Hey bro.
I don't think any field of philosophy is bullshit.
Why not? Of course it can be bullshit. Why would the field of Philosophy (today especially) be impervious to bullshit man? Does it have men and women in it? Yes. So it can be bullshit. I will explain more below.
The work has no practical applications, but it has very important implications, especially in the emerging areas of AI and the discussion of sentience and machine consciousness.
Look, I'm not any sort Philosophy success or even a particularly scholarly fellow on all of the related points which I am about to make but...your wrong.
Let's tackle the "hard problem of consciousness" trendy stuff first. Ok?
Everything you've seen from these modern philosophers is stuff that I too found sexy and neat to talk about. I was doing it a long while ago, and it impressed people. But I knew something was wrong with it. Just like WE KNOW, something is
wrong with the way people behave today. (Ex: foids, Chad's, Normies whatever). There are so many signs, it's an allegorical snapshot of our times.
You know that there is no real "new" advancements coming out in the law fields right? It's all masturbation by Normies stuck in their NPC bubble. Be real about it.
Why would we need to know whether consciousness is material or not? It's an interesting question yes, but the emphasis they put on it in lectures and Ted talks is just showboating. There is no real advancement in the emerging field of AI man. We are so far away from having any technology that could somehow make the "hard problem" remotely relevant in any practical way. And, if it's not important in any practical way, with all the more pressing issues in the humanities fields right now, why even talk about it or entertain it? I know I know...the answer is, Normie academics use it to try and make women wet, to try and seduce their audience, career fame, all of the above etc etc.
It's funny I was just seeing on FoX Jessie Waters shows these idiot anchors were trying to talk about whether AI is really a threat or not. I mean, the shit can write poems and papers for high schoolers (which is impressive in itself, yes) but then they try to do this shit where they say "oh know it's going become sentient and take over the world blaa blaa". That's pure bullshit to worry about in the current timeframe we live in. I may like many things Elon Musk is saying/doing right now, but when he talks about this, is showboating. Same with the modern talking-head philosophers like Sam Harris or Chalmers who are helping to turn this into a big circus. And now, everyone thinks it's some big thing when actually it is meaningless to worry about or pay attention to. Therefore this whole thing about AI becoming autonomous anytime soon is total seduction masturbation talk.