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I don't mean to be rude -- it's a very serious comparison. The erotic and philosophy have been invoked together since Plato. So as you note: you want ...

Have you tried having an erotic chat with an LLM? We can do it, but we can't do it. It looks like sex but it isn't sex. So it goes with thinking, in m...

Haven't started yet, not sure if I'd start then.

Feels like we do matter, whether we like it or not. I hope my expressions thus far answer all your other questions.

I want to divide this question into two -- one addressing our actual capacities to "Ban AI", which I agree is a useless rejection since it won't resul...

I have a lower standard there, I think. For instance, I'd say that this conversation we're having is an original idea. That's not to say that the idea...

No information on my part -- merely experience. I am prejudiced against AI because I like books and talking to others, and I don't care if the AI come...

I'm willing to take that gamble. In a sense I'm fine with people using it and making it work for them. One of the uses that I came across that looked ...

Fair point. There I struggled with thinking on how to do it, which no answer leads to your line of questioning. Not at all :) -- I suspect that here w...

I'll admit my prejudice is somewhat on the pissing on the forest fire side -- an almost Kantian hatred of AI. Let the world move on this will be the o...

Thanks :) -- I'll be sure to write something up then. Probably get to it this Friday.

Nice :) -- I gave both a listen and both are beautiful.

https://youtu.be/yOUcRt4NqXE?si=aIkTSZw4tlWqwLK9

https://youtu.be/M73x3O7dhmg?si=wYVEpK4I8h_tyi7i I expect I've posted this before, but it's been hitting hard tonight.

They are not lost. Something weird happened that I nor @"Jamal" understand -- I had the same thing happen recently, and I can read them now. Some odd ...

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190075/capital?srsltid=AfmBOopk8ce3Zn8JoWI4iPgdxbeUGfwp5DAeuCrhFqZHZ37A36ixS0OB ?

I wasn't aware that there's a new translation. How new is it?

Maybe not Zeus, but Jesus Christ, Allah, and so on? People have more than dreamt of them: They've had living visions, if we believe their testimonies....

If it were then would it not be the case that God or Zeus is real for some, and not real for others? That is, some would say that they have made an im...

I found that puzzling, but your explanation does make sense at least. I'm still uncertain about Adorno's so-called elitism here. I haven't commented o...

This mirrors my own habits of having quit smoking. At this point I think I'm out of that habit, though part of the reason why is I know it can always ...

Thanks :) I'm glad I did it because there were a couple of knots in there that I skimmed over in my first reading and this forced me to untie them and...

Dialectics and the Solidified 1. Negative Dialectics, unfettered, does not dispense with the solid/fixed anymore than Hegel did. This may be surprisin...

To be fair I couldn't find it anywhere else so had to look through my own posts because I remembered using it at one point. It surprised me that it wa...

Sure we can't talk about texts we haven't read. I don't believe the OP is stating something along those lines, but rather is looking for fellow travel...

What counts as listening? It was 5 years ago so it's been awhile.

I used it in one of my old OP's, so maybe that's where you heard it before.

Any links to the whole album? I was inspired to relisten to Ground Zero - Consume Red by your song: https://youtu.be/BrBoQLkZY2g?si=1POHFj4m9Tcf-1XX

This is great.

Mostly. There's some who have been or are in "the profession" if that's the standard we want to use. But, yes, I think we're basically as laidback as ...

I intend on revisiting and trying to do a paragraph-by-paragraph breakdown as I've done before. A note on style, given your conversation with @"NotAri...

Annoyingly: Both/and/or or Something else.

Or maybe just once. Perhaps the universe ends and nothing comes about ever again. I won't be there to see it.

Democratic ownership and control over the means of production such that surplus-value is directed by all of us rather than for private benefit, or eve...

I don't think these are at odds, exactly. We have to be careful here because Marx's use of "exploitation" is specialized to capitalism. For instance w...

Seems so. "In some sense" we might say; like any philosopher he'll take what he thinks is true and leave what he thinks is false, or even utilize what...

Care to share a reference for the secondary material?

If only I could quell my curious desire -- opting into becoming a pyrrhonist is much easier than becoming one, let's say.

I'd go along with the notion of a family resemblance as long as we don't stop there -- and I must admit I feel like I'm chasing a rabbit down a hole w...

@"Ansiktsburk" I second this suggestion. Botton and associated authors fit what you describe. They're accessible to a general audience and think about...

Those sound interesting (without having read) -- would you say that these analyses are Against Cause, in terms of the OP? There's a sense in which I t...

Have they considered the benefits of dehancing their lives? If "my life" is that which I desire and what I desire feels bad then even by the psycholog...

It seems like we'd have to say "no" in keeping a charitable reading. That the social whole changes will change consciousness, but I'm thinking that th...

We do reading groups, though most of us that do them like the difficult texts. (At least I know I do -- the reading group helps me keep on task) In te...

True -- it's almost an inversion of Socrates who bragged he didn't do it for money. I wouldn't want to make that a necessary condition, though -- the ...

That's me jumping into the ether of wonder. I too frequently occupy my thoughts with meta-philosophy and its possible purposes. If I had to draw one e...

Minimum standard, by my lights in the world we live in, is being paid to do it. But surely you see how inadequate that standard is. It's just the mini...

I'd put it that everyone has the potential to think philosophically. I don't agree that everyone is a philosopher, though. Everyone has the potential ...

I echo: No need for four becauses, unless that helps us to sort our thoughts at the moment: We can surely come up with more than four becauses. We see...

Good game. Always down for another too -- I kind of like having the long play of a few days. Gives me something to warm my mind up on in the morning a...