Jamal

Oh yeah. I knew there was something wrong with it. You're welcome. I'm glad the example I set to others is bearing fruit.

No-o-o-o-o! Don't you start. We already have @"Banno" doing that, as if he's at Oxford in the 1930s or whatever. Ought to, I say. Harrumph.

As far as I know, nobody has held up Wittgenstein as a gold standard of philosophical writing. And I don't think anyone has made any connection betwee...

:cry: Happy anniversary everyone! When we started we were worried about getting new members. Now, we're worried about having too many. That is progres...

Good stuff. Not sure what to think about it yet.

:up: I'm really not sure about this. Probably my position on this will boil down to sometimes yes, sometimes no. How that breaks down I'm not quite su...

I seem to switch between two exclusive mental settings when thinking about AI: the critical-theoretical and the pragmatic-instrumental. I appreciate t...

I feel like I've been overusing it lately. Anyway, yes, I do take your point, despite my dislike of Google's search results. But if you use an LLM dir...

Your response misses the point but I know better than to attempt a direct reply.

Yeah, the idea of telling people not to use it at all is not a serious one, since at least half of us use it already, including most of the staff. But...

It very much depends. We don't want to see people debating by proxy, offering quotes of LLM output in lieu of arguing the point themselves. It's anoth...

In case anyone is wondering why I'm being so unfriendly: I don't take kindly to someone who literally said that the only reason he was here was to pro...

Obviously.

I agree, with reservations. Adorno would say this beautiful wave isn't real polyvalence, because there is no such thing as fully human experience in t...

TPF isn't really the right place for that. TPF is for you to engage with the thought of others. Same goes for philosophy in general.

It's pretty harmless but yes I have considered putting a stop to that.

So long as you're talking about him.

Yeah, but on the other hand, it might not be so bad to use an argument suggested by an LLM, so long as you understand it. After all, we do this all th...

Yeah, but it's ambiguous. I'd like to clarify it, and make it known that it's not ok to do certain things, even if it's impossible to enforce. Since p...

@"Baden"'s "proposals" are just a restatement of the TPF status quo. But in my opinion, such is the ambiguity and confusion around this issue, we do n...

Weird to think an analysis could ruin a joke. Granted that the analysis isn't itself funny—it's not meant to be—but this idea that a joke is fragile a...

There would be many more if I weren't deleting half of them. If you see any that don't belong on a philosophy forum, let me know or report them.

Cool, but I got nothing else right now. I've got a respiratory infection, I'm slightly grumpy, and I'm on my phone so I can't compose a decent post. W...

Hey I'm not trying to convert you. I think it's just a way of illustrating Hegelian dialectics, particularly determinate negation. We were playing wit...

In merely physical terms they're the same coffee, but Zizek's ontology isn't a physicalist one but rather a social one, where what things mean to peop...

I didn't know the time of day mattered. I probably eat it mostly in the evening. Is this bad?

Yeah, that is part of Zizek's meaning. Like I said, what is negated constitutes what is, hence referring to something in terms of what it isn't means ...

Well, I think the point is to provide an alternative ontology in which the character of a negation—how we think of what something is in terms of what ...

Yes, but not the same: https://youtu.be/_WHdAKfcNnA?si=POvjZJoEYXSCifOM

No score and ten.

Happy birthday TPF!

More like people are using axes so we should encourage them to chop wood rather than people's heads off. EDIT: So it's the use of axes which we should...

I interpreted it earlier: It's probably a crude summary but I think that's roughly right: dialectics sacrifices the richness and diversity of experien...

The first 10 pages of this discussion were dedicated to a reading of those lectures. The first words of the OP went like this: However, we moved on fr...

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For the record, I agree with this, but I think it has to be put in the context of a How to use LLMs, since there is significant ambiguity even in a st...

I think I agree with @"Banno" about this: such tools will never be able to catch everything, will produce false positives, and quickly become outdated...

Arguably the most important part of the job is very often the "calculator" task, the most tedious task. I may rewrite it to avoid misreadings like you...

There are at least two or three people reading it. I'm not sure why you want to be famous. You're not even reading Negative Dialectics and yet I allow...

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I'm eager to agree, but I'm not sure what you're asking.

Like Hitler. :wink:

You're a good man.

https://youtu.be/Mzb3cKv9Ppg?si=T5dfrjVGiBScT35i

You're reciting a dogma, nothing else. You think you're fighting a battle, nothing more. Your comments are thoughtless, and what thoughts you profess ...

I agree. The risk is that you or we do appear to be anti-LLM tout court, because that will lead people to hide their use of it generally.

Nice. You might want to help it out to safety if you haven't done already.

@"Moliere" Let's say you object to some of the points I've made above. For example, I can see that you might push back against this: But your pushback...

What does it mean to "progress thought"? According to any sense I think of, using an LLM certainly can help in that direction. As always, the point is...

It seems to me difficult to argue against the point, made in the OP, that since LLMs are going to be used, we have to work out how to use them well, p...