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Brain in a Vat
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Chat GPT: The Future of Philosophy
I remember wondering how I knew my parents hadn't been like kidnapped by aliens and replaced by lookalikes who had evil intentions. Isn't it so cool that all these questions that puzzled our heads as children are questions that philosophers study? So one thought is whether we will now reach the end of history when it comes to philosophy. But maybe it reaches a point where you can get some finality. The classic Douglas Adams joke about what's the answer to meaning of life is 42, is that really the earth is this gigantic supercomputer that tries to answer these fundamental questions. And maybe we've now just built this supercomputer that chat GPT will be able to really steer us in a particular
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