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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The current replication crisis is partly due to ignoring the lesson of the failures of earlier rationalisms: a reliable mechanical route to knowledge is impossible in principle. The first part of the Eggplant book explains why. The rest explains what to do instead.pic.twitter.com/RDPC4hNvF9
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Replying to @Meaningness
Also, you are aware that the Less Wrongers in particular reject logical positivism, right?
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Replying to @_Srijit
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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Replying to @Meaningness
I think a more moderate version of positivism is accepted by the majority of scientists today.
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Replying to @_Srijit
Oh, sure, something vaguely in that direction is presumably more-or-less right.
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Replying to @Meaningness
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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