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Gary Marcus on X: "Not the best cognitive psychology I have seen, because it confounds together abstract reasoning with domains where motivated reasoning is well-known to exist. Doesn’t show that humans can’t reason, but rather that they prefer not to. Strange also that the very long literature on" / X
Gary Marcus on X: "Not the best cognitive psychology I have seen, because it confounds together abstract reasoning with domains where motivated reasoning is well-known to exist. Doesn’t show that humans can’t reason, but rather that they prefer not to. Strange also that the very long literature on" / X
(Machine empire ahead?)
#Reasoning#Research
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Gary Marcus on X: "Not the best cognitive psychology I have seen, because it confounds together abstract reasoning with domains where motivated reasoning is well-known to exist. Doesn’t show that humans can’t reason, but rather that they prefer not to. Strange also that the very long literature on" / X
Two Nobel Prizes for AI, and Two Paths Forward
Two Nobel Prizes for AI, and Two Paths Forward
(The science awards potentially restore momentum to fields that may have been starved for either attention or funding, although merit is of primary value to them. Controversy would also be reinforcing in that respect. AI as influencer is interesting. The inverse might be disinformation and deepfakes in politics. Look out for emails from Feynman in the quantum multiverse that he discounted. Or Fermi outside the box.)
#Criticism#Awards#AI
·garymarcus.substack.com·
Two Nobel Prizes for AI, and Two Paths Forward