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Sometimes It Seems As Though Each New Step Towards Ai, Rather Than Producing Something Which Everyone Agrees Is Real Intelligence, Merely Reveals What Real Intelligence Is Not.

The Strange Flavour Of Ai Work Is That People Try To Put Together Long Sets Of Rules In Strict Formalisms Which Tell Inflexible Machines How To Be Flexible.

Reductionism Is Merciless.

How Gullible Are You? Is Your Gullibility Located In Some "gullibility Center" In Your Brain? Could A Neurosurgeon Reach In And Perform Some Delicate Operation To Lower Your Gullibility, Otherwise Leaving You Alone? If You Believe This, You Are Pretty Gullible, And Should Perhaps Consider Such An Operation.

I Would Like To Understand Things Better, But I Don’t Want To Understand Them Perfectly.