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Isn't the early MIT AI Lab a counterexample: that you can have smart people with basically free reign make big strides (such as HAKMEM)? My understanding is th
by indigochill 8y ago
Isn't the early MIT AI Lab a counterexample: that you can have smart people with basically free reign make big strides (such as HAKMEM)?
My understanding is they had very minimal supervision but effectively endless money from government funding.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoAren't PARC and SkunkWorks another counterexamples? Hell, wasn't most progress in science and technology in the post-WWII era stemming from free rein and unlimited budgets of the Cold War period?
- fnord123 8y agoSounds like survivorship bias. What about MKULTRA? That's free rein and afaik an unlimited budget.
- dahauns 8y agoWell, there's "free reign", and there's Best-of-its-kind-in-the-world-University, DARPA-funded free reign.
- stephengillie 8y agoThere's Ayn Randism, and there's 20% time. These have wildly different utility to society.