Why do you think abusing the homeless is born out of the homeless causing them to feel shame? I think it something else altogether. It seems to me tha...
Maybe, probably, this isn't exactly what you are looking for, but I think Nietzsche, if you can look past his elitism and self-mythologizing, is techn...
I don't know what's arbitrary about the timescales, you only live like a 100 years or so. It almost seems like the type of being you are shouldn't mat...
Why not something in between the fleeting moment and eternity? That seems to be the timescale that is relevant for us human beings anyway. There's no ...
The fault in your logic is that you didn't show why there can only be meaning if actions have impactfull consequences eternally, or on at least on som...
I think it's both a reliable representation of reality and mostly made up by our minds. The directly imputed sensory data at any given time is clearly...
It's irrelevant to it being good argumentation or to it being automatically rendered irrational as you put it. As to being honest with youself regardi...
Yes, dogmatism sounds better, and probably more recognisable as a concept than fideism. And yes, fideism has religious connotations, as it is tied to ...
No, we will never have an interest in say counting the number of straws in a random haystack. We need some motivation for gaining knowledge... and soc...
Hey Pfhorrest, I'll make some comments to your closing statements about fideism. I didn't read it all because I don't have the time right now, so excu...
Yes, it does. I'm trying to figure out why it's not the same in my mind... I guess that a government that has limited legislative power, a small gover...
I agree with everything you said here, though I do wonder how much difference it would make ultimately. Apparently voting for political parties, is mu...
Yeah sure, and the world changes. Maybe with big data and AI, total governement controle would be more feasible now... On the plus side, the sample-si...
I'm kind of sceptical that this will turn out to be a fruitfull avenue, as so much of battling it out politically ends up being about securing votes, ...
To add something very vague to that... We kind of know that total control like in the communist states of old doesn't work, right? And we kind of also...
Yes, psychology, sociology and ultimately political sciences are still in their infancies, particularly because they are such politicized issues... bu...
Here's one example of a difference in restrictions, in communist Russia the economy was owned and steered by the government for a large part. In the U...
Totally unrestricted probably not, but surely there are differences in how much governments are restricted. That is what the discussion is or should b...
The extreme end example of a small government would be something like Nozick's night watchman state. The thing that defines it, is not the brute amoun...
Sure, no that is not small goverment. What i would say is the most important aspect of the idea of small government, is not the amount of laws or comp...
About moral stuff in the broad sense... as in what is living a good life. So morality not necessarily only about how to behave in relation to other pe...
I voted inequality because in concert with new technologies it threatens to deny large parts of the population a meaningful existence. EDIT: And I wil...
I'm a bit hesitant to reply to this, because you touch on a lot of things, and I'm not sure I can do justice to the all issues being raised. But anywa...
A snide reply doesn't really deserve an answer. But I will say this, Socrates and his followers weren't exactly classical either, they were just wrong...
I don't think they are real in an objective sense, in fact I don't think the word true applies at all to 'necessary truths'. Truth value comes from ve...
Yeah and I'm pretty sure Nietzsche didn't see it that way either. That the empirical world is ever changing, is not a reason to conclude that it is no...
The thing you need to get, I think, is that X=X says something about the language we use to describe the world, and not necessarily about the world it...
Ok fair enough. QM is a bit over my head I'm afraid, and scientists are not sure how to interpret it either at the moment it seems, so I don't have mu...
Ok, I still don't see then how you can end up assigning probabilities to God or Living in a simulation then. You start with zero information... and yo...
Data about the world, or sense-data if you will. In my view no new information can be gained by logic alone, that are just tautologies or repackaging ...
But you cannot even concieve of humans if you have no prior information. And why would any property be more likely if you know nothing about them? "I ...
You do not start from zero information there though, you start from an idea of what humans are, and derive the improbability of such a creature having...
What are you going to base those probabilities on if you have no possible way of veryfying anything about them? If probabilities are based on nothing,...
Not everything can sensibly be assigned probabilities, some things are beyond our ability to verify either way, like say if we are living in a simulat...
I did not misunderstand you I think. The technology could become competitive on it's own… but it's no certainty, I don't think. Either way you cannot ...
Yes it would presumably change in favour of the owners of the robots, who now own everything without conditions. It will allways be a part of the equa...
People care, because if they are valueless in economic terms, the next step is that they will be no factor in political deliberation, or maybe I shoul...
This is a very difficult question, and I'm not sure if I can adequately answer that... But the way I see it, is that we do not start in a vacuum. We g...
No maybe not, maybe that's to strong of a claim. Your could also accept that you have different values, and look for a solution that is a compromise b...
It is still a contradiction, but you can't really say it's because of bad logic or because the premises are not true. Truth doesn't really apply there...
I wouldn't expect Google's algorithm to favour philosophical answers. The word 'solve' is maybe not the best word there, and the question is a bit gen...
Ok fair enough. Looking back at the clip of her speech, I get that some people would want to make fun of her, she does come across as an insufferable ...
Yeah and those economic incentives likely will have to come in the form of taxes, at least in part. That could work, one problem with that route thoug...
I mean the basic science is pretty well established by now, as far as science can be established I guess. The earth is warming faster than anything in...
An honest question for information without any bias eh, you don't see those a lot around here :-). I have no 'smoking gun' evidence of such foul play,...
One of the problems on the policy half of the question is that it's a bureaucratic and political mess to get something done. This isn't even only a pr...
Look, this was not the point of my post, it really doesn't matter all that much to me if she is being 'used' or not. I don't care to split hairs over ...
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