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

Anti-Oedipus by Deleuze and Guattari is pretty eye opening… lots of modern philosophy is pretty good but can get really abstract real quick… I think that’s why foundational philosophy focuses on the Greeks and other ancients… Hume, Descartes and Smith help root some economic principles for sure!