting the Grammy-nominated rapper as the antagonist of a street scuffle that ...