We are predisposed to accuse others of making wrongful accusations against “us”. Identity is replacing ideology, which long ago replaced reality. If w...
I agree. Metaphysics was at one time discovered. It wasn’t merely invented. Maybe it was partly that we discovered ‘that we invent’. We reflected on k...
I have to agree. See my very first post here, 2 years ago. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15012/human-beings-the-self-contradictory-animal/...
Yes. Right. In a shallow, misguided sense, we can use AI to dialogue because it looks like what humans do; except the AI doesn’t combine the signs wit...
I don’t think we needed any more instruction since the New Testament myself. But life is proceeding. We need to learn these things all anew in each ag...
Is this the question here? And Vedanta and Toasim are in consideration. There is a ton of wisdom in those traditions. But they are less political and ...
In a political and economic context, which moral good need not be at issue. (It can be, but need not be.) Progressivism and conservatism can be contra...
Tradition defined as "we've always done it this way, therefore we ought do it this way" is not accurate either. Traditionalists simply look for the re...
Yes, but isn’t America evidence that the liberal capitalist system has been the best opportunity for the most poor people so far in history, across 25...
Childishness and irresponsibility cut across all income levels. Do we have to throw out the baby of capitalist self-determination with the bathwater o...
How can we use something effectively if we don’t know what it is? Unless we are all postmodernists. In which case there is no “what it is” to know, an...
I agree. Capitalist republics implode in contradiction to their own principles. It remains to be seen if America can last another 50 years, 100 years ...
No, the ability AI does not have is to want to confirm its own ideas, or identify a need or reason to do so. AI has no intent of its own. When AI seek...
I agree. AI doesn’t have the ability to be affected by its own statements in the way we are describing. The effect of words I’m referencing is their e...
Limited republican government by the consent of the people in a capitalist economy - these were liberal ideas once. (This fact is lost on today’s extr...
Interesting. As a completely narrow apologetic for capitalism, (given the much deeper topic you go on to discuss here), isn’t the friction between cap...
I disagree. When you are presented with something new and unprecedented, the source matters to you when assessing how to address the new unprecedented...
I would not say the center is more important than the poles. At times, conservative, at other times liberal, and at other times a blend. I’m not a big...
Like three co-equal branches of government that must compromise with each other, in order to limit government so that people can be freer to trade-off...
I think that is true if you look at people as a group. History repeats itself in many different facades. But there are individuals who truly live well...
Because when it is real, what it says affects the speaker (the LLM) as much as the listener. How does anything AI says affect AI? How could it if ther...
That’s the idea of the US Constitution. Constrain government power - to let people control their lives locally. Of course 250 years later the governme...
I think it does. But do we have to always pit the liberal against the traditional? Conservatism sees “itself exactly as a way of negotiating those dif...
Yes, good post. I need to think about it. But my first impression is to wonder if the “refining” process involves both seemingly wise tradition and fr...
Yes. Why I said this: —— Yes. I agree. It’s an electronic Derrida. There is no person or identifiable thing at the core or behind an AI output, just l...
How AI does what it does? That is a technical question, isn’t it? It quickly compares volumes of data and prints strings of words that track the data ...
I actually wrote something, and edited it back out. I wrote: which is the more general topic and which is the sub-topic (between “how to use AI to do ...
Why can’t both be an issue. :grin: Letting LLMs do your thinking should concern the person using the LLM the most. And I’m sure it will degrade brainp...
According to who? There are a few points people are trying to make. Which one are we supposed to care about? And then there’s whatever Claude seems to...
AI is a tool. Tools can be useful. I don’t think it should be banned. And regardless of what we do, and regardless of what we say and think about AI, ...
That is interesting. And also makes sense, given AI is like a text calculator. The prompt feeds into the whole chain of events that one might call “AI...
You sell hammers way too short, and maybe give AI way too much credit. You say “act on its own”; and I said “accidentally”. So you don’t think AI is a...
That’s the whole ball game. In order to speak at all, we need to objectify, to fix, something external to us both. Is it gender or sex that can be fix...
Maybe “sociopaths” is unnecessary. Wouldn’t want to scare any children. AI is a tool. Like a hammer, it can do good or destroy, on purpose or accident...
How is that any different from any philosopher? The difference (to you) is your own judgement of what is “spouted”. And maybe the number who make up t...
Doesn’t that just depend on the LLM? And who determines that? We need to be better philosophers first in order to judge whether the LLM output is “bet...
Good. Allow me to get back to “some semblance of truth.” I see what you are saying. But maybe you don’t need to conflate AI with the hominem to make y...
It’s an actual shame. The irony of the “information” super highway. The irony of calling its latest advancement “intelligent”. We demean the intellige...
First, anyone as interested in the truth as you are, and who obviously loves his children enough to consider such big questions, for their sakes, it s...
Two interesting legal questions arose in the context of law firms using AI: 1. Information shared between a lawyer and client is privileged, meaning, ...
Faith is always pitted in opposition to knowledge, such that acts based on faith are committed without reason, and only acts based on knowledge can be...
Umm.. Twice now I said you recognized the problem. I don’t think you and I can communicate through a message board. You are all over the place and don...
Cool cool - good man for even saying it. Sorry for my lack of clarity. So I don’t disagree, but I think a small nit-pick will keep my position clear. ...
I think I am being very plain and thorough in my set up. I give a lot of background and context. In good faith, I openly admit I am a conservative thi...
Which reflects my point about woke eating its own. The notion of allyship, offered to address this problem (which you now seem to recognize is still a...
Yeah, but you said you addressed it. And it took you 30 pages to define your thoughts on woke. (I think they are your thoughts.). So we could be back ...
Yes. It’s called Hillsdale College. It’s called private school. Wrong. This isn’t government impinging on speech. It’s government saying you can say w...
You misunderstand me. It is principled, and I seek actions consistent with that principle. My principle is in response to the infringement of free spe...
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