Andy Masley#1669
I intended studying philosophy to be professionally irrelevant, but thanks to progress in AI everyone is now doing half-assed philosophy of mind takes.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/nobody-knows-what-theyre-talking
Users dismissed non-experts reviving philosophy of mind debates due to AI progress, accusing them of refusing to engage with Wittgenstein and personally insulting the poster.
@mattyglesias A few months ago when “black Helen of Troy” discourse was heating up I thought “good thing I kept that pdf copy of Havelock’s Preface To Plato in my Gmail for twenty years”
@mattyglesias I'd argue it's not just bad philosophy ... it's the attention economy compressing millennia of debate into viral hot takes. blame the incentives, not just the pundits.
@mattyglesias And yet non of them will read and submit to Wittgenstein.
@mattyglesias Including you!
@bendreyfuss @mattyglesias My thing is the age. Helen of Troy is young and impetuous. Nyongo’s combination of age and timeless beauty makes it impossible for me to believe her as someone who falls for a feckless fuccboi who needs his big brother to defend her honor.
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Andy Masley#1669I intended studying philosophy to be professionally irrelevant, but thanks to progress in AI everyone is now doing half-assed philosophy of mind takes.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/nobody-knows-what-theyre-talking