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I just finished my morning coffee. Contemplating fried or scrambled for breakfast. I try, not very successfully, not to post after breakfast. And yes,...

Each of the examples has it's own context, and there is a difference between the modal instance and the temporal instance. They are not the same. Howe...

Much more than that. She is showing at a logical issue common to the problem of induction, the is/ough barrier, and to "nothing about what was the cas...

Is it too late to pointing out that you ought not think him the king?

I'll repeat this here, since it seems apropos. to the discussion of "capitalist self-determination".

The glory of empiricism! ...that issue, raised elsewhere, of whether, or how, an AI participates in a language game...

The point here, of course, is not to argue in support of Rawls alone, but to show the lack of depth in Hazony.

Sure. So consistency is desirable. Rawls (for example) might agree, so far as that goes. Consider, might we engage in a moral discourse without presup...

I'd suggest re-reading Rawls. Is consistency a moral principle, and not a rational one? The insistence on universal moral principles is more authorita...

I bolded a bit of that, so that you can't miss it. As has been pointed out by others as well as myself, only a very few "progressives" would frame the...

But would an AI Wittgenstein be a performative contradiction? Let alone a Chinese-Room AI Searle...

We could add an AI Ayn Rand, and get the Liberals in as well.

:grin: An AI Nietzsche will have the attention of all the adolescent fanboys and the Right Whinge in general; should be quite an earner. Should we hoo...

Cheers. I'm not expecting this thread to garner much interest, no more than a few comments, but will write on, taking my own advice. Setting out the a...

That's spot on. Is the purpose here to create another conservative echo chamber? This is how the debate is to be framed, hence conservatism - we are r...

Was it something I said? I hope so.

As Baker asks, your discomfort, or mine? If yours, then I'm somewhat pleased to have your mild support on this trivial issue.

In an attempt to rub salt into this, let's consider AI Peter Singer. Will we say that a quote from AI Peter Singer is a quote from Peter? It would see...

It yet again shows the poverty of neo-Aristotelian ideas of essence.

:up: :wink: I presumed, mine.

Trite aphorisms. Not seeing it.

Sure. Ok. Let it pass.

This isn't self-promotion: ? Posting quotes from one's own book?

So what is Russell doing with the mooted counterexamples? In the Prior’s Dilemma example, on the one horn, if we call Fa v UxGx a universal sentence t...

These days, one's indiscretions are what folk count. Times have changed. Might not be a bad thing.

You are very kind, if perhaps of poor discretion.

No one around here, it seems. See?

Yeah, it does. I kinda think that philosophers might be best placed to decide what is philosophy. And around 80% lean towards atheism.

But what do the Philosophers think?

Yep. But don't say it out loud.

At the risk of taking us back to the topic, here's Claude's summation: Skills for Developing Philosophical Reasoning Research & Knowledge Building: Qu...

Another 20: 41. The pause learned to purr; sound replaced subject. 42. Purr turned to pulse, a metronome marking absence. 43. The fence quivered under...

Nice. Can Claude tell if the number of repetitions is constant, or increasing? i'd hypothesis that it would increase over the number of rounds..

I just tried again, with a commonplace prompt - "The cat sat on the fence". By round 40, we had "40. The sentence settled into itself, a cat-shaped pa...

Interesting. I'm thinking this shows pretty clearly the advantage of the non-representational nature of LLMs. I don't see that a representational syst...

Wow. Pretty impressive. Needs some digesting. I admire the prompts you are using. So a further thought. Davidson pointed out that we can make sense of...

Sure. It might be an idea to treat it as an aspiration rather than a statement of fact - perhaps as "We should treat all men as equal, for the purpose...

That's a shame. Ok.

Did you notice the "Orvyn" example? Surprisingly precocious.

And what do you think of that?

That's a very good point, from an excellent analysis. Yep. So another step: Can an AI name something new? Can it inaugurate a causal chain of referenc...

Sure. Yep. But we don't need a neutral perspective; only an agreed perspective. Not quite. I asked, somewhat facetiously, if that is what you were pro...

Last time I asked, they said "no". But they would, wouldn't they...

Do we accept philosophical arguments because of their authority - literally, their authorship - or because of their content? Ought one reject an other...

That's were I'm at, in my present musings. So Perhaps we are again treating a conceptual problem as if it were empirical - the ubiquitous error Midgle...

Sure. Although we've progressed beyond mere enlightenment... :wink: So we accept reason as not being neutral, and ask, "What's the alternative?" Do we...

Yes, and it is important that we treat these behaviours as acts. There are real world consequences for what AI's say. But, since they have none, they ...

Doesn't liberalism see itself exactly as a way of negotiating those differences?

Nice. Is tradition really as consistent as this framing supposes? You pointed to the tension between "All Men Are Created Equal" on the one hand and s...

An interesting direction here might be to consider if, or how, Ramsey's account can be appleid to AI. You have a plant. You water it every day. This i...