Harry G. #Frankfurt just died.
A man who introduced into #philosophy and #rhetoric the essential distinction between mere #lie and full blown #bullshit. He will be taught and fondly remembered.

https://youtu.be/_D9Y-1Jcov4

#HarryFrankfurt #philosophyoflanguage

> However studiously and conscientiously the bullshitter proceeds, it remains true that he is also trying to get away with something.
#HarryFrankfurt's #OnBullshit with
#JoePierre of #Psychology
> Unlike pseudoprofound bullshit, political bullshit isn’t designed to sound profound so much as it’s deliberately crafted as accessible if vague rhetoric to be used in speeches or off-the-cuff press conference remarks in the service of evading a more nuanced discussion of complex topics.
#ChatGPT

We are living in the greatest era of #Bullshit since our ancestors convinced themselves there were greater #growth opportunities in the #Savannah. Haippy Thursday!

#HarryFrankfurt

It's great to start reading of #HarryFrankfurt's work on #Bullshit.^1

I just learned of it while reading a conversation between #JuliaAngwin and #ArvindNarayanan^2about #AISnakeOil. It keeps making me think of #NeilPostman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, and marketing... lack of humility, "irrational exuberance"..

^1 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on-bullshit
^2 https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/28/decoding-the-hype-about-ai

Harry Frankfurt's Bullshit came to me while reading about #ChatGTP and #AI in general: Sounds like advertising.
> ... bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on-bullshit
#HarryFrankfurt's #Bullshit #Bullshitter sounds like #NeilPostman on #Advertising since the 1890's

"Among the media class’s artisanal industries of the past few years has been trying to find a thread that runs through Johnson the journalist, the globalist mayor of London & the Brexit prime minister. Frankfurt furnishes that link: it is bullshit.

Bullshit is where newspaper stories about Italians demanding smaller condoms meet plans for an airport on an island in the Thames meet promises of an “oven-ready” Brexit deal"

#OnBullshit #HarryFrankfurt #BorisJohnson #Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/22/politics-difference-between-lies-bullshit

"Among the media class’s artisanal industries of the past few years has been trying to find a thread that runs through Johnson the journalist, the globalist mayor of London & the Brexit prime minister. Frankfurt furnishes that link: it is bullshit.

Bullshit is where newspaper stories about Italians demanding smaller condoms meet plans for an airport on an island in the Thames meet promises of an “oven-ready” Brexit deal"

#OnBullshit #HarryFrankfurt #BorisJohnson #Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/22/politics-difference-between-lies-bullshit

As we seem to be at an inflection point again in social networking and communication, I thought I'd share some of my related doom metal music. Samples wisdom from @ct_bergstrom #bergstrom #JevinWest #HarryFrankfurt Listen to The Gravity of False by project doomstrike on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/ch8mC