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>implies some kind of gain in human knowledge

I find that a strange take. Almost all scientific advancement ends in one thing. Another set of unanswered questions. Quite often we gain more knowledge, but know less because we realize there are thousands more questions we should have been asking.

For example, theory of mind being observed out of just processing language is a big arrow that we may have been thinking about many things wrong in the past and open new avenues for 'scientific' tests that give us answers.



It's got to have shaken up the field of cognitive research or people studying mind/consciousness.

Is there a "hacker news" of theory of mind researchers? Probably some interesting conversations happening over there.




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