Re:The media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy
by NarcolepticFrog on Sunday January 13, 2019 @01:40PM
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I whole-heartedly agree. This is one of the reasons I think that education about AI and ML is important (and, on the flip side, I also think that it wouldn't hurt to educate AI and ML researchers/engineers about humanist issues so that they can participate in non-technical debate).
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Re:The media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy
by sanxiyn on Sunday January 13, 2019 @03:00PM
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I found there's not much to learn about "humanist" issues, in the sense of background knowledge of consensus of the field. United States and North Korea agree on nuclear physics: they use the exactly same number for cross section. They don't agree much on humanist issues.
Re:The media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy
by pjc50 on Monday January 14, 2019 @05:27AM
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> United States and North Korea agree on nuclear physics: they use the exactly same number for cross section. They don't agree much on humanist issues.
This is true but concluding that therefore there's "not much to learn" seems like the worst possible way of resolving this conflict.
Re:The media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy
by chobeat on Sunday January 13, 2019 @04:05PM
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"humanist issues" are about the management (not the solution) of unsolvable disagreements. The knowledge is different in nature from scientific knowledge but for no reason should it be considered inferior. By thinking this way you just exclude yourself from any discourse and just hinder your condition.