Lumifer comments on SHRDLU, understanding, anthropomorphisation and hindsight bias - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 07 April 2014 09:59AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 07 April 2014 03:34:21PM -2 points [-]

There doesn't seem to be any point to this post.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 07 April 2014 03:38:17PM *  2 points [-]

The point of this post was to illustrate how the GOFAI people could have got so much wrong and yet still be confident in their beliefs, by looking at what the results of one experiment - SHRDLU - must have felt like to those developers at the time. The post is partially to help avoid hindsight bias: it was not obvious that they were going wrong at the time.