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Scott Aaronson on Philosophical Progress (2013) (intelligence.org)
36 points by jasim on July 31, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> One final note: none of the positive or hopeful things that I said about philosophy apply to the postmodern or Continental kinds. As far as I can tell, the latter aren’t really “philosophy” at all, but more like pretentious brands of performance art that fancy themselves politically subversive, even as they cultivate deliberate obscurity and draw mostly on the insights of Hitler and Stalin apologists.

Wow, that about sums it up. :-)




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