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I don't disagree that the tech community is unprepared to deal with these subjects, but this sort of comment is really not helpful. It's fine to be critical, bu
by keiferski 3y ago
I don't disagree that the tech community is unprepared to deal with these subjects, but this sort of comment is really not helpful. It's fine to be critical, but at least share some links [1] or give a hint as to where you think most commenters go wrong. Otherwise, this comment merely adds negativity to an important discussion.
[1] Lots of good articles here at SEP, although they can be a bit technical: https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=consciousness https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=consciou...
- ryanklee 3y agoHow is it not helpful to point out that people are not having the kind of conversation that they think they are having, or that their assertions do not have the weight they believe them to have? Presumably most people here are familiar with at least 1 serious intellectual subject. They are welcome to treat another with the same seriousness, and I presume as well they would know how, if they'd just bother to do so.
- keiferski 3y agoIt's not helpful because you offer no further solutions, only complaints. Nothing in your comment pointed toward anything that helped resolve the problem you are complaining about. Even worse, it just invokes hostility from people that you supposedly want to help educate. When you make these kind of complaints without offering any solutions, it comes across as if you only care about appearing intellectually superior, not being helpful.
- ryanklee 3y agoPeople are out here disregarding entire fields of study, and I'm the one who is pretending to be intellectually superior? If this were a group of willfully ignorant creationists, the simple act of pointing them to the existence of evolutionary studies wouldn't be so easily objected to.