Yes… there’s still some proofs in high school geometry, I believe, but no real explanation of what a proof is and why you should care, so I suspect it’s totally forgotten at the end of the year
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
-
This. The significance and nature of proofs is not taught at school, and mostly not even understood by the teachers, because they don't understand the concept of epistemology.
1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
Right… and, unfortunately, I don’t think the MIT professors I had as a math undergraduate understood the issues involved at all well either. Anyway, were unwilling to discuss them!
2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
And then you ran into the
@rodneyabrooks and he irrevocably burned your brain because you had no epistemological defenses against his embodimentalism and you despaired and because a Buddhist1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Plinz @puellavulnerata and
Just for the historical record, Phil Agre and I got embodiment from Lucy Suchman and Hubert Dreyfus. Rod came to it independently at the same time (as did Leslie Kaelbling & Stan Rosenschein).
2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Meaningness @puellavulnerata and
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
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Plinz @Meaningness and
How did you seed your epistemological filter?
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @skbpf @Meaningness and
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.
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
When Dreyfus said "what computers cannot do", I thought he could not be talking about some hitherto unknown metaphysical truth of the noumenon, but must have been talking about what the classes of algorithms and models currently being used fall short of doing. And it made sense.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.