René Girards Mimetic Theory and the AI Bubble @RahulSam
René Girards Mimetic Theory and the AI Bubble  @RahulSam
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René Girard famously wrote, “Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.” Perhaps this datum is seen most in the current AI paradigm.

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Abstraction, mimesis and the evolution of deep learning: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-023-01688-z

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