This desideratum is called “behaviorism,” but even B. F. Skinner (probably) would’ve admitted that sometimes an animal is “seeking food” or “seeking shelter,” which, to be blunt, is definitely modeling the animal’s mind, even if it’s couched in language of behavior. I’m not convinced any (normal intelligence) humans are (or ever have been) behaviorists in the way Yudkowsky uses the word, and I leave it to him to argue that this is possible.
...Yes, they have. Behaviorism is recent enough that there have been echoes in my courses of linguistics and psychology. Hell, I still see idiots scientists that argue that we can model language through its corpus (collection of texts), without modeling what system generates them. One of them literally said “in some sense, corpus is language”.
Now, this is an extremely bad model of working with cognition, but it has had more sway than you think.
Unless, of course, you mean that anyone who has a stimulus-reaction tableau is ipso facto modeling the mind that emulates that policy via that tableau, which is possibly true but not what’s usually meant by “modeling a mind”.
...Yes, they have. Behaviorism is recent enough that there have been echoes in my courses of linguistics and psychology. Hell, I still see
idiotsscientists that argue that we can model language through its corpus (collection of texts), without modeling what system generates them. One of them literally said “in some sense, corpus is language”.Now, this is an extremely bad model of working with cognition, but it has had more sway than you think.
Unless, of course, you mean that anyone who has a stimulus-reaction tableau is ipso facto modeling the mind that emulates that policy via that tableau, which is possibly true but not what’s usually meant by “modeling a mind”.