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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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Minsky loved new ideas and intellectual stimulation. However, his folks either kept their distance from SoM and even AI (like Sussman or Hillis), or they were expected to not be independent thinkers.
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Minsky and Chomsky were similar in this regard, and really did not get along.
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Interesting. I thought he lamented the abandonment of cybernetics and counted Norbert Weiner as a great thinker and friend.
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An Austrian science historian told me that he believed Minsky was the Lighthill of cybernetics and responsible for the anonymous Grand Review that shut down funding for cybernetics in the US, to gain more funding attention for AI.
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What’s the synthesizer theory of mind? Certainly interested to know more!
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