Tag: Extraordinary claims
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Against the singularity hypothesis (Part 6: Implications)
This post concludes my discussion of the singularity hypothesis by drawing out implications of the previous discussion.
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Against the singularity hypothesis (Part 2: Preliminary doubts)
This post gives two preliminary reasons for skepticism about the singularity hypothesis.
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Epistemics: (Part 6: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence)
Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence, but that evidence is not always provided. I look at two examples of extraordinary claims based on rather less than extraordinary evidence, then draw lessons from this discussion.