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BatmansMom • today at 4:55 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

This sounds super interesting but 477 pages is a beast. Would you recommend anything about this subject thats a bit more approachable?


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RGS1811 • today at 5:04 PM

Brandom wrote a shorter version of the book, called "Articulating Reasons", which is available in full on his faculty page [1], or from booksellers. He's a very wordy writer (kind of exhausting to read, even for someone who enjoys philosophy), but if you get ahold of Making It Explicit, chapters 2 and 3 have the meat of the ideas I'm talking about here.

[1] https://sites.pitt.edu/~rbrandom/Courses/2022%20Phil%20of%20...

Edit: One of my ways of benchmarking new AI models is actually to type a version of this prompt in and see how sophisticated the response is: "Talk to me about the concept of deontic scorekeeping in the context of llms". You'll get good mileage out of that.