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 don't think it's meant to be "right", it's meant to come up with things that are pragmatically valuable.
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Mmm, yes, that’s probably right :) I mean, science often works spectacularly well. I’m not an anti-rationalist at all. My project is to suggest ways to do rationality better by understanding what’s wrong with rationalism, not to undercut scientific rationality itself.
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Philosophers of that sort are now just called "empiricists", I think. E.g., what would you call Bas van Fraassen?
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