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  1. Mar 2023
    1. We go around assuming ours is a world in which speakers — people, creators of products, the products themselves — mean to say what they say and expect to live with the implications of their words. This is what philosopher of mind Daniel Dennett calls “the intentional stance.” But we’ve altered the world. We’ve learned to make “machines that can mindlessly generate text,” Bender told me when we met this winter. “But we haven’t learned how to stop imagining the mind behind it.”

      Intentional Stance

      We (mostly) assume people mean what they say. What happens when we live in a world where we can no longer assume that.

  2. Feb 2023
    1. The intentional stance is the strategy of interpretingthe behavior of an entity ... by treating it as if it were arational agent ”

      Definition of "intentional stance"

      We use anthropomorphic language as a shortcut for conveying a concept...giving an inanimate object agency to interact with the world as humans do as a way of plain-language explaining what is happening.

  3. Oct 2020