13/ So what's a better way to think about AI: Pinker was right that Moravec's Pardox is the most significant idea in AI so far. Here's why
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14/ Moravec's paradox revealed that early AI was more about anthropomorphism in problem choices by early pioneers than about cognition
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15/ Due credit to pioneers, but it is no accident that they pursued same metrics that a) inform IQ b) they aced to become academics
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16/ Current AI research is extremely exciting not just because it is higher powered but because it is getting away from anthopomorphic roots
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17/ Given this important break from our own conceits, ideas like the Singularity are not just scientifically ill-posed but reactionary
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18/ AI scaremongering is fundamentally an attempt to reimpose an anthropocentric narrative on work that is following a new narrative
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19/ Once you get rid of anthropocentric lenses, you realize that same mechanisms that worked with other technology risks will work here
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Interesting points! But what other lens must we consider, besides anthropocentric? Tomatocentric? Spooncentric? Human = lens.
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in this case most people take humans as individuals then miss the forest for the trees. the intelligence is in the network.
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could just be a misinterpretation giving the substrate we are using to talk. also substrate is a fancy word.
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