I’m not a mod here, but I tend to think that encouraging the use of Chatbots as interlocutors in our philosophical discussions is not a direction in t...
What is the motive for anti-natalism? What is the motive for suicide? With respect to the latter, most psychologists would tell you that suicide is ‘l...
I’m not afraid of death, I’m concerned about quality of life. Survival for survival’s sake carries no appeal for me. I would rather not be alive than ...
Do you think that all murderers necessarily think of themselves as murderers rather than, for instance, as committing acts that according to their mor...
Whoever claimed that liberalism was a goal in itself? Certainly not those people of faith who cherish the ethical goals their Judaism, Christianity or...
Were you also looking for a critique of your framework? I don’t understand how my comments on what you call an ‘evolutionary systems model’ don’t have...
As an evolutionary systems model, it’s taking too reductive a stance to grasp the site of evolutionary selective pressures and order creation. The uni...
I’m not interested in a revolution. I’m interested in protecting people in my community that I care about. And you didn’t answer my question: What wou...
And what do you plan on doing? Anything? What would you do if you were a university president threatened with loss of grant money, or a news service o...
Have you been attending the 50501 protests? There’s another one planned for next Saturday. I think you’ll find that they will grow significantly in si...
I wonder how many died of the 1 million who demonstrated in Puerto Rico? I’ll bet some would have thought it was worth it. I watched him try and derai...
I don’t know you, and haven’t followed most of your previous comments on politics, so I dont know what your political perspective is in general. There...
How about your fears? Do you fear that we now have our first dictator as president? Do you not find this EO terrifying: Addressing Risks Associated wi...
Absolutely. And one of the most chilling things I’ve ever heard are these comments from Miles Taylor, who , along with Krebs , was singled out by Trum...
You’d have to talk to the individuals in the unions, but in general I’d say that blue-collar unions will be dominated by social conservatives. Probabl...
No, Deleuze would not agree with Land about accelerationism. Land hadn’t the vaguest idea what the essence of Deleuze's philosophy was. I read The Dar...
Of course nobody is controlling Trump behind the scenes. Elon Muak’s tech mafia mistakenly thought they could do so, and Wall Street thought they had ...
Frank, I don’t know how you personally define political conservatism and leftism, but I believe there is much confusion over who exactly they apply to...
Are you saying you believe that Trump is producing an economic revolution? And that you believe this revolution he is hatching is a beneficial thing f...
Something to consider: Economists have pointed out that it isnt tariffs per se that are so damaging to markets and businesses. Tariffs have not histor...
And yesterday he told Trump to given clear objectives to investors about his ultimate intentions for the new tariffs or stock markets will keep spiral...
That’s exactly what I and many economists who know Trump’s advisors are suggesting. There are only a couple of issues Trump is interested in, and the ...
Do you believe that Victor Orban is a dictator? How about Putin? If so, tell me in detail what qualifies these men as autocratic rulers? What strategi...
Are you suggesting he’s playing 5-dimensional chess?(*facepalm*). The policy coming out of the White House is not the product of tightly coordinated s...
Isnt the fear at the moment that the markets are headed for a liquidity crisis, which happened during the 2008 financial crisis? In such a crisis, pan...
When I read this post, my first thought was not, ‘Gee, what kind of violently disturbed person would seriously consider assassinating a political lead...
That’s not party loyalty. The Republican party which existed for decades was destroyed by the MAGA populist movement, and many of its brightest lights...
Big time stupid ( or as Paul Krugman calls him, ‘a feces-flinging chaos monkey’). And big-time dangerous. How did it come to this? Lots of people left...
Based on his first term , voters learned to take what Trump said ‘seriously but not literally’. Whatever he had been babbling about for 40 years conce...
During the Cultural Revolution, Mao banished intellectuals to the countryside and decimated academic institutions, so that there would be no smart peo...
Neither are cuts spending on research and innovation in medicine, AI, energy and all the other things that China is pulling farther and farther ahead ...
My point is that if I own a corporation in the U.S. and I am interested in expanding, I would consider my best strategy to be to sit on my hands and w...
Natural disasters and cyclical recessions are one thing, but businesses don’t expect Black Swan events to be caused by the policy whims of a dictator,...
It’s not just fear. It’s impossible for a company to invest in expansion if there isn’t predictability over a 5 year horizon, which is how long it tak...
The article you linked to is called ‘sane-washing’, trying to to turn an utterly incoherent attempt to rationalize Trump’s logic-free actions into a c...
I have been obsessively reading everything I can get my hands on by economists, both liberal and conservative. None of them are foolish enough to ‘dec...
Yesterday was the beginning of the end for Trump. His displaying of that ridiculous chatgpt-generated chart in the Rose Garden was the moment he jumpe...
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