I still fantasize sometimes about going back to college for a postgrad degree in philosophy. I look at old philosophers and I think “I could do that! I could be one of the boring dudes students a century from now will hate to have as assigned reading!”
Rather than an AI that summarizes text, I wonder if an AI that quotes text would be more useful. It tries to isolate the important statements, like an automated SavedYouAClick.
People say Wittgenstein exposed how much philosophy is meaningless word games pretending to be logic. So I tried reading Tractatus, and guys, it’s meaningless word games pretending to be logic.