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This current tech wave is nearly 100% solipsistic. ML is 1000s of years of human behavioral data digested into “inference” engines that automate biases. Metaverse is game worlds. Web3 is pure social proof. Even climate tech rests on signaling theaters with straws, carbon credits.
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Not that I have any issues with solipsism. It’s solipsism all the way down. Just a matter of degree. Just realized I’ve been going on about this for 6 years now. 🤯 This 2015 post has shaped nearly everything I’ve written since and am writing now,
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"robots" are anthropological automotion as intentional skeuomorphism to avoid a non-incremental yet simpler-tech factory redesign, because betting on sci-fi is less scary than betting on sustained high demand to realize the all-or-nothing investment. it's still lame.
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Don’t get this. Why are robots the new ground truth? Aren’t they trained on the same biases, unless you are talking exploration as a part it a la reinforcement learning….?
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