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Alex Kozak's avatar

I wish I'd taken a course from Dreyfus, especially on this topic, but aside from the occasional seminar he only taught Heidegger and lower division courses in the early 2000s. Here's his course list for the last decade of his life (https://philosophy.berkeley.edu/people/courses/12). It's interesting in hindsight that even with Searle still teaching, there was no 'AI' course at Berkeley. I suspect they all viewed it as an old and settled debate and subsumed under Mind. I wonder if that's changed!

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Nicklas Berild Lundblad's avatar

AI is too concrete for philosophy :)

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Alex Kozak's avatar

That's funny ... I would have said it's way too vague!

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Nicklas Berild Lundblad's avatar

Maybe - although a discipline that produced Hegel feels like it can deal with vague.

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Dimitri Glazkov's avatar

The quest for thinning our ontology to unlock paths forward feels so resonant. In platform engineering, it's a question of opinion: https://glazkov.com/2022/02/23/the-cost-of-opinion/

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Nicklas Berild Lundblad's avatar

Exactly - thin ontologies are informed by epistemic humility and parsimony.

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