Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

Language and Experience, with Isabela Granic

Mar 26, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Problem With Language Models

2min

The Importance of a Corpus in Philosophy

2min

The Importance of Context in a Language Model

3min

The Importance of Reading Texts

3min

The Importance of Philosophy in Creativity

3min

The Meta Crisis and the Importance of Philosophy

5min

The Cost of Writing a Book

2min

The Importance of Time in Writing

4min

10.

The Illusion of Understanding the Insights of Chat GPT

2min

11.

The Importance of Clarity in Philosophy

2min

12.

The Opposite Pull of Philosophy

2min

13.

The Importance of Poetry

3min

14.

The Importance of Defamiliarization in Art

2min

15.

The Purpose of Art

4min

16.

The Problem of Universals

2min

17.

The Importance of Perception and Action in Life

6min

18.

The Importance of Logic in Functional Philosophy

3min

19.

The Importance of Implicit Chat GPT

2min

20.

The Importance of Intuition Over Rationality

3min

21.

The Point of Philosophy and the Writing of Philosophy

4min

22.

The Importance of Dependent Origination in Western Canada Philosophy

3min

23.

The Importance of Experience in Experimental Sciences

2min

Part 4 in a series of interviews on the book I'm working on, Neither/Nor. In this episode, ⁠Isabela Granic⁠ and I discuss how AI technologies like ChatGPT relate to experience. We move into Schopenhauer's distinction between rationality and the intuition in The World as Will and Representation.

Topics discussed:

Previous podcast episode: ⁠The AI and Dark Forest, with Maggie Appleton⁠
The explicit versus implicit in text
Philosophy is about changing your mind and life
Opportunity costs of reading
Brian Magee article on clarity in philosophical texts: Sense and Nonsense
My thread on Shklovsky and defamiliarization
Tolstoy's Hadji Murat
My thread on Janus words, Freud's (un)heimlich
Richard Wilhelm's I Ching
Graham: Zhuangzi's reaction against logic for ends in life (as opposed to means): aphorism, example, parable, and poetry
We'll come back to mathematics at some point
We'll come back to language models as averages
Dependent Origination article

Previous episodes:

Part 3 of this series: AI and Pyrrhonism
Part 2 of this series: ⁠A Philosophical Journey
Part 1 of this series: Causality and Conditionality

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