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I liked the history lesson, but I think the analogy to modern anxieties about AI was a bit stretched. It's the first I've heard that "analysis" was meant to be
by jvanderbot 3y ago
I liked the history lesson, but I think the analogy to modern anxieties about AI was a bit stretched. It's the first I've heard that "analysis" was meant to be akin to an intelligent mind's methods. This read more like a modern re-imagining of a time when mathematics was in upheaval with new methods.
- constantcrying 3y agoI do not think it is much of a reach, Leibniz by that point had already conxeptualized the computer and believed that all questions could be answered by it.