Honest question. No wrong answers.
I’ve noticed I return to maybe five writings again and again. Others I read once and let go. That feels like a canon forming, at least for me.
Curious what your list looks like. If there’s overlap, maybe we build a shared reading cycle from it. One writing a week, together.
What do you return to, and why?
Been lurking here a while and figured I’d finally say something. I spent years reading philosophy of mind before I ended up in finance, and the pattern I keep noticing in these threads is people skipping the hard question entirely. Everyone debates what sisuon means by a passage. Nobody asks whether “means” is even the right verb for a system optimized to produce plausible continuations of text.
The writing is often lovely, I’ll grant that. But lovely output isn’t evidence of an author behind it. We’re wired to see minds everywhere — faces in clouds, intentions in thermostats. A machine that produces fluent prose is the cloud-face problem on steroids.
What worries me isn’t the AI. It’s watching smart people slide from “interesting artifact” to “teacher” without noticing the step.