“You waste years of your life on dreadful AI designs based around suggestively named LISP tokens.” → Actually it’s worse. Any theory of mind that contradicts subjective experience must dismiss it (cf Behaviorism). Experience is an axiomatic fact. Putting theory before facts locally destroys science and stalls any attempt to progress beyond that point—it becomes a “semantic stop-sign”.
“You waste years of your life on dreadful AI designs based around suggestively named LISP tokens.” → Actually it’s worse. Any theory of mind that contradicts subjective experience must dismiss it (cf Behaviorism). Experience is an axiomatic fact. Putting theory before facts locally destroys science and stalls any attempt to progress beyond that point—it becomes a “semantic stop-sign”.