> You have to start from how the reality works and then derive your work.
Every philosopher eventually came to the same realization: We don't have access to the world as it is. We have access to a model of the world as it predicts and is predicted by our senses. In so far as there is a correlation between the two in whatever fidelity we can muster, we are fated to direct access to a simulacrum.
For the most part they agree, but we have a serious flaw - our model inevitably influences our interpretation of our senses. This sometimes gets us into trouble when aspects of our model become self-reinforcing by framing sense input in ways that amplify the part of the model that confers the frame. For example, you live in a very different world if you search for and find confirmation for cynicism.
Arguing over metaphysical ontology is exemplified by kids fighting about which food (their favorite) is the best. It confuses subjectivity and objectivity. It might appear radical, but all frames are subjective even ones shared by the majority of others.
Sure, Schopenhauer's philosophy is the mirror of his own nature, but there is no escape hatch. There is no externality - no objective perch to rest on, even ones shared by others. That's not to say that all subjectivities are equally useful for navigating the world. Some models work better than others for prediction, control, and survival. But we should be clear that useful does not equate with truth, as all models are wrong, some are useful.
JC, I read the rest. The author doesn’t seem to grasp how profit actually works. Price and value are not welded together: you can sell something for more or less than the value it generates. Using his own example, if the AI and the human salesperson do the same work, their value is identical, independent of what each costs or commands in the market.
He seems wedded to a kind of market value realism, and from this shaky premise, he arrives at some bizarre conclusions.