I'm some combination of another '+1 would read this post' and 'oh god I wasted so much time trying to understand what LW meant by that 3 years ago and never want to think about it again, but would still read this post' :)
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If you are a bright 16-to-24-year-old, it’s essentially impossible to figure out on your own that field X is bogus; you just assume it’s real because lot of smart famous people do. If you are lucky, you encounter a mentor who points out that it’s nonsense, and do something else
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There are lots of senior people who can explain to students that cognitive science isn’t a thing. However, Yudkosky was self-taught, so he didn’t get the benefit of that, and just read a lot of papers, and assumed without thinking about it that there was some there there.
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wasn't it a non-field from the start? A marketing ploy to get money for ai after the then-current ai winter had it dry up?
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It was a coalition for funding, yeah, although it preceded the first AI winter I think. I’ve often wondered how anthropology got in there & what happened with that. Occurs to me now that “anthropology” may just have meant Gregory Bateson: he was influential in early cyberneticspic.twitter.com/UUJkd3lYU3
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