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2. Porr, L. Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking. https://adolos.substack.com/ (2020).
It's kinda interesting to go back and review the comments on that submission:
> This is either something written by GPT-3, or the human equivalent. Zero substantive content, pure regurgitation.
>> Maybe you're new here, but your comment punches below the belt and isn't acceptable in a community like this.
>> If you disagree, be civil and give reasons rather than throw insults.
But, of course, many of them won't hold themselves accountable for what happens.
Now I'll be a bit more skeptical when I see something that seems a bit hollow like that piece does.
Human philosphers often make the error of assuming that all intelligent behaviour is a form of reasoning. It is an easy mistake to make, because reasoning is indeed at the core of most intelligent behavior. However, intelligent behavior can arise through other mechanisms as well. These include learning (i.e., training), and the embodiment of a system in the world (i.e. being situated in the environment through sensors and effectors).
It reminded me of another post I saw on hacker news (Losing the Narrative - The Genre Fiction of the Professional Class https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23662750)
The phenomenon of "intelligent behavior" totally divorced from reasoning is always on my mind. Like "emergent behavior" in immersive sim games, or boids & flocking algorithms.. or schools shuffling classrooms every 14 minutes to work around coronavirus guidelines...