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lapcattoday at 3:39 PM1 replyview on HN

> “Where are they, the great next philosophers, the equivalents of Kant or Wittgenstein or even Aristotle?” the DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis wondered on a podcast last year.

According to (later) Wittgenstein, philosophy is basically a bad habit that needs breaking.


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throw4847285today at 4:01 PM

That's a common misunderstanding of Wittgenstein, and it's intellectually lazy.

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