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Cassius
April 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM Replied to the thread Discussion of Blog Article - "Reality Does Not Require Being Eternally The Same".PostThanks Martin. I'll take a look at that aspect as I get time. I suspect in the end the issue might be summarized as "Kant rejected dogmatism and Epicurus embraced dogmatism."
Obviously to drill down into that the word "dogmatism" would have to be… -
Cassius
April 1, 2026 at 2:54 PM Replied to the thread Revisiting Issues of The Use of AI in Epicurean Philosophy.Post[…]
I want to add into this thread as an aside that I have tremendous respect for the effort that Eikadistes has put into Epicurean philosophy over the years. Not only that, but he's younger than most of the rest of us here and he's having to live through… -
Eikadistes
Reaction (Post)April 1, 2026 at 12:59 PM This search of "metaphysics" at B&N does bring up what seems to be a majority of technical philosophy books, such as by Heidegger, but also some religion, and I see one on "Tarot." Glancing over the titles reminds me that to the extent I would have been… -
Eikadistes
Reaction (Post)April 1, 2026 at 12:58 PM The introduction of Warren's Cambridge Companion On Epicureanism says its chapters entitled "Epicurean atomism", "Cosmology and meteorology", "Psychology", and "Action and responsibility" are the ones which discuss "the major subject areas" of "physics… -
Eikadistes
April 1, 2026 at 12:54 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread Revisiting Issues of The Use of AI in Epicurean Philosophy.[…]
As some say but I am saying without any sarcasm to you, as the phrase goes, "hope is not a strategy."
I think you're absolutely right to be concerned about that. It seems to me very very likely to happen, so we have to fight against it with every tool… -
Cassius
April 1, 2026 at 12:53 PM Replied to the thread Revisiting Issues of The Use of AI in Epicurean Philosophy.Post[…]
As some say but I am saying without any sarcasm to you, as the phrase goes, "hope is not a strategy."
I think you're absolutely right to be concerned about that. It seems to me very very likely to happen, so we have to fight against it with every tool… -
Cassius
April 1, 2026 at 12:48 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Eikadistes’s post in the thread Revisiting Issues of The Use of AI in Epicurean Philosophy.I deleted my LinkedIn account a few weeks ago.
(Quick side-note, AI killed my industry a few month ago, so I'm trying to get into technical writing).
The last activity I registered on LinkedIn was a comment thread about the ethics of using AI in… -
Don
April 1, 2026 at 11:57 AM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Eikadistes’s post in the thread Revisiting Issues of The Use of AI in Epicurean Philosophy.I deleted my LinkedIn account a few weeks ago.
(Quick side-note, AI killed my industry a few month ago, so I'm trying to get into technical writing).
The last activity I registered on LinkedIn was a comment thread about the ethics of using AI in… -
Martin
April 1, 2026 at 11:49 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Don’s post in the thread Revisiting Issues of The Use of AI in Epicurean Philosophy.[…]
And therein lies the rub. In my scenario of bots posting and responding algorithmically, there is no "actual community of living Epicureans." There may be unlimited "Epicurean" content online in this scenario, but there is no community, no real… -
Martin
April 1, 2026 at 11:46 AM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Don’s post in the thread Revisiting Issues of The Use of AI in Epicurean Philosophy.[…]
Your scenario is still just positing an imitation of a Beatles song, and the "musician" didn't create it. The algorithm did, admittedly using a training data set of Epicurean texts, I suppose. Is it really Epicurus' "genuine teaching" if it's an…
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