The ashram, and an unlikely overlap with Berkeley engineering
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The Hindu-Buddhist ashram Jonathan Hare's mother belonged to, known in the family as Ramagiri and officially as the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation. Jim Michael introduced her to it.
Both Dreyfus brothers — Stuart, the Berkeley operations researcher, and Hubert, the philosopher — were members, which is why Hare knew one of his eventual doctoral advisors from childhood.
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Berkeley advisor — and the man who handed him Hinton's paper
Open →memberPhilosophy against artificial intelligence — and Hare's mother's employer
Open →introduced the familySurrogate father, and the punch cards at Evans Hall
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