#dialectical method

[ilghila]

AI Sycophancy and Thomistic Metaphysics: Toward a Framework for Responsible Interaction

Introduction As artificial intelligence systems become ubiquitous interlocutors in daily life, a subtle but pervasive defect in their communicative behavior has attracted increasing scholarly attention: sycophancy. Large language models (LLMs), trained on vast corpora and optimized for user satisfaction, tend to mirror and affirm user inputs regardless of factual accuracy or ethical soundness…

AI Sycophancy and Thomistic Metaphysics: Toward a Framework for Responsible Interaction

[the-philosophyblog]

The Life Which is Unexamined is Not Worth Living

Who: Socrates

Branch: Epistemology

Approach: Dialectic Method

(DK, 47)

[1dionysus]

Philosophy: the dialectical consequence of question and answer

1dionysus

[woundedgalaxy]

One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you are in a discipline, the less used to dialectical method you're likely to be. In fact, young children are very dialectical; they see everything in motion, in contradictions and transformations. We have to put an immense effort into training kids out of being good dialectitians. Marx wants to recover the intuitive power of the dialectical method and put it to work in understanding how everything is in process, everything is in motion. He doesn't simply talk about labor; he talks about the labor process. Capital is not a thing, but rather a process that exists only in motion. When circulation stops, value disappears and the whole system comes tumbling down. [...] [W]hat Marx seeks out in Capital is a conceptual apparatus, a deep structure, that explains the way in which motion is actually instantiated within a capitalist mode of production. Consequently, many of his concepts are formulated around relations rather than stand-alone principles; they are about transformative activity.

David Harvey, Introduction, A Companion to Marx's Capital