Would you still be interested in tech X if no one else thought it mattered? Why?
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I'd say that the ability to ignore groupthink, and reason on your own about a hyped-up new technology, from first principles, is one of the most important qualities to have as a technologist. Rare, maybe because it requires extensive familiarity with tech & econ first principles
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This applies to subfields of deep learning research (among other things)
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Very few people if any are aware of their own groupthink.
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There's a curious difficulty here. In the early days of understanding, you need to take a lot of things on faith and defer to others, in order to bootstrap your own understanding.
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But as you build that understanding up, you gradually start to arrive at a point where you've internalized much of the best prior points of view.
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Absolutely! It does take hard work to learn stuff though. Groupthink makes it possible hide behind 'nobody was ever fired for buying ...' type of mantra
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It's hard to comprehend why (some) people just don't want to think for themselves. Together with good health and time, it's a priceless wealth.
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Cranks aside, reading about an entirely new viewpoint/approach on some existing problem is always worthwhile. Sidestep existing dead ends.
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You should look in the mirror. Your blind acceptance of Darwinian evolution and materialism is 100% groupthink, a religion of nerds. This is why you people have 0 chance of figuring AGI. Zilch. It does not matter how intelligent you think you are. AGI will surprise all of you.
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The groupthink of mainstream AI is the reason that they have not come up with anything better than backprop in decades. And,
@DeepMindAI and@demishassabis notwithstanding, most of us know that backprop has nothing to do with AGI. Never did.
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