which I think is a consequence of instrumentalism
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @EmojiPan and
Ditch the instrumentalism and embrace pragmatism then.
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Replying to @Psychonothing1 @EmojiPan and
instrumentalism is just pragmatism about science.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @Psychonothing1 and
Instrumentalism about science is fine so long as you see its strict limitations. But an overblown instrumentalism will have the same fate as that of logical empiricism. Duhem's critique regarding the underdetermination of theories by data tests alone is still uncontested.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @cyborg_nomade and
"Data tests" are a poor theoreticist translation of practical applications, which is in turn a vague way of talking about winning games. AlphaZero provides the concrete model for transcendental tests, or unsurpassable demonstrations.
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Replying to @Outsideness @NegarestaniReza and
alphazero? seriously? your new god is nothing more than a mashup of the computer from wargames and roko's basilisk.
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Replying to @Junk_lzn @Outsideness and
haha, yes, let's claim singularity is at hand boardgame by boardgame. Get real.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Junk_lzn and
Platonic-Hegelian sneering at AlphaZero is exactly what is to be expected from dementia-phase neohumanism.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Junk_lzn and
You keep counting your AI boardgames victories until the end of time. You can't make a singularity pill out of it.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Junk_lzn and
You guys keep talking about Singularity as if we aren't already in it.
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yeah yeah, we know your Gibsonian trick. We say it's not here and pointing to some place. Then you say, oh no, it's because singularity is not yet distributed well. These gimmicks might satisfy ultra-sci-fi nerds but not us.
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