@emilymbender People apparently don't learn from past attempts to solve problems from words and their assumed meaning alone. It's an irony that what known as #BadMetaphysics for more than 250 years is a 21st century's paradigm blindly trusted by the heirs of #Hume. It's tragic that researchers in the 21st century ignore what many generations of scholars learned in lifetimes wasted on attempts to solve an ill-conceived problem. #MasterAlgorithm

@tg9541 @emilymbender I'm under the impression many academics from my generation (millennials?) were conditioned with that kind of big tech arrogance that makes you think everything before 2000 is obsolete and hopelessly broken. Hence they think we need to start anew and not even bother learning from the mistakes (and successes!) of the past. I find myself commuting this mistake more often than I'd like to admit.