GOFAI mostly recapitulated logical positivism, because the lessons of its failure were lost. Contemporary rationalism mostly recapitulates the errors of 1980s AI, because the lessons of its failures were lost.https://twitter.com/jonathanstray/status/1006951967653064704 …
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I think Egon Pearson was pretty much the only guy who thought p-values had anything to do with induction. It's sad how influential his view became.
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Yes, basically once NHST was turned into easily-runnable code, everyone turned their brains off.
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Also, you are aware that the Less Wrongers in particular reject logical positivism, right?
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Everyone has rejected logical positivism since 1962. However, no one has any alternative approach for most of the problems LP tried to solve.
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Yeah. The meta-problems of systematization doesn't mean we can't have better methods though. I personally hope for better replication in the future.
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Yes, I think the reform effort in psychology, particularly, is exciting and should help a lot!
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No besmirching of logical empiricism on the timeline!
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