It feels like their method of thinking is corrupted in some deep way? It's pretty subtle, but academic philosophers seem to think in ways that lead to *less* clarity, while framing this as virtue. It feels like they're "performing thinking"; doing things that resemble thoughts.
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That’s weird because that seems like a fairly good description of a lot of rationalist stuff which I imagine is the implicit “good thinking” benchmark you’re comparing this stuff to
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Rationalists regularly ground their thinking in regular tests, like predictions and bets.
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Right and philosophers will have more legible thinking on surface-level empirical claims too, you have to compare like-for-like and look at rationalist theory stuff which seems to have a lot of the issues you mention
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