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by stupidcar 1751 days ago
> For AI researchers to move past the behaviorist conflation of thought and action, the field needs to drink again from the philosophical waters that fed much AI research in the late 20th century, when the field was theoretically rich, albeit technically floundering.

Well, gosh. Fancy a professor of philosophy deciding that AI needs more philosophy. Clearly, if the price of making progress in the field is to engage in all this ugly mathematics and -eww- engineering, then it's no price worth paying.

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>Clearly, if the price of making progress in the field is to engage in all this ugly mathematics and -eww- engineering, then it's no price worth paying.

What makes you think the author is saying anything like this?