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George Strakhov
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George Strakhov writes Essays. Thoughts. Letters., a personal blog at essays.georgestrakhov.com about ai and philosophy. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “AI Is Not a Horse”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these essays for an analogy comparing AI to a horse, and for the 'Elvish technology' post on letting nature solve problems, which one commenter notes takes a long time.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- AI Is Not a Horse2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-01-21
- Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-05
What Hacker News says?
IMHO, the word agent is quickly becoming meaningless. The amount of agency that sits with the program vs. the user is something that changes gradually. So we should think about these things in terms of how much agency are we willing to give away in each case and for what gain[1]. Then the ecosystem question that the paper is trying to solve will actually solve itself, because it is already the case today that in man…
Comment linking /artificial-agency-ladder/
on “Agents Are Not Enough”Submitted Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology as a story · 212 points
HN discussionReminds me of this sentence in this post about ‘Elvish technology’ https://essays.georgestrakhov.com/elvish/ > The Elves do not imitate nature, they let nature do its magic and try to help it as best as they can. Allowing nature to solve a problem is extremely effective and efficient. The only downside is that it usually takes a lot of time - precisely the thing that the immortals have plenty of.
Comment linking /elvish/
on “The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence”Submitted The Future Belongs to the Weird as a story · 104 points
HN discussionHere's some further reading: AI is not a horse [1] Is AI a horse or a zebra? [2] Horse Sense about AI [3] What do horses and AI have in common? [4] Horse rides astronaut [5] Horses explain AI to us [6] [1] https://essays.georgestrakhov.com/ai-is-not-a-horse/ [2] https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/lu_law_review/vol19/iss4/... [3] https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/horse-sense-about-ai/ [4] https://prajakta.medium.com…
Comment linking /ai-is-not-a-horse/
on “AI Is a Horse (2024)”Submitted Show HN: Seek-Reject-Frame: a new proposed architecture for Freudian Agents as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAI is not a horse (2023) https://essays.georgestrakhov.com/ai-is-not-a-horse/
Comment linking /ai-is-not-a-horse/
on “AI Is a Horse (2024)”Submitted Cargo Cult Intelligence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gods Have to Play Dice as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cambrian Explosion of Software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI is not a NOT a horse (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twenty Three Points on Microconsciousness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Artificial Agency Ladder (an essay written by Claude and me) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Questions from Under the Rug as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Test of Prometheus as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Is Not a Horse as a story · 1 points
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