Yudkowsky makes a few major mistakes that are clearly visible now, like being dismissive of dumb, scaled, connectionist architectures
I don’t think that’s a mistake at all. Sure, they’ve given us impressive commercial products, but no progress towards AGI, so the dismissiveness is completely justified.
This doesn’t feel like a constructive way to engage with the zeitgeist here. Obviously Yudkowsky plus most people here disagree with you on this. As such, if you want to engage productively on this point, you should find a place better set up to discuss whether NNs uninformatively dead-end. Two such places are the open thread or a new post where you lay out your basic argument.
I don’t think that’s a mistake at all. Sure, they’ve given us impressive commercial products, but no progress towards AGI, so the dismissiveness is completely justified.
This doesn’t feel like a constructive way to engage with the zeitgeist here. Obviously Yudkowsky plus most people here disagree with you on this. As such, if you want to engage productively on this point, you should find a place better set up to discuss whether NNs uninformatively dead-end. Two such places are the open thread or a new post where you lay out your basic argument.