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 …
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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I think a more moderate version of positivism is accepted by the majority of scientists today.
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Oh, sure, something vaguely in that direction is presumably more-or-less right.
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