I know that I know not enough, and nothing more.
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Few years ago I picked up a random philosophy magazine out of curiosity. Single thing I remember is an article with a guy arguing that all inanimate objects have rights.
Lots of inspiring thoughts in the comments section! Way to go!
Some philosophers have written in intentionally hard to understand language.
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Philosophers used to be nearly unemployable but suddenly there is high demand for them in the AI industry. Shudder.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/06/ai-companies-hiring-philosophers/687417/
i was thinking this would be related to ontology
"What ontologies in both information science and philosophy have in common is the attempt to represent entities, including both objects and events, with all their interdependent properties and relations, according to a system of categories. In both fields, there is considerable work on problems of ontology engineering (e.g., Quine and Kripke in philosophy, Sowa and Guarino in information science),[5] and debates concerning to what extent normative ontology is possible (e.g., foundationalism and coherentism in philosophy, BFO and Cyc in artificial intelligence)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)
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Machiavelli was not saying to be mean as much as be prepared to be mean.
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we really don't actually know wtf is going on, and there's a good chance we never will
Wow, gotta love the Mythons!
Doesn't it make you wonder...What's it all about?
Waaaait a minute, Monty Python does not have an S in it! ALWAYS knew it. Bunch of frauds.
I can just say the old Greek already knew everything.
We had philosophy as a subject in school, but it was less about learning to think and more about interpreting texts written by some philosophers. Most (including me) dropped the class after the year.
And that was forty years ago...
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