I am not sure if this dichotomy is a helpful one but we can see Templarrr as stating that there is a theoretic ‘failing’ which need not be mutually exclusive with the pragmatic ‘usefulness’ of a theory. Both of you can be right and that would still mean that it is worthwhile to think up how to ameliorate/solve the theoretical problems posed and not devalue (or discontinue) the work being done in the pragmatic domain.
I am not sure if this dichotomy is a helpful one but we can see Templarrr as stating that there is a theoretic ‘failing’ which need not be mutually exclusive with the pragmatic ‘usefulness’ of a theory.
That was what I was also trying to say, in a very pithy way : )
All these criticism can be true, and AGI can still be an existential threat.
I am not sure if this dichotomy is a helpful one but we can see Templarrr as stating that there is a theoretic ‘failing’ which need not be mutually exclusive with the pragmatic ‘usefulness’ of a theory. Both of you can be right and that would still mean that it is worthwhile to think up how to ameliorate/solve the theoretical problems posed and not devalue (or discontinue) the work being done in the pragmatic domain.
That was what I was also trying to say, in a very pithy way : )