There is a bug in the foundations of sociology that makes it sometimes intellectually permissible to characterize historical facts by their distance to a single unreflected moral matrix (usually today's prototype of the shared ideology of the observers). I blame Weber and Marx.
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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
I think that the correct order of producing thoughts aims at maximizing expected increase in the desired model qualities.
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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
Social justice as a movement is not interested in maximizing justice per se, but in changing the social perception of what's just.
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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
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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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
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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Replying to @DKedmey @davidarredondo
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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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
Minsky said (paraphrasing) that he & Pushpinder Singh were so in sync they had a shot at building SoM, but after Singh’s sudden death, he couldn’t find a partner worth working with in that capacity. Touching, inspiring and leaves me wondering...what could have resulted?
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Replying to @DKedmey @davidarredondo
Yes, I know. I have even seen the Lisp code that tried to mimic the spec in SoM. (But I don't think that SoM is a spec! SoM needs to emerge over something much more elementary, I think. Symbolic AI was a mistake!)
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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
Very cool. You have rare access into this corner of A.I. history. Would you share more about it? Worth a more in depth blog post if you’re up to it...
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I'd rather not, but I agree that it is fascinating and I am grateful that I could meet some of the people and I really love them from the bottom of my heart.
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