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Naval cribs a lot of his musings from various books, but never credits them, passes them off as his own. Folks who have read most or all of the same books he h

Naval cribs a lot of his musings from various books, but never credits them, passes them off as his own. Folks who have read most or all of the same books he has can recognize the source. He so desperately wants to be a philosopher, but is cheating at it.

davnicwil 3y ago
Does any philosopher mostly come up with their own unique ideas in a black box, uninfluenced by and not based upon ideas that preceded them in culture and literature? This is an actual question, I don't know the answer, but it does seem extremely unlikely to me that this would be the case.
- Kye 3y ago
  I don't think getting ideas from elsewhere was the issue.
- SkyMarshal 3y ago
  > Does any philosopher mostly come up with their own unique ideas in a black box, No of course not. Philosophy is a progression of original insights built upon the prior progression of original insights. But the key word here is "original", aka a leap of intuition that reveals something about existence not previously recognized. Not regurgitated, un-credited, pop-philosophy.
  - davnicwil 3y ago
    yeah, fair enough. On first reading of your comment I missed that the 'cheating' was specifically describing the repetition of prior ideas without credit, as opposed to generally.
    - SkyMarshal 3y ago
      Oh right, yeah it's basically a form of plagiarism for internet cred instead of a grade in school.
q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
It's all regurgitated and repackaged into tweet-size aphorisms, too. It's a sort of junk-food version of philosophy. I feel like "Sapiens" and Eckhart Tolle cover a large percentage of what he's saying (though admittedly I haven't checked out his latest musings). I wonder if anyone's crowd-sourced a "top 5" of what the underlying worthwhile books to read would be. Some brief searching turned up this "reading list," [1] though it looks a lot like one of those book-lists people make to show how they smart they are. [1]: https://www.kevinrooke.com/book-recommendations/naval-ravikant https://www.kevinrooke.com/book-recommendations/naval-ravika...

davnicwil 3y ago

Does any philosopher mostly come up with their own unique ideas in a black box, uninfluenced by and not based upon ideas that preceded them in culture and literature? This is an actual question, I don't know the answer, but it does seem extremely unlikely to me that this would be the case.

Kye 3y ago
I don't think getting ideas from elsewhere was the issue.
SkyMarshal 3y ago
> Does any philosopher mostly come up with their own unique ideas in a black box, No of course not. Philosophy is a progression of original insights built upon the prior progression of original insights. But the key word here is "original", aka a leap of intuition that reveals something about existence not previously recognized. Not regurgitated, un-credited, pop-philosophy.
- davnicwil 3y ago
  yeah, fair enough. On first reading of your comment I missed that the 'cheating' was specifically describing the repetition of prior ideas without credit, as opposed to generally.
  - SkyMarshal 3y ago
    Oh right, yeah it's basically a form of plagiarism for internet cred instead of a grade in school.

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago

It's all regurgitated and repackaged into tweet-size aphorisms, too. It's a sort of junk-food version of philosophy. I feel like "Sapiens" and Eckhart Tolle cover a large percentage of what he's saying (though admittedly I haven't checked out his latest musings). I wonder if anyone's crowd-sourced a "top 5" of what the underlying worthwhile books to read would be. Some brief searching turned up this "reading list," [1] though it looks a lot like one of those book-lists people make to show how they smart they are. [1]: https://www.kevinrooke.com/book-recommendations/naval-ravikant https://www.kevinrooke.com/book-recommendations/naval-ravika...