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Reasoning means things like this: suppose you are holding a ball and want to make it drop. A rule of inference tells you that if you release it, it will drop. You can then reason o…

Producing a simulated toddler is way beyond our current capabilities, no matter how much simulated experience we give it. We simply don't know (yet) how to program said toddler's b…

Do many "otherwise smart" people actually believe "superhuman machine intelligence is prima facie ridiculous"? I'd like to see some citations :-). I think smart people tend to have…

I find it odd that AI risk has become such a hot topic lately. For one, people are getting concerned about SMI at a time when research toward it is totally stalled---and I say that…

I think there's some truth to what you say about Chomskyan linguistics being dogmatic. But linguists aren't really playing the same game as the people in (e.g.) statistical machine…