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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Replying to @Meaningness
Any readings on the 1980's culture in AI research?
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Replying to @11kilobytes
Hmm… nothing come immediately to mind, I’m afraid
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Replying to @Meaningness @11kilobytes
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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Replying to @michael_nielsen @11kilobytes
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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Replying to @Meaningness @11kilobytes
I had the exact same response. And suspect I'd look more kindly on it now. I recommend "Technopoly", though it may be most of the ideas are already familiar.
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Thanks, I’ll take a look!
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