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>:O The funny thing about Musk is that he is literarily a textbook example of a Stoic, but it seems he hasn't even heard about them.
February 06, 2018 at 10:22
I remember reading this post like 1-2 years ago or something, and I re-read it. To be entirely honest, your writing on many issues is interesting and ...
February 06, 2018 at 10:16
Sure. Is Erich serious?
February 06, 2018 at 09:53
https://preview.ibb.co/evz2Dx/trump.png I mean, Who needs a personality? :P
February 06, 2018 at 09:39
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/812KZov2rJL._SY679_.jpg Here's the Blue Yeti! Does he meet your expectations? :D
February 06, 2018 at 09:32
Why, do you want some too? :D I'm the type of person who has always known what they wanted, but I wouldn't say that's super empowering in and of itsel...
February 06, 2018 at 09:31
Sure, but those earnings are reversed in third-world countries usually, where good IT developers earn more than lawyers on average (again, not more th...
February 06, 2018 at 09:27
No, they don't make more money in all societies (at least not on average - top lawyers do generally make more than top people in IT pretty much everyw...
February 06, 2018 at 09:11
Do you want Blue Yeti? Nice, big, blue and furry!
February 06, 2018 at 09:08
How well you're seen by others. For example, the profession of lawyer is typically well-regarded - so even if a lawyer makes less money than someone w...
February 06, 2018 at 09:07
I've said 6-7K sometime before Christmas, but purely on a technical, non-fundamental kind of analysis. My guess would be these guys also use a technic...
February 06, 2018 at 09:06
Money is important, but it's not the only consideration. Social status is, arguably, more important than money for most.
February 06, 2018 at 09:04
No, I wasn't wrong. We still use Newton's equations, and not Einstein's when we build homes. It works. As for saying that nature remains unchanged - h...
February 05, 2018 at 21:30
That's why I said the above. But whether it's 200, 300 or 400 - same thing really, I mean Trump used to say that people were doing business with stick...
February 05, 2018 at 21:18
Yeah, because, you know, we haven't been measuring the acceleration of gravity in any thorough manner before that (for example). Maybe I should've sai...
February 05, 2018 at 21:15
Ok, let me switch gears then. What the future will be cannot be derived from experience - but can a rational way to behave (and we're always behaving ...
February 05, 2018 at 21:13
Well, what can I say, I am an extravagant man >:O Though isn't it clear that we need some first-principles, which cannot be derived via argumentation,...
February 05, 2018 at 21:04
Like take an American with a high-school education - do you imagine they'll go to sweeping the streets? :s Suppose that the pay to be - say - a store ...
February 05, 2018 at 21:01
Last I heard, Zuckerberg's salary as Facebook's CEO was $1 :P No, I just pointed out that being a good wealth-producer isn't the same as being a good ...
February 05, 2018 at 20:50
Do you consider that one becomes a billionaire by chance? This depends. They do not produce that wealth alone but when put in certain systems that are...
February 05, 2018 at 19:56
Yes, but something is fishy with Hume's argument. When we're dealing with logic, we have to establish what things we know with the greatest certainty ...
February 05, 2018 at 19:50
No, I don't, but if I want to build a house, I will still rely on Newton's equations, GTR or not. That Newton's equations have been superceded by GTR ...
February 05, 2018 at 19:14
Right, I already know your position on this, so please spare me the retelling. I'm not interested to discuss the metaphysics of it, my interest is tha...
February 05, 2018 at 18:45
I'm not sure if time had a beginning. No, I can't show that they haven't changed "since the beginning of time", but I can show, for example, that Newt...
February 05, 2018 at 18:30
The evidence is my past experience. My past experience has proven, that in certain circumstances (ex. the laws of nature) the future is like the past....
February 05, 2018 at 17:32
So, how else does the question make sense in the absence of that presupposition? Fair enough, I did get that impression from part of your post.
February 05, 2018 at 17:24
Not a fair comparison. ~1700 or so, not 500. And those are only official numbers - I have no doubt that there may be a lot of other very rich people w...
February 05, 2018 at 10:18
But by the way, having evidence that the future is likely to be similar to the present neither requires knowledge of the future nor the necessity that...
February 05, 2018 at 10:17
I am Nostradamus, what are you talking about? :-!
February 05, 2018 at 10:14
Right. So the claim that the future is like the past is justified by evidence, not by a valid argument from accepted premises. It forms one of those f...
February 05, 2018 at 10:08
Can you explain how the position I've outlined is determinism? Also please clarify what you mean by determinism. This makes no sense. The claim is tha...
February 05, 2018 at 10:03
The Dalai Lama is one of the biggest hypocrites on the face of the planet... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoaoQPbTC6g https://www.youtube.com/watch...
February 05, 2018 at 09:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYEOSCIOnrs
February 05, 2018 at 09:35
Yeah, I hadn't got that far into the thread yet - my comment was more of a joke of Wayfarer accusing me of being authoritarian in the past anyways.
February 05, 2018 at 09:33
>:O >:O >:O - authoritarian much?
February 05, 2018 at 09:29
I don't think either of the questions make sense to me. On the one hand, "what are they ultimately composed of" makes no sense because I don't see wha...
February 05, 2018 at 09:16
Right... :-}
February 05, 2018 at 09:09
And your username and password Sir? >:O The link you provided seems to be to the equivalent of your content management system, not to your blog, and i...
February 05, 2018 at 09:07
Sir, why are you such a gangster? How do you think this contributes to better outcomes? How would you imagine this goes in a practical situation? I im...
February 04, 2018 at 21:05
I'm busy planting a cabbage, I'll need to get back to this thread when I finish :D (like Voltaire) What does it mean "why" objects are? Level one is g...
February 04, 2018 at 21:00
As was Platonism for that matter, in fact, more so in the case of Platonism. What's the significant difference between this question and mine?
February 04, 2018 at 20:56
You are such a sophist, you should get a prize for it, you know? It will be called Master Cum Laude of the Science of Eristic. (For the mods, don't th...
February 04, 2018 at 20:43
And yet, you told me that lack of education is what keeps some from being rich? Yes, the political aspect is definitely true. Class connections? Not r...
February 04, 2018 at 18:48
Hmm, but I disagree with your basic premise that identity is fragmentation... and probably so would Peterson. I think that quite the contrary, a stron...
February 04, 2018 at 16:18
Common BC, we both know that those aren't the skills needed to become a billionaire. We both know that most often people become billionaires by starti...
February 04, 2018 at 16:03
Ummm like when money is falling from the sky on top of you? :-O (just joking LOL >:O )
February 04, 2018 at 15:52
Actually, I'm not going to let you go on this one. What is this below? Is that not a distinction? Next time, you should put your glasses on, and perha...
February 04, 2018 at 15:51
Oh really? >:O Is that it, dishonesty is insanity, and it rocked your world? Is that why when I told you that one of Peterson's core teachings is the ...
February 04, 2018 at 13:55
Like, you know, when you start swearing and physically threatening me... >:O just joking, no. I am always in trouble though >:O . See, it depends on w...
February 04, 2018 at 10:55
Yes, I think unfortunately that would be the case, because the 99% are barbarians. http://blakemasters.com/post/24578683805/peter-thiels-cs183-startup...
February 04, 2018 at 10:35