This is the strawiest of straw men. You well know that blank slate meant equipped for learning. Skinner was an evolutionist after all.
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“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.” – Immanuel Kant
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One of my main take away from "how the mind works" was: wow artificial intelligence is going to be hard. So much that needs to be built by hand.
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It’s called an analogy. It is very useful for illustration. But you can’t argue by analogy.
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The best blank slate hypothesis would be: innate mechanisms sufficient for efficient general learning. Not just blank. (Still wrong, I realize.)
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Yep. You get the same phenomenon in statistics too. Ed Jaynes has a great discussion in his book where he shows that a "poorly-informed robot" cannot learn generalisations that are obvious to humans.
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Wrong They sometimes fall off the rooves of houses and hit people
(Which funnily enough- happened during a storm when in college. School placed in lockdown, was locked in, decided to pick a random book off a shelf- and that was the first of many books of yours I've read
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Steven Pinker, what do you think about the new transgender madness ?
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Lesson of AI programming: Sitting in a room “normally,” not staring in a corner, is instinctual. After reading this in HTMW, I saw a comedian whose joke was a guy gets in an elevator and stands inches from the back wall like people do at the door.
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