New blog post: Observations on the "war" between the Symbol Slayers and Symbol Savers (aka Connectionists and Symbolists). Promise I won't bore you with details of the "war" but will talk about something more general -- The Doers vs. The Clarion Callers.
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by other terminology, lumpers and splitters: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers_a (though those map better onto connectionists/symbolists than onto doing/talking)
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Interesting that to create an AGI is ultimately to create something that can become a lumper or a splitter.
Which natural general intelligence (NGI) is more qualified to do that? One positioned as a lumper or as a splitter...?
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I would expect it to be both, the whole point of the distinction is that there's no single best way, people try to achieve good problem domain fit but their problem domains may look very different from each other's