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This theme is what I think attracted me to pursue reading Adorno, along with your and everyone else's help. Stringency, rigor, reason -- these are thi...

I'd say that's only because we're all rats in the mindless race. It's just a part of life in the capitalist world.

I'm pretty sure that's what the university is meant to be, though it fails to live up to the ideal. Personally I think we have a preponderance of bull...

I don't believe you're a bigot. I think you're a person of good character: else I wouldn't have engaged. I'd rather say that sometimes the words we us...

Supposing that's true: So what? Can't you see that the life-changing decision is truly life-changing one way or the other? That to not-transition is a...

A bigot? No. They're clearly in a place of conflict. I'd only want them to feel it's OK to transition while they don't think it is.

This is exactly the sort of thing I want to combat: it's not immoral to transition. This is a false belief passed down from an ancient world where big...

Sure we can. I think that's not quite right :D I'd rather say that your response here is exactly where we're missing one another. Epicurus follows alo...

I'm not sure. That's what I'm attempting at the moment, though. There's a sense in which, sure, if I follow along with the thoughts of my own heritage...

https://youtu.be/uP3uCLXnpKw?si=2JXV0MEtu60lBheX I think this qualifies as classical.

This has been my approach all along. I am also strongly stating that these sorts of questions aren't really up for debate here -- but am hoping to do ...

For Epicurus the human nature is more fixed (though fixed by atomic combinations so the possibilities for what a human can be is pretty large). I'd ra...

Re-reading and seeing I did not address this. I'd rather say that a father understands their role and accepts pain when it comes. The Epicurean cure i...

I agree. There's much more that needs to be said for a proper summary.

I deny that men or women have natures, that sex has a nature, and that gender has a nature but I think the concept of a human nature workable. And I w...

An attempted (very, obscenely brief) summation of the Introduction: Philosophy is a discipline unto itself, and ND is an attempt at sketching a method...

OK with your help I finished the introduction now. Thing, Language, History I read as Adorno's answer, actually -- and the follow up is a "close secon...

I'm finding this useful for the beginning. I reread the first paragraph several times before deciding to find someone else's interpretation just to ge...

Sort of. I worry about that phrase if we're being specific. One thing to note is that I think we're a social species, for instance, so "social constru...

The perverted plants knew, all along -- having sex thru other species all under our noses (and with others' noses and knowses).

"Sex" is a differentiation within a species. "Gender" is a differentiation between cultures. The relationship between "gender" and "sex" is fully one ...

Sure. Says who? Levinas notes the opposite. I'd say my position is both/and -- yes there are ties to sex from gender, but they are not essentialist ti...

And that is specifically where we disagree in terms of meta-criteria. My thought in thinking about liberal/conservative was to note how there's not re...

Where am I wrong? Do you or do you not believe others -- every single other human being -- should be married before having sex and should only be marr...

It's not crazy to me what @"Jamal" said -- it was something I felt. No one -- absolutely no one -- thinks about Aristotle while fucking. Yes or no? I ...

I'd say the reason I'm short with your responses is this line of reasoning. It looks entirely irrelevant to the point at hand. It's like saying "but t...

I'd like to start somewhere in our presuppositions. I don't think we've nailed these down at all, but that feels like the proper place to start if we'...

Yeh, we're the same there. I'm also willing to take my chances.

I am claiming that -- especially in respect to the original topic. I'd rather say that your expression is something I need not argue against -- it des...

There is not any difference in the world -- only in the philosopher's mind.

We've always managed to do so so far. I hope and suspect that we will. Would you mind if I suggested another starting point?

I'd put our conversation differently than you have here. I didn't try to get your OP banned or trip you up with labels. If it needs to be said I belie...

This is the part I'm disagreeing with. Not Nazi-ism, but rather that homosexuality is on par with schizophrenia. They are not the same or even analogo...

I don't think so. There is no real basis in sex is my point of view. There is also no such thing as degenerate sex, nor do people with different kinks...

There's a difference between how you're treating homosexuals and how we treat schizophrenics. For one I don't think a schizophrenic is "degenerate" fo...

It does. Especially given the scenario. There I have pause. But mostly because I'm not trans. I'd like it if it were possible that trans individuals h...

Should children have any -ectomy's ? Is that something we can decide by law? I'd prefer to let the people in the situation to decide with their doctor...

No, I don't think so. I think the story you linked is a tragedy. I don't think this is unique to trans individuals, though. Healthcare decisions are n...

I mostly agreed with the basics -- but where I disagree is in analyzing such-and-such as a right. No one claims a right to being gendered correctly. T...

All humans have a right to live and pursue happiness. Trans humans are humans. Therefore, trans humans have a right to live and pursue happiness. Ther...

I'll admit I was wondering how to respond to the difference between dyadic and triadic @"Leontiskos" -- not that you're in gobbledegook territory for ...

https://bbc.com/future/article/20251008-truth-terminal-the-ai-bot-that-became-a-real-life-millionaire

I like your rendition of the argument just above your question: Nice and clear, and it tracks well enough with my understanding at this point. I don't...

Finally got to reading it today. I feel conflicted on a first read: There's a sense in which I can grant his argument and a sense in which I could def...

We are. And I have a decent idea on how to teach, so one could say that I have an idea about how we learn. One which functions towards other minds gro...

Cool. I think I'd put it that neural nets are just as rigidly rule-based, but with rules that allow difference. Suppose a Pachinko machine: If a puck ...

Neural nets aren't radically other from other computers, imo. Each node is weighted in this or that way, and based on feedback will change. These node...

I'd like to think that I'm making an assertion in addition to stipulating: Not just "this is how I'm using the words" but also "this way of using the ...

For my part it's not the hidden intent as much as that the AI is not thinking at all -- at least no more than a bundle of circuits are thinking. We se...

Arguing over what Marx or Kant or Hegel really meant -- not a bad use of time.