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'(·)@allgebrah·Jan 11, 2017Replying to @gwern"google maps is not an agent" and yet it does things like this http://bldgblog.com/2017/01/the-season-of-burning-trucks/…21
'(·)@allgebrah·Jan 11, 2017Replying to @allgebrah and @gwernmaybe I'm just rephrasing you here, but tool AI and a company using it combine into an agent AI (albeit with a longer feedback loop)21
'(·)@allgebrah·Jan 11, 2017Replying to @allgebrah and @gwernno such thing as a real-world boxed AI; if you make maps that people use, you can expect them to impact the territory11
'(·)@allgebrah·Jan 11, 2017Replying to @allgebrah and @gwernso it seems less a choice between tool and agent, and more one between crippled ill-understood agent and better-understood agent1
'(·)@allgebrahReplying to @allgebrah and @gwernreason I'm so excited about this: a *very* similar thing crops up in a philosophy of magic(k) I'm collecting material for12:13 AM · Jan 12, 2017·Twitter Web Client
'(·)@allgebrah·Jan 12, 2017Replying to @allgebrah and @gwernwhere science is descriptive, concerned with models, while magic is about how those models form the worldQuote Tweet'(·)@allgebrah·Oct 7, 2016Replying to @allgebrah and @sarahdoingthingbased on the descriptive/manipulative distinction; need a good magical counterpart to the experiment, maybe the REPL?11
'(·)@allgebrah·Jan 12, 2017Replying to @allgebrah and @gwernthe scientific method works in a space where your predictions don't affect the outcome. that breaks down in the 'softer' sciences1