AI / AGI Eliminations
A three-post sequence tracing what got eliminated to produce the field’s current vocabulary: cybernetics’ renaming at Dartmouth, the behavioral criterion installed by the Turing Test, and the paradigm collapse driven by capital and hardware between 2017 and 2026.
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The Dartmouth Cut
How the 1956 Dartmouth conference renamed cybernetics out of cognitive science, and what got eliminated from the theory of mind as a result.
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The Imitation Filter
Turing's 1950 behavioral criterion for intelligence became the field's permanent definition. The epistemology that required it collapsed; the filter didn't.
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The Capital Filter
The 2017–2026 scaling consolidation eliminated paradigm diversity, researcher diversity, and time horizons by investment selection, not refutation.