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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Replying to @Meaningness
lot of mythologizing about 'failure of logical positivism'. Are you specifically referring to Quine and Sellars' attacks in the 50s? Are those the lessons you mean? And are you thinking especially of Ayer's version?
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Not specifically Quine or Sellars. There turned out to be numerous problems, any one of which would be fatal. Historically, everyone gave up after Kuhn, although some people started giving up as early as the ‘30s, as the first fatal problems started showing up.
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Okay so you're not counting later work of Carnap and Reichenbach as LP? That's good.
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Replying to @_Srijit
Continuation of the project. Some people call the probabilistic versions “logical empiricism” but those also conclusively failed by the early ‘60s.
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Replying to @_Srijit
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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