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The Argument Beneath AI
A century-old fight over prediction, calculation, and control
FROM METHODENSTREIT TO MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
For more than a century, economists, statisticians, engineers, computer scientists, and political theorists have disputed whether human systems can be explained, predicted, calculated, designed, and controlled by the same methods used for physical systems.
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Can Human Action Be Studied Like Physics?
The Methodenstreit: what counts as knowledge in the social sciences?