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Now, you would think if somebody had a plausible idea about how to do that, everybody would be very excited about it, and there would be lots of research on how to do it.
And some of these are actually very plausible ideas.
And that's a very plausible idea.
And I asked last week, in a meeting with Dutch government representatives, I asked one of the leaders of the team whether he found plausible that people died because of the DigiNotar hack.
And in a more subtle way, I think, this works for all of the veiled speech acts involving plausible deniability: the bribes, threats, propositions, solicitations and so on.
And a similar analysis, I think, can apply to the potential awkwardness of a sexual solicitation, and other cases where plausible deniability is an asset.
Which brings us to, really, the third and most powerful incentive pushing decision-making away from humans and onto weapons: plausible deniability.
Now this didn't sound very plausible.
Thinking about this, I rejected many very plausible and dramatic breakthroughs to come, such as curing cancer.
Is it plausible we're the only creatures capable of contemplating this question?
Again, I think it's a strong ambition but it is a plausible one.
I found multiple layers of plausible deniability between grower and distributor and processor, and God knows who else.
And right there was a plausible theory about the identity of the two people, and the police made this theory as well.
Now, option two seems a little more scientifically plausible, but it begs the question, how does he ever walk through the park without sinking into the ground since the pressure he is exerting on the soil is calculated by his mass divided by the area of the bottom of his feet?
So, what hypothetical but plausible scenarios can you imagine falling under the burgeoning definition of cyberwarfare, and how might you design an international legal framework to deter these activities?
There's no legal or ethical or plausible way to enforce laws like these anyway.
One plausible candidate is the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in all complex cognitive functions.
I think it's plausible we might start to integrate robots in similar ways.
And every single part of this mechanism is actually plausible in biology.
But just ask yourselves, is it plausible that every single time for your entire life, when you did something nice for somebody else, all you were doing was maximizing your own utility?
Is it plausible that when a soldier jumps on a grenade to defend fellow soldiers, they're just promoting their narrow self-interest?
I mean, I think there's a kind of weak form of technological determinism that is quite plausible, like, you're unlikely to encounter a society that uses flint axes and jet planes.
NB: That looks plausible under current conditions.
In this case, we look for what seems plausible rather than what is statistically most probable.
The additional detail about her playing poker gives us a narrative that resonates with our intuitions— it makes it seem more plausible.
Conspiracy theories and false news stories often rely on a version of the conjunction fallacy to seem credible– the more resonant details are added to an outlandish story, the more plausible it begins to seem.
These are plausible claims, but in truth, we can't see the brain's wiring clearly enough to tell if these are really true.
I'm a fan of good, plausible, action movies.
Broadway MELODY of 1938 is not remotely believable nor plausible, but kind of fun in its strange way.
While I agree some poetic license may be admissible, this movie is at constant variance with the books, doing an incredible injustice to the exciting, plausible and wonderful stories written by Wilbur Smith.
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