Clancy’s Aufbau was actually much better. The main characters were far more compelling. Better world building in general.

I think I saw that there was a startup in YC’s latest batch with that exact pitch, but I may be wrong.

Completely agreed. A replication with an eye to boundary conditions or interaction terms is very different than one focused on external validity or a straight up replication. Are we seeking a phenomenological/measurement replication? An intervention outcome? A mechanism characterization? Etc etc.

Personally, I don’t think we can ever realistically do more than triangulate in an approximate and perspectival realist way across contexts and setups and populations. But that is a very different kind of thing than what the replicationists tend to promote/advocate.

Ahh, ok. Got it! Thank you. That definitely makes sense.

I haven’t read Chang yet, but I’m not sure I get what you mean when you say that the replications don’t themselves necessarily constitute a pragmatically coherent endeavor/unit of epistemic action (if I’m understanding what you are suggesting)?

dynamics and socially productive nature of bubbles in the context of GPTs, and the critical role of experimentation when it comes to realizing gains are being underplayed by the anti crowd. Along with the fact that AI doesn’t have to be human-like to underwrite considerable value.

My argument is mainly more that both sides are doing more than a little picking and choosing to make their preferred case, rather than saying both are equally bad. The hyperbolic claims that AGI is imminent aren’t well grounded. But the economic importance of general purpose technologies, the

The e/acc community gets a lot wrong when it comes to AI. But so does the anti-AI community that has sprung up in response to the technology.

I haven’t read it, but Rescher had a book on aporetics that might be relevant here? From my understanding, it’s about how we (normatively?) should make tradeoffs/decisions when multiple assumptions are in conflict. I don’t know if there is a general theory of assumption underwriting this though?