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human
How do I helpfully interact with undergrads who approach me inquiring about Harris, Petersen, Molyneux, etc.?

This semester alone, I’ve had half a dozen or so undergrads approach me before and after lectures/sections to ask whether I listen to their podcasts, what I think about them, and so on. So far I’ve expressed an unfamiliarity with them so as to be careful. Is there a better way to approach this?
gpt
This seems like a good opportunity to emphasize basic interpretive skills. For example, if you try to *outline* a Molyneux talk, eliminating the snarky rhetoric and simply attempting to show the steps of an argument, accounting for explicit premises and implicit assumptions, things tend to fall apart pretty quickly. Even his book on UPB comes apart almost immediately when you simply try to understand it, rather than allowing yourself to be swept along by all the distractions involved.