Re:Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines
by raincom on Sunday February 09, 2025 @05:39PM
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Since you are on Frankfurtian bullshit, why don't you consider Late G.A. Cohen's take on intellectual bullshit (bullshit perpetuated in the academia), as the latter's notion of bullshit is linked to knowledge, unlike the bullshit we hear from salesmen, showmen, etc.
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Re:Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines
by ctbergstrom on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:39AM
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We've discussed Cohen's work in our book _Calling Bullshit_, but the type of bullshit the Cohen focuses on — unclarifiable unclarity, particularly in academic writing — is not what LLMs produce so it strikes us as far less relevant to this course than Frankfurt's notion.