I want to agree with this; but a little knowledge of stats can be worse than none. (Whereas trig is just a painful waste of time.) Can the intro course explain its own limits, and the dangers of misuse?https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/951282864498372608 …
When I read Dreyfus, I already had a strong epistemological filter in place, and was only parsing him as: what does he see that everybody else (Turing, Minsky, etc.) is missing? But to read him as primary indoctrination... OMG
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When I first read Dreyfus, I had completed a math undergrad degree, a master’s degree in AI, and extensive graduate work in mathematical logic. I was not naive…
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The essential insight is not about bodies but about the world: that it is radically unknowable, due to ontological nebulosity, and effective action has to work under that constraint
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How did you seed your epistemological filter?
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Confidence in a belief must equal the weight of the evidence for that belief. This leads to understanding that information is epistemologically primary; to produce an observation means to create a change in information, and all observable changes can be produced by computation.
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