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Thinking Philosophically to Avoid Getting Manipulated. Brain in a Vat & Keith Knight

Keith Knight - Don't Tread on Anyone

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Aristotle's Principle of Impreciseness in Language

A, i do think we can sensibly talk about some group behavior. I think it might be that not all actions can be and we're using blant terms but i think we might be able to sort of know enough. A, tes, i think it's an aristotle line about, you know, how precise is ta right angle? The terms used by a geometrician and a carpenter are different. You know, for the geometrician must be exactly 90 degrees. For the carpenter, well, 89 91, it's good enough.

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