What AI did wrong, and an isomorphism of failure

General artificial intelligence has consistently failed. Although the number of problems thought to be general has been chipped away with narrow AI, the problem of generality shows no sign of being reduced.
At the same time, a theory of the organization of mind has been constructed from empirical data about the nature of learning. This has [...]

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A rule for creating rules for organizing a Libertarian society

I’m reading Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom”. I haven’t got very far in yet, but I’m at the part where he describes the early shift from economic liberalism (at its most successful peak) to socialist hubris. He explains that 19th century economic liberal “rules of thumb” were crude and overbroad, and their manifest problems caused [...]

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