If Not Us, Then Who?

"If not us, who? If not now, when?".

If Not Turing's Test, Then What?

ence, then it will be worthwhile to identify good problems, and even more worthwhile to discover the attributes that make them good problems. This discovery process is necessarily empirical, so we examine several challenge problems, beginning with Turing’s famous test, and more than a dozen attributes that challenge problems might have. We are led to a contrast between research strategies—the s...

0 Vacuum Energy : “ If Not Now , Then When ? ”

For a flat universe presently dominated by static or dynamic vacuum energy, cosmological constant (LCDM) or quintessence (QCDM), we calculate the asymp-totic collapsed mass fraction as function of the present ratio of smooth energy to matter energy R 0 = (1 − Ω m0)/Ω m0. Identifying these collapsed fractions as anthropic probabilities, we find the observed present ratio R 0 ∼ 2 to be likely in ...

If not Turing ’ s test , then what ? Paul

If it is true that good problems produce good science, then it will be worthwhile to identify good problems, and even more worthwhile to discover the attributes that make them good problems. This discovery process is necessarily empirical, so we examine several challenge problems, beginning with Turing’s famous test, and more than a dozen attributes that challenge problems might have. We are le...

Even if after If then conditionals

This study evaluates how people represent “even if” conditionals when they have to integrate them with previous “if then” conditionals and also make an inference. The terms in the premises were ordered to facilitate their integration (Figure 1: If A then B; Even if B C). In half the cases, the “even if” conditional was expressed with a negation instead of an affirmation (If A then B; Even if no...