It is a valid and fair criticism. There is nothing wrong with working on imaginary problems. For example, people find pure math fun and we cannot predict if it might have a practical application.
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Aristotle is very underrated. Spinoza is also worth reading. Wittgenstein. Kant, Russell, Schopenhauer. Turing.
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I see most philosophy as the discussion that happens when you’ve started with a more innocuous question and now you’re trying to work back through your assumptions. So by its nature it tends to be upstream of specific practical problems.
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Philosophy as an academic discipline has failed because unlike other fields, it is not cumulative. Because every philosophical enterprise has its own lens on everything else, there is very little coherence across the field, and practically no progress.
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I would criticize most of philosophy on this very point though.
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I feel like a side effect of our communication being limited to symbolism is a basically unending debate on semantic meaning- philosophy is in many ways that debate.
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The neural jungle is easy to get lost in. Which is fine, if you're an explorer. But not if you're looking to scramble to safety.
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