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A critique of modern AI's strategic focus, contrasting simplistic Reinforcement Learning with the intentionality required for true agentic intelligence.
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Yes. I think we're living in a world now which is a little bit too led by the strategic inferential. And I think it's going to be felt. I think we're already feeling it because there's a, how to put it, there's a certain sterility to my experience with AIs. And I think it the want of a better word It doesn have the art in it Definitely I mean that
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I don’t have a favourite philosopher, partly because I find that kind of thing cultish, but mostly... See more
I don’t have a favourite philosopher, partly because I find that kind of thing cultish, but mostly... See more
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