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Language and Experience, with Isabela Granic Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
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Part 4 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, Isabela Granic and I discuss how AI technologies like ChatGPT relate to experience. We move into Schopenhauer's distinction between rationality and the intuition in The World as Will and Representation.
Topics discussed:
Previous podcast episode: The AI and Dark Forest, with Maggie Appleton
The explicit versus implicit in text
Philosophy is about changing your mind and life
Opportunity costs of reading
Brian Magee article on clarity in philosophical texts: Sense and Nonsense
My thread on Shklovsky and defamiliarization
Tolstoy's Hadji Murat
My thread on Janus words, Freud's (un)heimlich
Richard Wilhelm's I Ching
Graham: Zhuangzi's reaction against logic for ends in life (as opposed to means): aphorism, example, parable, and poetry
We'll come back to mathematics at some point
We'll come back to language models as averages
Dependent Origination article
Previous episodes:
Part 3 of this series: AI and Pyrrhonism
Part 2 of this series: A Philosophical Journey
Part 1 of this series: Causality and Conditionality
Clerestory by Bryan Kam • Infrequent updates at Substack • All my work plus exclusive content at Patreon
Show notes https://pod.fo/e/16f7ac
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message
Part 4 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, Isabela Granic and I discuss how AI technologies like ChatGPT relate to experience. We move into Schopenhauer's distinction between rationality and the intuition in The World as Will and Representation.
Topics discussed:
Previous podcast episode: The AI and Dark Forest, with Maggie Appleton
The explicit versus implicit in text
Philosophy is about changing your mind and life
Opportunity costs of reading
Brian Magee article on clarity in philosophical texts: Sense and Nonsense
My thread on Shklovsky and defamiliarization
Tolstoy's Hadji Murat
My thread on Janus words, Freud's (un)heimlich
Richard Wilhelm's I Ching
Graham: Zhuangzi's reaction against logic for ends in life (as opposed to means): aphorism, example, parable, and poetry
We'll come back to mathematics at some point
We'll come back to language models as averages
Dependent Origination article
Previous episodes:
Part 3 of this series: AI and Pyrrhonism
Part 2 of this series: A Philosophical Journey
Part 1 of this series: Causality and Conditionality
Clerestory by Bryan Kam • Infrequent updates at Substack • All my work plus exclusive content at Patreon
Show notes https://pod.fo/e/16f7ac
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message
1 hr 3 min