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They keep trying to make "correlation is cognition" happen. Through asserting: 1️⃣ models with only correlationist powers (data and correlations over that data) work well & 2️⃣ our own cognitive powers are no different to these machines, which can only rehash the past. @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social 1/

They do this in a variety of ways, here's one tactic that directly hits the public through journalists and technology company logics. 2/

They also do this by compressing distortion and damaging the pre-existing meaning of AI, which while problematic is now turbocharged with harms. To fix this we need to do something to directoy address the malformed logics people adopt through thinking AI is a sensible technology. It's not! 4/

For the meaning of AI: I actually cringe when people think there's something deep to argument from ignorance — that because it's a vague term that something follows... Nothing follows except if we want to refine the term or its referents. 5/

Argument from ignorance in this context is very dangerous. It seems to licence particularly weird damage to scientific terms and ways of thinking. 6/

this is all while compression and information theory continues to languish i have novel work in this area without a phd

Sorry to hear this but yes this is a symptom and a cause indeed