[Wittgenstein] is not talking about language, as Rorty and Wayfarer’s Kenneth Taylor take it, he is looking at how we talk, in certain examples (calling out, rule following, pointing, continuing a series, seeing, understanding, and, even, “meaning”/language, but only as another example), because it is a window, a method, in order to see how different things do what they do differently (our criteria for judging can be seen in the ways we talk).

His goal is not to tell us the way the world works, e.g., by way of rules, or that this is how rules work. Initially he is trying to figure out why he got stuck on one solution (in the Tract[atus]), when the world works in so many different ways. What he learns first is that our desire for certainty narrows our vision (dictates the form of answer), and so, yes, it is a book about self-knowledge. It aims to show us how our interests affect our thinking. — Antony Nickles

Male sexuality is limited only by permission. — Hanover

Are humans naturally polyamorous or naturally monogamous? — Benj96

Thank you Proof! — punos

I'm curious to know if you agree with or subscribe to Spinoza's concept of natura naturans?

↪Moses The same aim as it has always been: remove all Palestinians from Palestine and create a greater Israel from the river to the sea with Apartheid in its borders; where non-Jews will have less rights than Jews and Mizrahi, Sephardic and Ethiopian Jews will be discriminated against by their right wing supremacist AshkeNazi "brothers". — Benkei

Do you agree that the philosopher must uphold, almost, a fiduciary duty towards the public, in terms of living a certain life? — Shawn

I sum up Wittgenstein as saying "Let me explain to you how there is no such thing as an explanation." — Fire Ologist

What is it about SPECIFICALLY Wittgenstein that it elicits the worst forms of elitism and gatekeeping in this forum? — schopenhauer1

(1) Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

(2) I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

(3) The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

(4) A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

(5) The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

(6) Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

(7) What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Feel free to point out where the logic of the OP is flawed and we can discuss that. — Philosophim

Good - what should be
Existence - what is
Morality - a method of evaluating what is good
Our first necessarily objective good: Existence
— Philosophim

:lol:

Nonexistence never hurt anyone and existence hurts everyone. Although our selves may be illusory creations of consciousness, our pain is nonetheless real..
— Thomas Ligotti — 180 Proof

Why would an Artificial General Intelligence care about living things? — Truth Seeker

Good - what should be
Existence - what is
Morality - a method of evaluating what is good
Our first necessarily objective good: Existence — Philosophim

Nonexistence never hurt anyone and existence hurts everyone. Although our selves may be illusory creations of consciousness, our pain is nonetheless real. — Thomas Ligotti

(A) economic democracy (supplimented by local time-banking networks)
and/or
(B) more speculatively: AGI-managed post-scarcity, reputation-based demarchy.

There is essentially zero afterlife mention[ed] in the Hebrew Bible. — BitconnectCarlos

If you can't figure out what's wrong with #2, you are not thinking or engaging in good faith.
— Lionino

You should state what's wrong with it. — Hallucinogen

(2) If some observation corresponds to some Bible-specific proposition, then it is evidence that Christianity is true. — Hallucinogen

STFU moron. — Moses

Well, there's the rub. How can we ever determine if any Ai has agency? — RogueAI

There will probably eventually be human-level Ai's that demand negative rights at least. Or if they're programmed not to demand rights, the question will then become is programming them to NOT want rights immoral?

We'll have human-level Ai's before too long. Are they conscious? — RogueAI

Do they have rights?

What is human originality, then? — Nemo2124

What is it that we can come up with that cannot ultimately be co-opted by the machine?