Cicero’s life and thought are a testament to the idea of probabilia: we should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain

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Towaway6910 days ago
> ‘Sceptic’ comes from the Greek skeptikos, meaning enquirer, and has a long and serious pedigree in philosophy. Yet, since the 1990s, the term has been hijacked by science-denial movements, giving us oxymorons like ‘climate sceptic’, ‘vaccine sceptic’, and ‘evolution sceptic’.

On it's own, an AI will never be a sceptic in the true sense of the word.

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