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British empiricism, skepticism, utilitarianism, and liberalism are framed as a philosophical sequence that denies God and truth and replaces them with experience, convention, and utility.
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Skepticism
British empiricism, skepticism, utilitarianism, and liberalism are framed as a philosophical sequence that denies God and truth and replaces them with experience, convention, and utility.
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Jiang explicitly frames the class as speculation and theory, not proven truth, and tells students to be skeptical and doubtful.
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Jiang says the three predictions capture the essence of Alexander's life, but he also instructs the class to be skeptical and ask whether the model's prejudice may make them unfair to Alexander.
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Jiang defines British empiricism as the view that we can only know what we experience or see, and links it to skepticism toward abstract philosophy.
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"Okay. So where the 17th Frank is and where the British Empire clapped the most was in philosophy, developing an understanding of the world..."
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"...and only experience. Okay. Then Hume proposed a new idea called skepticism. And he goes in further. He goes in further than John Locke...."
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"So what he's saying is the very project of truth seeking, the very project of epistemonology, of philosophy, it's all nonsense. Not only that,..."
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"If it causes pleasure for the majority of people, then that policy must be good. If people want to eat candy all the time..."
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"okay that's a great question okay so if it's true that social media is a mechanism for social control why are they controlled by..."
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"about what's really going on okay and also like um I don't know what they did in Egypt 5,000 years ago I'm just speculating..."
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"and try to reason with him, he will see you as a threat, as disloyal, and as an enemy who must be eliminated, okay?..."
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"Alexander the Great, and we're gonna see that on the surface, it does actually capture well, or explains well. What is his life? At..."
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"...see, okay? So another word for empiricism is the idea of skepticism. Be skeptical of abstract philosophy, okay? Because we can never know it...."
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"...has a very skeptical view of AI, her, I share her skepticism. Okay. So what I'm going to do this, this class is share..."
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"Six years after my initial skepticism about OpenAI's, uh, altruism, I've come to firmly believe that OpenAI's mission to ensure AGI benefits all of..."
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"...uh David Hume okay David Hume and David Hume argued for skepticism and skepticism just says that um everything that you know is actually..."
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A source-grounded reading of Alexander as the inheriting son: expansionist, obedience-hungry, and unable to hear correction except as betrayal.
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