What seems unlikely? This is a whole essay addressing various ways of reasoning about the value of death to a person. I'm feeling frustrated that the engagement with this kind of content on HN is bald and unclear assertion. (This is not directed solely to you, but also to the other commenter so far).
It's not that philosophy is dumb. It's just that it's useless. Nobody has any clue about what the fuck are we doing here or if there is any reason to it at all, so philosophy in the end is just a debate about the gender of the angels. It's a waste of time, and mocking/ignoring it is the most reasonable attitude one can have.
> It's not that philosophy is dumb. It's just that it's useless.
If I take a moment and think through that statement, I highly doubt you even believe this. And if it is sincere, then it just reinforces the point of the person that you were replying to.
Do you think logic is useless? What about ethics and politics? What counts as science? What counts as knowledge? These are all philosophical inquiries.
Even your statement that it's "useless" is a philosophical judgement. What makes something "useful" and not a waste of time? I guess you can make the argument that certain fields within philosophy are useless, but at this point, you're already doing philosophy again.
You can try and ignore philosophy, but you're not going to avoid doing it. At worse, you'll just be doing it poorly.
