And the fascination of these last months around conversational agents (like GPT-3 or ChatGPT 1), these algorithms born to chatter, can only question us. Bullshitters have an opinion about anything and everything, so they talk a lot about things they know almost nothing about. A bullshitter is not a liar (who is aware of deceiving), he is just totally indifferent to the truth, which makes him almost even more dangerous (“ bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are“). In 1986, the philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined the concept of “bullshit” by giving it a very precise meaning, sometimes translated into French as “ baratin“, for “smooth talk” or “flannel”. (this article was intially written in French, La société du bullshit)
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |