I won't try to summarize Reza's answer—in part, I think, because it would be a really good way to show I don't understand it! That's not a mystical statement (this isn't the Tractatus), but rather a claim that he's provided some really good tools to think about the problem.
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I honestly Reza has *the best book* on the philosophy of intelligence out there, and one that can be profitably read by non-philosophers who want to break out of a set of mental boxes that created by the superintelligence crowd.
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I'm really bad at selling books. Let me try again.
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A few years ago, Alva Noë came out with Strange Tools, on aesthetics. It's not a theory of beauty, but a theory of what art is doing in the world. Not socially (Bordieu), but "what the task is that, in striving for it, puts something in the art category". https://amzn.to/3a0Sc9m
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When you try to do science on "art", bad accounts of what it is mean that you skitter off to one side, and end up actually talking about class, or economics. So good ones really matter.
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I think Reza has done something similar for intelligence.
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We're in a deadlock right now, and the next generation of AI researchers is going to be disappointed by the ideas we have about what they were promised (AGI), why it's not here yet, and why the approaches are clearly not going to get us there.
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Secretly, I think Reza's ideas will show up in the right circles in ten years, both among the practitioners, and their funders. So, very selfishly, it's a way to stay ahead of the curve.
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You're generous. The book was more like a ground work and like all ground works it was built in the messy realm of dirt and water with some ideas still in their infancy. Plan to publish much shorter book mostly focused on the intersections between language, logic and computation.
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