You can tell Western thought long ago fell into dogmatism because there have been no serious, systematic attempts to understand technology. Our philosophy, economics, and political science is trapped in the 18th century, before anyone knew how transformative technology would be.
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Why are you ignoring all the thinking that went on in the second half of the 20th century? Cybernetics, Steward Brand’s cluster of modernists, AI, literature from Lem to Egan and Gibson, and the current thinkers, like Harari? Just because the humanities are defunct?
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Replying to @Plinz @mr_scientism
Lots of lost gems can be found in Cybernetics. Most AI folks have forgotten about that field but it's extremely relevant today.
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AI is mostly engineering, but Turing, von Neumann, Minsky and others thought deeply and broadly.
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Drescher, Hillis, Wiener, ...
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AI is over half a century old. Good AI research requires digging up ancient manuscripts.
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Especially since most of the foundational ideas were discovered between 1930 and 1980.
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Correction: Wittgenstein basically preempted the entire core of the logicist program of AI in 1918...
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