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I’m not a philosopher, just a mathematician who reads a lot. I do work in AI, though, and I hope…
I majored in philosophy as an undergrad back in the late 80s. I can still hear one professor saying the…
I would be disinclined to characterize the understanding described in the last paragraph as truths creditable to philosophy or philosophers.…
I like this, but it isn’t a virtue of philosophy that we appear to be able to flog dead horses…
Hard agree!
I have no scientific expertise on this subject, but I do wonder, likely influenced by my reading of Roko’s basilisk…
The poem by Wallace Stevens is called “Men Made Out Of Words” not “Machines Made Out Of Words.” This timely…
Pericles, in his Funeral Oration to the relatives of dead soldiers: "It is not possible for people to give fair and just advice to the state, if they are not exposing their own children to the same danger when they advance a risky policy."
–Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
(Thanks to Jim Klagge for the pointer.)
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