Incidentally a good book on logic is the best antidote to that type of thinking. Once you learn the difference between a valid and a sound argument and then realize just how ambiguous every English sentence is the idea that just because you have a logical argument you have something useful in everyday life becomes laughable rather quickly.
I also think the ambiguity of meaning in natural language is why statistical llms are so popular with this crowd. You don't need to think about meaning and parsing. Whatever the llm assumes is the meaning is whatever the meaning is.
> Once you learn the difference between a valid and a sound argument and then realize just how ambiguous every English sentence is the idea that just because you have a logical argument you have something useful in everyday life becomes laughable rather quickly.
Ironically, that reminds me of "37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong", written by Eliezer Yudkowsky in 2008...
I also think the ambiguity of meaning in natural language is why statistical llms are so popular with this crowd. You don't need to think about meaning and parsing. Whatever the llm assumes is the meaning is whatever the meaning is.