I thought about that in the context of politicians some time ago. Telling the truth doesn't pay off. People don't get excited if you make realistic promises. People want you to solve all their problems, and when people believe that, it ends up creating some messianic figures.
Whether in AI or in politics, it seems the secret to becoming a media darling is to continuously tell sensationalist lies. Incentives are stacked against realism and pragmatism.
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And the fun thing is that these kind of Messiahs are not really good, almost by definition. They are either dishonest or simply misguided in a Dunning-Kruger effect kind of way.
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Humans update priors in a quasi-rational Bayesian way - if we see confidence, we automatically assume that the actor will deliver on promises/knows what he's doing and assign higher mean belief to his potential.
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Well said, but please rephrase as gender neutral.
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AI and politics are like a pool, everyone wants to swim into these, irrespective of their knowledge.
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Realism and pragmatism don't make stories which you can sell, but sensationalist lies do.
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Both are heavily subject to Alberto Brandolini's quote: "The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."
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"There is nothing that can stop terrible ideas and memes from spreading"
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Im sure
@RichardDawkins could provide us some light on that. This is an old story!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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