These are interesting examples, but they’re not what I envisioned from your original comment. (The Brooks example might be, but it’s the vaguest.)
A problem is that people gain status in high-level fights, so there is a lot of screening of who is allowed to make them. But the screening is pretty lousy and, I think, most high-level fights are fake. Are Chomsky’s followers so different from other linguists? Similarly, Brooks may have been full of bluster for status reasons that were not going to affect how the actual robots. It may be hard for outsiders to tell what’s really going on. But the bluster may have tricked insiders, too.
Also, “You don’t understand information theory,” while one sentence, is not a very effective one.
These are interesting examples, but they’re not what I envisioned from your original comment. (The Brooks example might be, but it’s the vaguest.)
A problem is that people gain status in high-level fights, so there is a lot of screening of who is allowed to make them. But the screening is pretty lousy and, I think, most high-level fights are fake. Are Chomsky’s followers so different from other linguists? Similarly, Brooks may have been full of bluster for status reasons that were not going to affect how the actual robots. It may be hard for outsiders to tell what’s really going on. But the bluster may have tricked insiders, too.
Also, “You don’t understand information theory,” while one sentence, is not a very effective one.