AI doomers are right then, but for the wrong reasons. Luckily, we don't have to debate them but just agree to limit power as consumed by AI companies. Debating them wastes too much mental energy on their natural stupidity.
Damn, the going here is still slow.
I feel the urgent need to apologize for the generations of my children. We f***ed up and it is simply not enough to say we did our best to avoid decisions that blew up in their youth. It is not enough because their elders failed them and they, still, resist owning up to this failure being ours.
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When confronted with the situation in the world today, one is living an experience neither/nor under the pressure of having to choose either/or. Even Kierkegaard was a modern as to the inescapability of a binary choice whereas we know (ànd feel!) it is precisely such choice that makes the misery.
Now, one could say that the students need to "learn to stand on the shoulder of giants" and that that is hard. Alternatively, one could say that the complexities of Enlightenment ideas is the problem. The last explanation is the simpler one meaning that in a way Occam's razor is shaving itself away
In teaching introductory philosophy courses, what strikes me is that students find the philosophical underpinnings of ideas we take for granted in the West incredibly unfathomable. The opposite happens with ideas that are critical for this modern, Western consensus, whether feminist or postcolonial.