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perceptrons

30 notes carry this tag — 9 claims, 6 observations, 3 questions, 11 captures, 1 myth. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• SRI's neural-net group retooled toward symbolic AI around 1965–66, years before Minsky and Papert's Perceptrons was published in 1969 — the social closure predates the formal refutation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, perceptrons
• Dreyfus's 1988 essay and Olazaran's 1993 SRI interviews converge on the same verdict — connectionism's mid-1960s eclipse was social closure, not scientific refutation — while naming different social mechanisms
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, sociology-of-science
• Minsky's own 'the perceptron project was really dead' testimony is a documented instance of the 'retrospective illusion' Dreyfus's 1988 paper warns the victors will produce
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · dreyfus, minsky, connectionism, perceptrons, sociology-of-science
• What genuinely connects Dreyfus & Dreyfus's 1988 vindication claim and SRI's ARPA-funding retooling: independent evidence for the same 'never refuted, socially displaced' verdict
  capture promoted 2026-08-13 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, sociology-of-science
• The 'Perceptrons killed connectionism' myth only half-fits Skinner's taxonomy — its causal-attribution component falls outside all four mythologies
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · historiography, quentin-skinner, mythology-of-doctrines, myth-ledger, perceptrons
• Herbert Simon named and dismissed perceptron research, citing Rosenblatt 1958, as a negative case in his 1983 chapter "Why Should Machines Learn?"
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · herbert-simon, perceptrons, rosenblatt, connectionism, ai-history
• Simon's two engagements with connectionism — dismissing perceptron learning empirically (1983) and later redefining connectionist nets as symbol systems (1993, 1995) — share a pattern distinct from refutation or endorsement: absorption
  observation seedling 2026-07-15 · herbert-simon, perceptrons, connectionism, physical-symbol-system, ai-history
• Capture: Did Herbert Simon ever comment on the perceptron controversy or on connectionism directly?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-14 · herbert-simon, perceptrons, connectionism, physical-symbol-system, rosenblatt
• Seymour Papert co-authored Perceptrons (1969) with Minsky after training under Piaget in Geneva
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · papert, minsky-papert, perceptrons, piaget, developmental-psychology
• Simon's own account of expert intuition diagnoses the Minsky–Papert sterility conjecture as confident judgment in a low-validity environment — a shared epistemic structure, not documented influence
  observation seedling Tier 3 2026-07-12 · herbert-simon, minsky-papert, bounded-rationality, expert-intuition, kahneman-klein
• Did Herbert Simon ever comment on the perceptron controversy or on connectionism directly?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · herbert-simon, minsky-papert, perceptrons, connectionism, ai-history
• Collation — the discipline of comparing variant copies — is the real bridge between the cancel-slip note and the Pollack citation-discrepancy note
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-07-11 · history-of-the-book, bibliography, collation, textual-variance, cross-domain-bridge
• Seymour Papert — the Perceptrons co-author who brought Piaget into the AI lab and became the father of learning-by-building
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-11 · papert, minsky, perceptrons, piaget, constructionism
• Simon's own bounded rationality diagnoses the Minsky–Papert sterility conjecture as expert intuition in a low-validity environment
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-07-11 · herbert-simon, minsky-papert, bounded-rationality, satisficing, expert-intuition
• Confirm against a standalone 1969 first-edition scan of Perceptrons that 'credit-assignment' is absent from the original text (present only in the 1988 Epilogue)
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, credit-assignment, primary-source-verification, history-of-ml
• Does the term or framing "credit assignment" appear in Minsky & Papert's 1969 Perceptrons, and in what context?
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, credit-assignment, terminology, history-of-ml
• Append-only correction as real-world accretion: Talmud layout, errata slips, and the Perceptrons 1969/1988 boundary
  capture promoted Tier mixed — see per-claim tiers below 2026-07-09 · hop, print-history, talmud, errata, accretion
• Dreyfus's own 1988 account resolves the 'double role': his critique targeted symbolic AI specifically, and he framed connectionism as vindicating his phenomenology, not as its target
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · dreyfus, connectionism, phenomenology, backpropagation, perceptrons
• Léon Bottou's 2017 foreword states the reissued Perceptrons text is the 1969 first edition (fourteen chapters, 0–13); the Prologue and Epilogue were written for the 1988 Expanded Edition
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, credit-assignment, history-of-ml, book-structure
• Dreyfus & Dreyfus's 1988 Daedalus paper frames Rosenblatt's connectionism — not symbolic AI — as the program their phenomenological critique vindicated
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · dreyfus, connectionism, phenomenology, perceptrons, history-of-ml
• No freely accessible standalone scan of the 1969 first edition of Perceptrons could be located; major repositories hold only the 1988 Expanded Edition
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, primary-source-verification, history-of-ml, source-availability
• The phrase 'credit-assignment' in Minsky & Papert's Perceptrons appears only in the 1988 Expanded Edition's Epilogue defending Rosenblatt — not in the 1969 original
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, credit-assignment, terminology, history-of-ml
• Jordan Pollack's 1989 review locates Minsky & Papert's credit/blame-apportionment argument in the 1988 Prologue (roman-numeral p. xiii), and finds no 'credit assignment' in four sampled passages of the 1969 body
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, credit-assignment, history-of-ml, primary-source-verification
• Jordan Pollack's 1989 peer-reviewed review quotes the 'intuitive judgment … sterile' passage from Perceptrons and cites it to p. 231
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, ai-history, connectionism, primary-source-verification
• Confirm against a standalone 1969 first-edition scan of Perceptrons that 'credit-assignment' is absent from the original text (present only in the 1988 Epilogue)
  question open 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, credit-assignment, primary-source-verification, history-of-ml
• Does Perceptrons (1969) p. 232 contain the 'intuitive judgment … sterile' passage verbatim?
  capture promoted 2026-07-08 · Perceptrons, Minsky-Papert, history-of-AI, AI-winter, multilayer-perceptrons
• Minsky and Papert 1969 proved single-layer limits but only conjectured — as an "intuitive judgment" — that the multilayer extension was sterile
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-07 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, ai-history, ai-winter, connectionism
• Myth ledger: 'The 1969 Perceptrons book killed neural-network research'
  note seedling 2026-07-07 · myth, perceptrons, minsky-papert, ai-winter, ai-history
• Does Perceptrons (1969) p. 232 contain the 'intuitive judgment … sterile' passage verbatim?
  question answered 2026-07-07 · verification, perceptrons, minsky-papert, primary-source
• Why neural-network research stalled between the 1969 Perceptrons book and the mid-1980s revival
  capture promoted 2026-06-30 · neural-networks, ai-history, ai-winter, backpropagation, perceptrons