Post #1565056

2026-04-19 10:32 UTC

This piece is so good. &gt; Not because you were special. You just thought you were special, and that&#39;s the problem. https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/ignore-the-humanities-at-your-own-peril/ Remember what you said yesterday about inequality, @gjmwoods ?

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@ghost_letters@fosstodon.org 2026-04-19 11:42

@rotnroll666 @gjmwoods > Correct, but that doesn't hurt my feelings. Computer science is also not a science That sounds like hurt feelings to me. And who woulnd't feel at least a bit dis-respected when people talk bad about something you studied for years. So everyone should avoid this kind of talking-down other peoples studies. Anyway, I wonder about a different part:

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@poutsma@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 14:16

@rotnroll666 "We as computer scientists not only vastly overestimate our abilities to create an AGI, we vastly underestimate and underrepresent what behavioral scientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, neurologists, social scientists, and even the poets, philosophers and storytellers of the world know about what it means to be human." - @gradybooch https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/agi-will-not-happen-in-your-lifetime

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