Jamal

Yes, I think we all agree that eristic is not good in a philosophical context. My claim was that engaging directly would result in eristic, and that I...

Just a quick note to say that the word means severely critical of the behaviour of others, like someone who polices public morality (like the Roman ce...

Good stuff. I mostly agree. Where I think this runs into difficulty is in how to uncover and decide on the causes of harm/suffering. The tools I favou...

Good questions, although I balk at the suggestion that I'm a foundationalist. Otherwise ... it's complicated. The qualification "arguably" is there be...

True. Aristotle's exclusion of barbarians and slaves, and partial exclusion of women, from the moral and political community was a presupposition rath...

To provide the context for this mega-post, let's look at MacIntyre's diagnosis of modern moral debate: If this is the case for all moral debate, are w...

Yeah that makes sense. Awesome. :party: :grin:

Weirdly, I've decided to start out by criticizing Banno: I disagree with this. I think what the Christian conservative use of neo-Aristotelian ideas o...

Sorry, you guys do your own thing. I withdraw my cultural imperialism.

I understand :up: :brow:

Australians never have anything good to say about Bali! What I know about it is mainly through my interest in gamelan, although of course I'm aware of...

If they were planning on taking me to Indonesia I wish they'd said something. I'd like to go one day.

Lurking, biding their time, planning their attack strategy from a secret lair. Hardly seems worth it, considering the result.

Neutralized

It very quickly produced a heated philosophical debate, and I've been enjoying posts by you and others which oppose the OP's bigotry and religious dog...

Introduction: TRADITION AND COGNITION From the last section, which looked at the temporal, historical dimension of philosophical thought, to this sect...

Instead of saying... It would've been better to say that Wittgenstein is not saying you can't understand a word differently from everyone else. Wittge...

Understanding is no more internal than eating. It depends on some biological processes that happen under the skin, among other things that don't, but ...

In my last post I forgot to mention that I think Adorno in this section solves one of our disputes. He admits that the existent as we conceptualize an...

I agree. Yes indeed. Well put. This interpretation is made in the right spirit, but I think it's too reductive. Let's not make the mistake of replacin...

Introduction: THING, LANGUAGE, HISTORY I like this section. It feels like we're approaching the conclusion of the introduction. Which we are. Adorno b...

@"Moliere": thanks for the Sartre stuff. I've skipped it since I read the next section and I found it much more interesting, and like I say I don't kn...

Ah, you misread it:

If you put a gun to my head, sure. I'd definitely eat it, even without the gun. I don't really like baking, you see. I cook savoury dishes only. Oh, a...

I often use lemon zest. Outlander seems to be quite unfamiliar with food.

I'm impressed!

I've been giving them eggs and leftover meat recently. Sometimes as many as 8 arrive at the same time. Possibly the young ones from last year are stil...

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:chin: I'm honoured. Adorno and Horkheimer were both influenced by Walter Benjamin, who was pretty strongly into Jewish theology and mysticism via his...

Yeah, I see. I know a little about that difference and it means that you guys get a plus one on Jamal's religious scoreboard. :up: But to me this is a...

See, you've put me in a box here and missed the fact that I'm spiritual in a different way. You don't care about the raven, the real individual beings...

No, I wanted to see where it was and how it fit in the landscape because it's mentioned a few times in Thomas Pynchon's new novel, which I'm reading r...

By sheer coincidence I was also looking at Grand Rapids on Google Earth yesterday. Didn't really notice the trailers though.

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I'm not ignoring this. The thing is, I'm very cynical about claims regarding the consciousness or proto-consciousness of LLMs. I tend, shallowly perha...

You mean, trust my intuitions? Where I'm from that's fighting talk. How intriguing. I'm interested in that.

Hey, that happened to me just the other day.

Yeah, the problem is that although the topics of the OPs are distinct and ought to be separate, we humans are such an undisciplined and annoying bunch...

Talking of ravens, I see and hear ravens very often in Russia. In Scotland back in the day I would see them only very occasionally, around the tops of...

A lot of A.I. discussions on TPF right now. Is that a problem? I think not really. It reflects the times, and in a way that has the potential to produ...

Yeah, they value their privacy when they go to bed. Maybe you're a Viking, cos Odin has two ravens, Huginn and Muninn, who fly around the world gather...

I ain't no canary but I'll cough up: it's an ancient Egyptian statue of Horus. He's the god of divine kingship, see. Thought it was appropriate seeing...

Interesting conversation. But don't forget to be sceptical! It's telling you what it thinks you want to hear, and the result is it's talking in a way ...

Exactly. But there is more that counts than just "what one does": the context in which one does what one does. I think this counts only as a simulatio...

Well, let's see... My thoughts are that all you're doing is cloaking bigotry with philosophy to give it the appearance of intellectual depth, as part ...

My first thoughts are that the AI isn't even a lion, since it doesn't just have a different form of life, but no form of life at all, so language game...

An oxymoron. Anyway, I'm happy to bow out and leave you to have the last word, since I'm probably way off-topic.

Thanks. Carry on in that vein and leave the questions about the nature of AI for elsewhere. :up: (EDIT: unless you are explicitly connecting it to the...

Yeah, people like bankers, corporate bosses, and billionaires—the first in line for government handouts.

Are you attempting to address the questions in the OP? Are you helping to work out how to use AI effectively to do philosophy? It doesn't look like it...