Odd: web folk often see me as authority on Buddhism, despite disclaimers; no one takes seriously what I say about AI, despite credentials.
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Like economics, everyone feels entitled to their opinion about artificial intelligence based on reading a few articles in Wired and Salon.
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And maybe a few mass-audience books, but rarely even an undergraduate textbook. Why is this?
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No one feels entitled to opinion about biochemistry or rocket engineering or paleontology, even though those are exciting and controversial!
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Erroneous intuition: takes years learning technical stuff to understand rockets, but anyone can grok artificial intelligence, nothing to it!
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@Meaningness Pop AI writers, like with quantum, target an excitable audience of amateur philosophers. They invite meta level speculation.1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
@Black__Dwarf Hmm, yes; harder to do that with paleontology
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