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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I think Egon Pearson was pretty much the only guy who thought p-values had anything to do with induction. It's sad how influential his view became.
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Yes, basically once NHST was turned into easily-runnable code, everyone turned their brains off.
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BTW, check out this paper from *1960*! http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2018/3/18/weekend-update-whats-your-favorite-p-valuenhst-fallacy-paper.html …
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Okay, here's one for you to check out (and likely agree with):http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0149206314547522 …
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Thanks! From the abstract: yes, I will probably agree!
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