The quasi-religion founded by Franz Boas that, in conjunction with the Frankfurt School, threw a monkey-wrench into the foundation of the West's scientific rationalism. In its stead, we have "social sciences" that can't figure out the difference between Shannon Information and Algorithmic Information because, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -- Upton Sinclair.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-mismeasure-of-stephen-jay-gould On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 2:08 AM ducis <[email protected]> wrote: > > What do you mean by "Boaspawn infestation of Google"? > > At 2020-10-10 05:34:03, "James Bowery" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't help but suspect that the _real_ reason we're 10 years into Legg's > Measures of Machine Intelligence and still not using it, despite Legg > co-founding Google DeepMind, is the Boaspawn infestation of Google, secondary > to network effect rents attracting all manner of rentiers highly evolved to > sniff out economic rent from 10,000 miles away -- sending them into a frenzy. > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 1:27 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If only the IQ test hadn't been deep-sixed by Boaspawn. >> >> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:39 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020, 9:24 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> HA! >>>> >>>> https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/10/training-exceeds-gpt3/ >>> >>> >>> I find it interesting that we needed a new, harder NLP benchmark, >>> Superglue, because systems were already scoring above human level in GLUE. >>> The appendix of the Superglue paper has some example problems. They would >>> be hard for a lot of humans. >>> >>> So I guess AGI is solved. Or will we keep raising the bar? If a computer >>> can do it, then it's not intelligence. > > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + participants + > delivery options Permalink ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T6761a13445e5864b-M365b085f28bc48dcc86e2dc2 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
