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Could ChatGPT etcetera undermine community by making statements less significant for us?
If a few people pass off AI answers as their own, it is bound to make people more sceptical. But the quality of the answer is the main thing. There are two risks to SE, I think:-
If the answers get ...
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Could ChatGPT etcetera undermine community by making statements less significant for us?
For me, it does not change anything. I have been in online communities since the late '80s. There have been very few indeed where I had a meaningful relationship to actual humans (small local/regional ...
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Could ChatGPT etcetera undermine community by making statements less significant for us?
Excellent question. But, I think you're looking at it the wrong way.
If you view philosophy and language to be a tool that helps us to model reality, then what you are after is the best model you can ...
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Does anyone claim freedom toward death is not for me, but for others?
There's a helpful question here on the notion of "freedom toward death" (Can "freedom toward death" have 'freedom' translated out of it?).
For this question, I find the ...
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Could ChatGPT etcetera undermine community by making statements less significant for us?
Tools like GPT are the culmination of decades of research spanning neuroscience, philosophy of mind and language, the mathematical theory of communication, as well as animal studies of learning which ...
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Could ChatGPT etcetera undermine community by making statements less significant for us?
The problem, in me humble opinion, lies elsewhere ... we're barking up the wrong tree. I'm not as worried about ChatGPT's prowess with words but with the rather disturbing ease with which ...
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Did Maurice Mearleau-Ponty really say this quote?
Yes, the quote is indeed from the Phenomenology of Perception. It can be found on page 482 of the Landes translation published by Routledge in 2012. The same passage, in different translation, can be ...
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Can we really "sympathise" with someone who really has tried to do the right thing, yet still think they are inauthentic?
Yes, we can sympathize with someone who did something we disagree with.
Suppose someone makes a math mistake. Everybody has made math mistakes; it is easy to sympathize with the person who has made ...
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Is this a point of contact between Marxism and Heidegger?
In the Letter on Humanism, Heidegger says he does not use of the words "authenticity" and "inauthenticity" as ethical terms. In the same letter, he says
Homelessness is coming to ...
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Is my existence contingent in experiences of nausea, and if so what is authenticity?
The nausea is the breakdown of a preconception, some network of assumptions that constitutes a paradigm that is giddyingly coming undone. On to the next, deeper level. Before & after are both ...
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Could ChatGPT etcetera undermine community by making statements less significant for us?
GenAI is a threat, because language is compression.
It's valid to treat the exact same statement made by a middle-schooler and by a seasoned professional differently. Because one cannot possibly have ...
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Authenticity in art
Both painters made their painting centuries after the event allegedly took place, so neither of them is "authentic" to what has actually happened, but both are presenting a version of "...
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Is my authenticity or inauthenticity anything to do with you?
Authenticity in philosophy is not generally about cultural expressions, but about being true to yourself, about acting in ways that relate authentically to who you are.
I argue wisdom is about a ...
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Is my authenticity or inauthenticity anything to do with you?
If my previous answer sounded too flippant, it's because the discussion of 'authenticity' in the context of cultural appropriation (and beyond) is one I personally consider to be very complex, if we ...
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How is Authenticity affected by external influences?
Authenticity means you should do things for reasons that make sense to you, as an individual, and not just because you're being socially pressured to do those things. Change only if you are persuaded ...
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How is Authenticity affected by external influences?
2. Is it even realistic to think that you will not be influenced/changed by external factors (people, media etc), thus rendering the whole concept of Authenticity/Being Yourself not really possible in ...
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Is there a traditional concept for virtues that inform our ideas of what we can know?
The Aristotelian 'intellectual virtues' - aretai dianoetikai - of Nicomachean Ethics (NE), VI.3 would be my first port of call. Aristotle enumerates and specifies in NE III-V a range of moral virtues ...
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Does anyone say that for some things to be fake just means that those things are not good?
I don't think 'sweeping generalization' is involved because the question is indexed only to 'some things' and asks whether for some things to be fake is for them to be not good.
A fake Vermeer (...
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