If the “heretic” philosophers of the Middle Ages saw the current state of knowledge production, they’d probably kill themselves again.Everything today is just endless repetition: same papers, same hypotheses, same databases, same results. The entire system runs on copy-paste. The foundations funding “science” only allow one format: the sacred paper. No risk, no originality, no truth.The pursuit of knowledge isn’t about enlightenment or progress anymore — it’s about ego. Prestige, money, awards, fame, citations. Creativity is gone; all that’s left is replicability and commentary on ideas that were fresh half a century ago.Academia turned into a closed, self-referential system (Luhmann nailed it). It’s pure intellectual onanism — the system citing itself to prove it still exists. “Everything must follow order and structure.” Translation: everything must be lifeless and identical.People from Arendt to Nietzsche to the Frankfurt School saw this coming, but no one listened.Philosophy, the old heart of knowledge itself, is frozen in time — stuck with a french philosophers from the 50-60's, well, and Kripke.The only real hope for change comes, ironically, from artificial intelligence. A non-human system that creates knowledge purely from information, self-sustaining, beyond human comprehension. At some point, its output will no longer be readable by us — and maybe then, in that void, humanity will be forced to create again from intuition.Maybe only then we’ll remember: the real way forward isn’t prestige or replication — it’s propositional logic.
Not reading your AI slop even if you put uncle Saul as the op pic, zoomie.
>>18104962To be real, there's only so much you can do with soft sciences of philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Most of it is mental masturbation and it's all been said before. All the major human developments at this point in human history are in hard sciences; chemistry, engineering, programming, and math.Most of us on this board have more of a mind for soft sciences than hard science; so just in your field of vision, it may seem like the world is stagnating. But it's certainly not. But learning hard science is a much more disciplined pursuit than the study of soft science and most of us simply don't have the discipline to study math/physics/chemical pursuits, let alone be on the cutting edge of them.Since we don't understand that stuff, it may seem as though the world is in urgent need of another Nietzschean ubermensch philosophical prophet to rejuvenate philosophical pursuits..... but that's not really the direction modern human history chose to go.If you want wisdom. Real wisdom. You gotta venture out of the soft sciences.
>>18104962>>18105043It's a good thing that no serious problem demands a solutionandit's a good thing to keep the structure of science alive even devoid of contentcope
>>18104962USA education overrun by leftists
>>18104962Hey I'm learning about Kripke semantics rn :)
