@St_Rev @Meaningness A friend of mine called this a “catalogy” — a correspondence between two concepts leaving you more confused about both.
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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 -
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@joXn General consensus was that GEB was big fun but that his COPYCAT system was naive and silly.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@joXn Generally, all AI people thought all the other AI people were naive and silly, though. And all of us were correct about that.
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@Meaningness@joXn I have a certain respect for isolated weirdos who remain devoted to the same idea for decades, regardless of the idea.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mtraven@joXn Yeah, http://meaningness.com is basically just a re-write of my PhD thesis, so.0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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