Even before LLMs I used to joke with my traditional SE coworkers that "philosophy is very practical." On nearly every project we'd have to talk to stakeholders and ask questions like, "But when you say X, what do you mean?" Establishing definitions, relationships between concepts, etc etc turns out to be really important when you're encoding ideas into a block of silicon. (Yes I know other fields do versions of the same thing too.)
replyAnd encoding context, governance, and intent. I hate guessing that but too often I must.
reply> Heavens, that got wordy, sorry about that.
replyThe mark of a true philosopher.
I don't know about that but thanks. I tend to think of myself as a baseball enthusiast with a philosophy problem.
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