Doh, don't know why I didn't spot this glaring connection between ML generated outputs and Frankfurtian bullshit.
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And thinking about it, this is a restatement of point that humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences. "Not general intelligences" may be synonomous with bs producers/consumers. "Concentration" = truth-looped?
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Bullshit in this epistemological sense is not a moral failure, but an incomplete cognition mode. It corresponds to the upstream part of what Daniel Dennett called the "multiple drafts" view of consciousness. First you confabulate, then you discriminate.
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This is why embodiment is important. It is obviously important in closing "physics" based truth loops (if you think there is no obstacle where there is an obstacle, you will experience a collision). But it is also important in logic-based internal coherence truth loops
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Ie, things that are purely abstract might feel like you're doing theorem-prove in your head, but in practice, what we actually do is apply intuitions via domain theories of embodied reference. 2+2=4 is about embodied counting (eg apples) before it is about peano axioms
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Even pure mathematicians working with symbols use subtle things like visual symmetry in written equations and rewrite rules that draw on intuitions from mechanical manipulation... ie physics-like embodied cognition.
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In fact, I'd even argue that there is no variety of complete cognition (ie a generation + discrimination production pipeline with a truth loop) that can be disembodied. At the very least, your disembodied AI will need a simulation to live in to grow beyond pure bullshitting.
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Note that this is the opposite of autism. Autists let even minor sensory errors propagate to consciousness as a discordance, like the scratch of a tag on your shirt or noise from multiple conversations. Wambs, on the other hand, suppress all discordance pre-consciously.
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That's what I was getting at with the Doge Matter joke in ribbonfarm.com/2018/03/13/jus
The Bullshit connection seems obvious in retrospect. Bravo to them.
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