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 guessing a lot of this has to do with reification of the left hemisphere's world, which is baked into most paradigms but particularly loud & explicit in AI-land. Thread, which I think you'd find worth reading and I'd be interested in your thoughts on:https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1187752394702151681 …
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relatedly, the traditional "laws of thought" are "laws of LHemisphere" law of identity law of non-contradiction law of excluded middle they only make sense in contextless spaces of zero nebulosity AI folks may not think literally these, but... similar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_thought#The_three_traditional_laws …
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