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Moral relativism is ... human.

Sure, it's hard to defend. But we embody it nonetheless. We're emotional creatures, we lack logical consistency in a fundamental way.




> we lack logical consistency in a fundamental way

... and "AI's don't really understand" as people say

So, in the end, is anyone/anything capable of reasoning? Probably only humans in their specific fields of expertise. Even then, we are often updating our reasoning patterns in light of new discoveries, upturning previous reasoning.

99% of the time humans are just GPTs with hands and legs generating untrustworthy logic.


I'm starting to think that chess engines are capable of reasoning but humans and LLMs are not.




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