On this page I'll post a handful of philosophers and influential figures I've learned about (mostly from my time as an undergrad at SDSU). Nothin' fancy, most of it's just gonna be a handful of notes, although I'll probably expand on them. No I'm not a Philosophy major. but I think Philosophy is important, if not for its own sake, then as a way to improve our (critical) thinking in other fields like Computer Science. Also, I don't necessarily agree on every (or sometimes even any) viewpoints of anyone featured here.

My personal views

• I value the ability to humor different points of view to understand them without necessarily agreeing with all (or any) of their points.
• Philosophy should go hand in hand with science. I think it's important to critically evaluate things from different perspectives.
  • consequently, diversity of thought is promoted through diversity of lived experiences.
  • science is not the end-all be-all of things epistemologically. It's a methodology for continuously evaluating data, turning it into facts and from there, creating knowledge.

Everything is inherently political

You cannot divorce politics from any subject.

Very Interesting People

Kwame Nkrumah -
Vernor Vinge - Coined the term "Singularity" in 1982 to describe AI's potential exponential growth
Dasniel - just some fucking dude