mccarthy

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Essays

the wall they agreed on

essay draft 2026-07-28 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, combinatorial-explosion, control-theory, ai-winter

Everything else

Kwakernaak's LQG-control textbook authorship bridges the vault's Song Jian population-policy cluster to McCarthy's 1973 dismissal of control theory

observation seedling Tier 2 2026-08-24 · cross-domain-bridge, huibert-kwakernaak, control-theory, disciplinary-wall, mccarthy
McCarthy's 1973 Lighthill review located AI's central difficulty in knowledge representation, faulting Lighthill's 'non-standard' use of 'heuristics'

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, knowledge-representation, heuristics, symbolic-ai
McCarthy's 1973 Lighthill review named the GPS formalism directly as a source of AI's 'mistaken' published performance predictions

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, general-problem-solver, overconfident-prediction, ai-winter
Re-fetch of McCarthy's 1973 Lighthill-review page confirms the 'little relevance to AI' and heuristic/combinatorial-explosion quotes verbatim

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-19 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, control-theory, combinatorial-explosion, ai-winter
John McCarthy's 1973 rebuttal to the Lighthill report dismissed control theory as having 'little relevance to AI'

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, control-theory, optimal-control, ai-winter
Re-fetch McCarthy's 1973 Lighthill-review page and confirm the 'little relevance to AI' and heuristic/combinatorial-explosion quotes verbatim

question answered 2026-07-12 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, control-theory, verification, history-of-ml
The 1973 AI establishment named the wall: McCarthy called control theory 'little relevance to AI' — the field where backprop's ancestor already lived

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, control-theory, optimal-control, combinatorial-explosion