@joXn @Meaningness If I wanted to be super nitpicky I could point out that "smoke" just denotes a visible plume of hot air.
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@joXn@Meaningness And inasmuch as the smoke & hot plume are identical, he is in fact talking abt the turbulent dynamics of the air column.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@joXn@Meaningness But this is drifting away, or diffusing, from the critical points he's making. The language of chaos theory...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@joXn@Meaningness ...disappoints--25 years later. Well, we were all fooled like that at the time. I sure was.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@Meaningness Yeah, this is why I thought that the one weakness was the chaos reference, which wasn’t really necessary.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@Meaningness A friend of mine called this a “catalogy” — a correspondence between two concepts leaving you more confused about both.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness Websearch on Agre gives this http://cobb.typepad.com/cobb/2012/05/how-phil-agre-is-wrong-about-conservatism.html … and a bunch of stuff about him going missing2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness What work of his would you point to as interesting/useful1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@St_Rev Most of what we wrote then was addressed to AI-as-it-was, which is now of zero interest, and pretty opaque.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Does Douglas Hofstadter fall into “AI-as-it-was”?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - 5 more replies
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