Three links for 2023-08-14
Weekly synchronicity
Here's three links:
"Tell the story has become the hallmark of the hustle. Give the folks a convincing, compelling tale and they’re yours, facts be damned." -- There’s much for me to disagree with in this piece, though the basic point is sound as David Corbett tells of The Grift of Fiction.
"The exchange between Wittgenstein and Turing seems to me a microcosm of many arguments and discussions that go on - or rather that fail to happen because one of the parties simply has not thought long, hard, deeply enough to know that they are wrong." -- Bruce Charlton writes of a familiar-to-me pattern in Wittgenstein versus Turing
"[W]e are building our entire global and national policy on the premise that generative AI will be world-changing in ways that may in hindsight turn out to have been unrealistic." -- Gary Marcus asks what happens if generative AI is yet another overheated hype-cycle. (I tend to agree.)
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