The Future Currency of Achievement in Human Philosophy

“What do we lose if LLMs kill the journal system? Nothing but some heavy ass chains, and a few weak heuristics for assessing CVs quickly that were never worth the outrageous amounts of time and labour the journal system wasted anyway.” . That’s Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto), who knows a little bit more than the average philosopher about the journal system, having co-founded Ergo. With AI and “a little human guidance,” he says, you can crank out the kind of papers that make up 95% of what we publish in a few hours. Soon (already?), human guidance may not even be necessary. Do I find this depressing? Just the opposite. Sure, I built my career on this skill, honed it for decades, and now a computer can do it in a hundredth of the time... But this was always a goofy way of making a living… [I]t’s always been a drag dealing with bafflingly slow journals, maddeningly lazy referees, and typesetters so incompetent it must be a bit. The publication process puts years of frustrated waiting, and…