Matt Blewitt
sarah jeongnot everyone in society needs to have taken philosophy 101, but imo our dogshit discourse around AI suggests that it probably should have been mandatory for the elite classes
just my elitist two cents!!!
[sobbing in hilary putnam, every day]
god now that I think about it though they've probably read a synopsis of hilary putnam and 100% missed the actual point of that essay
our stupid future has a lot of people reevaluating the legacy of the Luddites; but personally, I've been reevaluating Early Wittgenstein vs Later Wittgenstein
Glyph@sarahjeong.bsky.social I would really like to read this article (or… book? Series of books?)
Raven667@sarahjeong.bsky.social I feel like to be elite in the past encouraged some amount of liberal arts general education which would have included philosophy, so you don't have rulers/leaders operating ungrounded from all the knowledge of authority/leadership gained over centuries. Confucius probably has a lot to say about the need of authority figures to have standard training.
Ludic 🧛@sarahjeong.bsky.social the consciousness discourse makes me so depressed lmao. I don't expect random people to weigh in, but so many nerds are out there opining so confidently (and sometimes coherently, sure) and it is almost always extremely evident that they've never actually picked up a book on it, even when they're reasoning decently from first principles
We don't have to start from first principles 😢 people have been writing about this for decades
Eric LawtonAs a philosophy grad student, I TA'd a course called Practical Thinking".
Mostly logical and ethical fallacies.
As assignments, I had students pick a newspaper¹ article and critique it. Imagine doing a Trump speech. 🤣
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1. Yeah, that long ago.