Apperceptive by Sam buttondown.com

Hello. My name is Sam. This newsletter is about self-driving cars, autonomy, machine learning, the human brain. I think that almost everybody building "AI" or self-driving or whatever underestimates the importance and sophistication of social cognition, and how big a part of human intelligence it is. Previously, I tried to fix that state of affairs by publishing research, and then by starting a company. Now I write about it here. The more people who understand it, the better. ![apperceptive_logo_new.png](https://assets.buttondown.email/images/623053d5-7927-4cfc-8ad4-d761589b84a7.png)

"AI" is bad UX
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Driving is a social process • Buttondown
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Supervision and truth
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What Waymo's NHTSA investigation says about how far along autonomous cars are
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Why those "training data poisoning" gimmicks don't really work
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Destructive investing and the siren song of software
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How LLMs are and are not like the brain
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The emptiness at the heart of emotion recognition
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How the field of "AI" got like this
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I knew this was coming
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The cost we bear
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Understanding (and) psychology
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The value-destroying potential of AI
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Helpful and unhelpful anthropomorphism
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Is artificial intelligence as a term per se racist?
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Knowing how to measure
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Self-serving thought experiments
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AI as UX
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LLMs, anthropocentric thinking, accuracy, and self-driving
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The story Waze tells about problems with autonomous cars
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