
Intellectuals (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
Minds Almost Meeting
The Functions of Intellectuals
I don't take myself to be passing judgment on what people might use something for like here's a pen right you might use it to give an example of the color light blue. There are many kinds of things that we designed to make sure they can be used in multiple ways right and so I'm finally saying there are multiple ideals that we have to be thinking about hereMultiple purposes as long as those purposes don't conflict too much because if they conflict a lot we would then want two different things to do this two different jobs. We could easily list some of the social functions that people called intellectuals appear just be able to serve in a larger society, he says.
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