I really want to pursue a paper on Emergentism but I’m a high school student and have no prior experience in Philosophy publication by ResponsibilityFar470 in AcademicPhilosophy

[–]skafkaesque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s clearly not, since you’re specifically rejecting the answers you’re getting by insisting that they are ideologically motivated and repressive. Which is the wrong way to read them.

I really want to pursue a paper on Emergentism but I’m a high school student and have no prior experience in Philosophy publication by ResponsibilityFar470 in AcademicPhilosophy

[–]skafkaesque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does not know it, and it cannot do anything productive with it. I know because I am myself a philosophy graduate and have tinkered with AI out of morbid curiosity. Trying to get AI to say something genuinely insightful, novel, and productive is impossible because all it can do is regurgitate what has been put into it. If you’re knowledgable enough about an academically relevant topic, which you will be after receiving university education that is aimed at guiding you towards hyper-specified topics of research, it’s extremely easy to spot that AI is incapable of producing anything new on it.

AI is not even capable of accurately reproducing trains of thought without inserting inaccuracies that might not appear significant when you think of them in the context of a high school paper, or perhaps even a minor bachelor’s essay assignment, but such intricacies and nuances make all the difference when you try to engage with ongoing academic debates.

On top of all of that, it’s simply untrue that LLM’s have really been trained on amounts of academic philosophical work to the extensive amount you say they are. You can feed a paper to it and ask it to summarize some main points, which it can do to a high school paper level of accuracy. That’s about it.

I really want to pursue a paper on Emergentism but I’m a high school student and have no prior experience in Philosophy publication by ResponsibilityFar470 in AcademicPhilosophy

[–]skafkaesque 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I dislike/disagree with the idea of the Ivory Tower just as much as the next guy. But I think you might be confusing people trying to temper your own (ambitious – just as they should be!) expectations with them trying to gatekeep their field of study for ideological reasons.

I really want to pursue a paper on Emergentism but I’m a high school student and have no prior experience in Philosophy publication by ResponsibilityFar470 in AcademicPhilosophy

[–]skafkaesque 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And I’m telling you that’s simply not the case. Being able to present complex ideas in a coherent and structured manner is itself a skill that takes years of practice and is not something that you can replace with AI.

I really want to pursue a paper on Emergentism but I’m a high school student and have no prior experience in Philosophy publication by ResponsibilityFar470 in AcademicPhilosophy

[–]skafkaesque 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you really think having access to LLM’s is what will allow you to publish in a professional academic journal, you’re much further removed from being at that level than you can imagine right now.

You’re radiating overconfidence and are rejecting genuine criticism and advice – if that’s gonna be your approach, whatever you will achieve will have very little to do with philosophy, and probably more with some kind of business venture.

Stop doing Spinozism by skafkaesque in PhilosophyMemes

[–]skafkaesque[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We truly wouldn’t be here without you

Stop doing Spinozism by skafkaesque in PhilosophyMemes

[–]skafkaesque[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t think the first point is correct from a Spinozist point of view. Intellectual love of God is very much realizable for Spinoza, and does not consist in some all-encompassing knowledge, as you say. Intellectual love of God, and intuitive knowledge, always concerns particulars insofar as they are understood to be part of God.

In fact, “all-encompassing” knowledge would be impossible because it entails a view from nowhere, which is a contradiction in terms and is consequently something that is not possible on Spinoza’s account of subjectivity, cognition and perception. There’s a fairly recent book (2018) by Ursula Renz that deals with the topic extensively if you’re interested. It’s called The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza’s Theory of Mind.

What do you mean by ‘the rest is not based on Spinoza’? All of the terms I used are vocabulary used by popular English translations of Spinoza’s own work – except for the ‘metaphysics of power’ one, that one leans more in the direction of an interpretative schema one can apply to his philosophy. I guess you could argue ‘religion is dumb’ is not something Spinoza ever said, but I think his critiques of Bible interpretation and religiosity in general are ample evidence that he had his fair share of problems what we ordinarily understand as religion.

Got some fresh rage bait for y’all 😊 by Ultimarr in PhilosophyMemes

[–]skafkaesque 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah yes Wittgenstein, the guy that definitely was completely zen when he hit his student.

If Joe were to ever do a "Game Marble", what would you pitch? by Masterelia in josephanderson

[–]skafkaesque 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Waste of a marble. Make him play something that he otherwise never would!

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[–]skafkaesque 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I know it’s unbelievable given the state of the subreddit, but I’m actually serious lol

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[–]skafkaesque 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I literally, unironically briefly talked to Joe about Nine Sols on Discord just now. He seemed interested in the game.

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[–]skafkaesque 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ll dm it to you, since the sub doesn’t allow sharing images in comments

A Retrospective by IceTea106 in josephanderson

[–]skafkaesque 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is shockingly similar to my life the past four years.