Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
by peterfirefly on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:22PM
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Freud doesn't belong in that group. Freud was a fraud.
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Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
by codeulike on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:17AM
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Right, I'm not really into Freudian therapy and a lot of his stuff was subjective rather than scientific. Freud is commonly put in that group because (a) he rather boldly declared himself part of it and (b) his name is a token for the idea of "we dont know ourselves as well as we think, and we are very capable of deceiving ourselves" ... this was an idea that was around a long time before freud but he formalised the vocabulary around it (subconscious etc) and so his name is now strongly associated with that idea.