It’s always seemed bizarre to me how disconnected from the philosophical discourse the sequences are. It’s a series of philosophical positions articulated in ways that make naming them, and thus exposing oneself to the counter-arguments to them, and the ongoing discussions they are a part of, EXTREMELY difficult. If someone would just go through the sequences and label the ideas with their philosophical names and cite some of the people they are associated with in the larger philosophical discourse it seems like a lot of the discussion here could be short-cutted by simply exposing the community to the people who have already talked about this stuff.
It’s always seemed bizarre to me how disconnected from the philosophical discourse the sequences are. It’s a series of philosophical positions articulated in ways that make naming them, and thus exposing oneself to the counter-arguments to them, and the ongoing discussions they are a part of, EXTREMELY difficult. If someone would just go through the sequences and label the ideas with their philosophical names and cite some of the people they are associated with in the larger philosophical discourse it seems like a lot of the discussion here could be short-cutted by simply exposing the community to the people who have already talked about this stuff.
If the technology is there, the motivation is presumably missing.
In the days of High Rationalism, the very idea that the sequences would need fixing, or could be fixed by ordinary PhD’s would have been laughable.