Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I agree this is a problem. In retrospect, reading Yudkowsky's Sequences was far more valuable to me than reading various pre-1900 philosophers' works firsthand. https://twitter.com/PradyuPrasad/status/1757745612072894477
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Brent Fitzgerald
@bf
This has me wondering what progress means in philosophy.
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parseb
@parseb.eth
you know those multiple levels of abstraction you yield unconsciously and just happened to stumble upon and internalize in brief moments of aporia? Those are probably part of it. Inventing all sciences. Killing god. Coming to terms with the absence of free will. Asking increasingly good and timely questions. Good one!
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Brent Fitzgerald
@bf
Do any of these things happen in modern philosophy? Seems like “progress” happens in adjacent fields like the sciences or math/logic or linguistics or psychology. But how do you know if the philosophy field is actually making progress? Is novelty progress?
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parseb
@parseb.eth
Logic is a sub-field of philosophy. Don't think there's any leaps without novelty. Would argue that even accidental discoveries require a degree of openness to novelty.
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Brent Fitzgerald
@bf
I took enough logic courses to know it’s basically math. I’m not coming into this question cold. I’m just unclear how progress would actually manifest in philosophy today apart from a sense of insight or connection.
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