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I was simply wondering about this: 1) Dreyfus argues that much human thought/action arises from nonformalizable processes. 2) In the…
I don’t see any connection between the knowing how/that issue and LLM opacity. Can you elaborate?
Clune’s distinction seems to me exactly right, with one qualification. Dreyfus’s original target was largely what later came to be…
It is still relevant. But perhaps someone will offer an argument why it is not.
My sense is that the Dreyfus critique was aimed primarily at what was called “good old fashioned ai,” an ultimately…
A quick comment before I’ve read the piece: It seems pertinent to both the debates and the assessment of the…
Mößner, N. and Erlach, K. (eds) (2026) Vermessene Philosophie: Konstruktion und Kontrolle wissenschaftlicher Expertise im digitalen Raum. London: Ubiquity Press.…
Glad to see Krugman saying this in a very public forum. Of course, since what he says is rational and factual, it will have no impact on the debate. There are, after all, much more powerful considerations at work.
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