Article on the culture of OpenAI gave me weird flashbacks. The author couldn’t know this, but the personalities and ways of thinking are SO familiar from 1988. AI still attracts the same sort of person, subject to the same peculiar cognitive distortions.https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615181/ai-openai-moonshot-elon-musk-sam-altman-greg-brockman-messy-secretive-reality/ …
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I’m sure lots was written at the time though
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That's a good suggestion. What are the "cognitive distortions?" Is it something like wrong modes-of-being that are promoted by Rationalist eternalism? Or perhaps cogntivism + representationalism?
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Curious what you think of Weizenbaum's famous book, which I've only read summaries of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reason … Although it's not written about AI specifically, Neil Postman's "Technopoly" has some insightful critical things to say about technocracy.
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You know, I think I too have never actually read it! My vague recollection is that it seemed (from summaries I read in the 80s) too wooly and Romantic (in the philosophical sense) to be worth reading. Maybe I’d have a different opinion now.
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