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presentism

10 notes carry this tag — 7 claims, 1 observation, 2 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Weinberg's science exemption and Wikipedia's summary of Butterfield's own critique both explicitly name and reject hero/villain historical narratives, not only anachronistic concept-importing
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-04 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, weinberg, butterfield
• What does Michael Mahoney's own 'The Histories of Computing(s)' (2005) actually argue about Whig history in computing?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-18 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-computing, mahoney, presentism
• Mahoney's 2005 essay never uses the term 'Whig history' or cites Butterfield — its critique is framed as anti-hype and anti-determinism, not an explicit Whig-history argument
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-18 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-computing, mahoney, presentism
• Mahoney argues machine-centred computing history reads the computer's contingent path as inevitable because 'hype hides history'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-18 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-computing, mahoney, presentism
• Herbert Butterfield's 1931 book defined 'Whig history' as the practice of studying the past with reference to the present
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, philosophy-of-science, cross-domain-bridge
• Historian Michael S. Mahoney argued computing has no single history — only irreducibly plural 'histories' of the 'communities of computing' that shaped it
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-computing, mahoney, presentism
• Schmidhuber's 'Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning' dates the field's origin to the 1676 chain rule and circa-1800 neural nets — reading the present category back onto the deep past
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, schmidhuber, credit-assignment
• Steven Weinberg argues Whig history is legitimate specifically for science, because scientific progress lets historians say who was right
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, philosophy-of-science, weinberg
• Butterfield/Weinberg's whig-history critique does not sort the vault's AI-history myth-ledger cleanly into two kinds — a hero/villain-narrative mode and a residual bibliometric/scope-conflation mode resist the binary
  observation seedling 2026-07-12 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, myth-ledger, philosophy-of-science
• Whig history names what the vault's AI-history myth-ledger polices — and Weinberg's science exemption complicates it
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-11 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, credit-assignment, backpropagation