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 …
Well… that’s interesting… I didn’t think anyone took Carnap or Reichenbach seriously nowadays. Hardly anyone has ever even heard of them.
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Well Less Wrong is basically Reichenbach, so it filtered through somehow.
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Erm. I see what you are saying. I think this is probably not direct influence, but rather endless reinvention of pentagonal wheels, generation after generation, because those who do not learn intellectual history are doomed to repeat it.
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