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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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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Yes, exactly those! Plus maybe a kind of naive idealism and cluelessness about the world in general.
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