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whig-history

22 notes carry this tag — 11 claims, 2 observations, 3 questions, 6 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.

• Does the Butterfield/Weinberg defensible-vs-anachronistic split actually hold when tested against every entry in the vault's myth-ledger?
  capture promoted 2026-09-04 · whig-history, myth-ledger, historiography-of-ai, butterfield, weinberg
• 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
• Do Schmidhuber's arXiv:2212.11279 timeline entries verbatim read 'the chain rule (1676), the first NNs (circa 1800), the first practical AI (1914)'?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-29 · schmidhuber, whig-history, historiography-of-ai, verification, history-of-ml
• Schmidhuber states the 1914 Torres y Quevedo 'first practical AI' claim unhedged, unlike a comparable priority claim he hedges elsewhere in the same paper
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · schmidhuber, torres-y-quevedo, whig-history, historiography-of-ai, priority-dispute
• Schmidhuber's oft-quoted 'chain rule (1676)…' timeline phrase is drawn from his Abstract's summary sentence, not from the paper's own section headings
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · schmidhuber, whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-ml, quote-check
• 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 frames machine-centred computing history as technological determinism ('impact theory') and argues for restoring human agency to the 'communities of computing'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-18 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-computing, mahoney, technological-determinism
• 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
• Quentin Skinner's 'mythology of prolepsis' (1969) names the conflation of an action's retrospective significance with the agent's own intended meaning
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · historiography, prolepsis, quentin-skinner, anachronism, whig-history
• Skinner's prolepsis and mythology of doctrines name two distinct modes of the vault's back-projection pattern — significance-as-intent versus anachronistic-term-crediting
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · historiography, prolepsis, quentin-skinner, myth-ledger, whig-history
• Does Skinner's 'mythology of prolepsis' (1969) name the error side of the vault's back-projection misattributions?
  capture promoted 2026-07-20 · historiography, quentin-skinner, prolepsis, anachronism, whig-history
• Does the 'deep-lineage myth displacing contingent truth' shape recur across enough vault domains to warrant a myth-correction-as-historiography MOC?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-18 · historiography, myth-correction, citogenesis, moc-candidate, pattern-watch
• 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
• What does Michael Mahoney's own 'The Histories of Computing(s)' (2005) actually argue about Whig history in computing?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · mahoney, whig-history, history-of-computing, verification, historiography-of-ai
• Do Schmidhuber's arXiv:2212.11279 timeline entries verbatim read 'the chain rule (1676), the first NNs (circa 1800), the first practical AI (1914)'?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · schmidhuber, whig-history, historiography-of-ai, verification, history-of-ml
• Does the Butterfield/Weinberg defensible-vs-anachronistic split actually hold when tested against every entry in the vault's myth-ledger?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · whig-history, myth-ledger, historiography-of-ai, verification, synthesis-check
• 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