Princeton scholars renew critique of p(doom) as pseudo-quantification

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor repromote their two-year-old essay arguing that p(doom) figures merely dress unfounded intuitions as precise numbers, laundering vague fears into policy arguments.

2026-09-18 ~ 2026-09-19 · 2 related posts

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