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Herbert Simon, the anti-Philosopher.
I have previously taken some flack for being rather dismissive toward most of mainstream philosophy, and for treating AI as "real philosophy." Eliezer has an even stronger position of this type, and has taken flack for it as well.
But as this article explains, this is actually pretty normal among AI folk. Here's the abstract:
...Most practitioners consider AI a technical disciple aimed at the production of “smarter” artifacts. Skepticism for the high-minded ambitions of classical philosophy runs high... AI arose
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