marginalium noun

the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

relaxed ai skepticism

January 29, 2025

source: backofmind.substack.com

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

Relaxed AI skepticism. Short but a nice counter to the swings and roundabouts elsewhere:

AI, like every other information technology, will end up creating complexity as well as processing it, that the robots will get in each other’s way just like we do, and that consequently we are going to systematically overestimate the benefits of the technology during the initial phase

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