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.

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

Modern philosophers re interpret the ancients. There's nothing modern about them besides the fact they are desperately trying to make a name and a buck using someone else's 🍆

I suggest (for west):

La Scienza Nuova 3
Kratylos
and generally logical outlines around Pythagoras, heracletus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle.