I think philosophy has gone back and forth for so long that they're now, as a field, pathologically afraid of actually committing. The AI connection with LessW

I think philosophy has gone back and forth for so long that they're now, as a field, pathologically afraid of actually committing. The AI connection with LessWrong means that the whole thing is framed with a backdrop of "how would you actually construct a mind?" That means you can't just chew on the questions, you have to actually commit to an answer and run the risk of being wrong. This teaches you two things: 1. How to figure what you actually believe the answer is, and why, and make sure that this is the best answer that you can give; 2. how to keep moving when you notice that you made a misstep in part 1.