I am not getting fat, I am becoming anti fragile
Marvin Minsky's friends were all very much unlike him, and his fiercest enemies appeared to be not very much unlike him.
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A lot of concepts that are obviously nonsensical when understood through the lens of mainstream culture can be fixed when changing their referent (example: god and soul). But what is the fixing referent of "body" when the speaker says that “mind and body are a complete unity”?
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I wonder how much of the placebo effect is about patients stopping to complain when they notice that the ineffective meds probably won’t work at a higher dose either?
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Marvin Minsky loved surprising ideas from others and generated a bunch of his own. He must have been the ultimate friend to the misfits who loved the same. Enemies, I suppose, were those who were ideologically stuck in place or in boring agreement.
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Minsky ruthlessly shut down numerous projects that he did not agree with. The most famous you heard of was neural networks (for a decade), the most famous you did not hear of was cybernetics, and there were unknown ones, like an amazing synthesizer theory of the mind.
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Not surprising in context of Academia. Outside of that I'm not so sure.
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