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I agree that more collectivist approaches made a difference, but I think the list you made is too simplistic. China bungled in the very beginning but ...
May 02, 2021 at 05:54
Individualism here in the Anglo-American world, meaning classical liberalism & Right-Libertarianism, is B.S. and a pathology that destroys everything....
May 01, 2021 at 03:10
86 - Asato Asato Reflections on Socialism in the Twenty-First Century - Claes Brundenius
April 29, 2021 at 07:48
Well I get your impression, but there's garbage all across these fields. Like with economics, you have a handful of scholars who shift through the pil...
April 29, 2021 at 05:38
Well every scholarly field related to politics that I know that uses a rigorous interdisciplinary approach integrates the field of psychology (social ...
April 29, 2021 at 02:34
What you're reacting to seems more like armchair guessing of people's motives (yeah that is B.S.) than the field called political psychology. My frien...
April 28, 2021 at 21:42
In what sense, for an example, would you dismiss Mencius, Xunzi, and Mozi as not doing philosophy? A lot of the issues they argued about would be reco...
April 24, 2021 at 02:39
I think death is bad because it restricts our freedom to pursue our goals and interests. Perhaps we would have wanted to live more decades enjoying ti...
April 16, 2021 at 03:05
I thought Dennett & Pigliucci both had a pretty good response to Chomsky's mysterian argument here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tH3AnYyAI8&t=5010...
April 13, 2021 at 22:00
Looking at the exchange, I am quite confused at what the thread is about. Are you posing skepticism of resolution of philosophical quandaries (progres...
April 13, 2021 at 21:55
I'm more simple, I just want to go to bed after having a fun day and the next morning just happens to be the time I no longer wake up.
April 06, 2021 at 09:46
Lately I've gotten into discussion with some people and realized I have been diagnosed and medicated for bipolar disorder wrongly for years. I'm almos...
April 06, 2021 at 09:39
I didn't mean to suggest the topic was too broad, but rather that the starting point of examination was to focus on which features of the concept are ...
March 31, 2021 at 18:57
Yeah Bartricks' definition is technically correct, but for the compatibilist accounts proposed by Dennett and cogni sci folks, they are a kind of "lim...
March 31, 2021 at 05:58
What bothers me about many popular discussions of the topic is people start off assuming it as a given what the controversy is about and whether it's ...
March 31, 2021 at 03:03
Questions like why something such as X exists seem reasonable based on phenomenon we observe around us. Like we know from experience that it makes sen...
March 23, 2021 at 23:53
Apologies for leading the thread on a tangent, I’ve become enraged due to the recent anti-Asian shootings. Like the other comments, I generally encour...
March 18, 2021 at 01:20
Why are you making it about Biden in general? I’m talking about this area where he’s causing harm and criticizing it.
March 18, 2021 at 00:32
It was only last year when Biden made a jingoistic advertisement about “the Chinese” when saber rattling about competition with China. https://www.bus...
March 18, 2021 at 00:22
FBI directors are allowed to be fired despite tenure. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2020/12/02/report-biden-will-keep-chris-wray-as-fbi-direct...
March 18, 2021 at 00:19
I mentioned maintaining the racist FBI director and then provided sources. If you think it’s unconvincing, then say so. “I’m not obligated to” to my r...
March 18, 2021 at 00:04
I gave an argument with an example. If you’re not going to dispute it, you’re talking to yourself. That’ll be all.
March 17, 2021 at 23:54
You didn't address the example I mentioned, the McCarthyist targeting of Chinese students. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-13/the-u-s-...
March 17, 2021 at 23:42
My memory is that all the candidates dropped out and endorsed Biden after he did very well in West Virginia, and then support peaked with the media co...
March 17, 2021 at 22:27
Asian women have especially been targeted because of the way they've been fetishized in American imagination. It's a travesty of multiple perversions....
March 17, 2021 at 22:21
I admit I have my own aesthetic preferences in terms of appearance between races when it comes to a sexual partner. I don't think that arriving at a p...
March 08, 2021 at 08:01
Well your post is how much more you can "get out of something" if you make the effort to try to appreciate it right? I probably can get more out a par...
March 08, 2021 at 07:46
I get what you're saying, but I don't know dude. I've had more pleasant memories enjoying a great cheap food cart repeatedly over that one fancy resta...
March 08, 2021 at 07:29
I underemphasized it in my previous comment, but I agree we should co-opt the message, and I don't care about purity. But this to me seems more like a...
February 01, 2021 at 22:46
The whole incident has been a net negative for GameStop workers. “...The GameStop workers I spoke to described a company that offers little support to...
February 01, 2021 at 10:40
BlackRock made billions off the GameStop Ordeal, Wall Street as a whole isn't threatened. Rich people win and lose all the time in the market, a parti...
February 01, 2021 at 10:39
That guy was a full on Fascist.
January 16, 2021 at 17:38
Sorry I erased my comment cause I didn't want to get into this discussion but you already saw it. I largely agree with you that the prevalence of bad ...
January 15, 2021 at 13:32
yawn
January 15, 2021 at 04:01
I answered Maximal to all of them, because that's what I am considered to the rest of the spectrum. Among those on the furthest left, there's another ...
January 09, 2021 at 11:24
Scrolling down the first page of threads, they are mostly philosophy threads with a couple of big political threads. A number of active members are pr...
January 09, 2021 at 01:56
This is such a laughably uncharitable take of what I was trying to get at. I’m not going to engage with those having a conversation only to themselves...
December 08, 2020 at 17:25
What you're missing is that what you call well-established laws are approximations to deeper laws. It's both true that we can still use Newtonian phys...
December 08, 2020 at 10:50
I'm inclined to agree on stressing the structural issues more. But if we're interested in getting the full picture, there's a causal feedback loop to ...
December 07, 2020 at 08:30
There is much to suggest that the psychology of rich people are different: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/does_wealth_reduce_compassion...
December 07, 2020 at 06:46
It's also a psychological issue. Despite diminishing marginal utility, why do billionaires spend so much of their time on work? Yes, they may not work...
December 07, 2020 at 06:26
That's the U.S, where yes its economy is designed to do that it that way, but it isn’t necessary. Japan did it through its Ministry of International T...
December 05, 2020 at 02:28
Check these out: The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide - Richard Conniff Giants: The Global Power Elite - Peter Phillips The 1st book is a co...
December 04, 2020 at 04:10
That's a mathematical equivalency to other physical attributes rather than a metaphysical description (the difference is we have a way to explain mass...
December 04, 2020 at 01:29
There’s a point to doing science with its corresponding philosophical rumination (running into either of the 3 results I mentioned) Empty label switch...
November 22, 2020 at 21:10
So it’s just word play that brings comfort by the appearance of internal coherency, it doesn’t explain anything or help us grapple with the real world...
November 22, 2020 at 20:29
So now you’re going in circles and that we need panpsychism, and your previous comment was a total deflection. That was the target of my last comment....
November 22, 2020 at 19:30
If you don’t need it, if it doesn’t explain anything, then I don’t know why you’re wasting your time with it. Just put a question mark to it. Frankly ...
November 22, 2020 at 16:24
If you think there’s no details that you can empirically confirm I’m conscious and tease out the manner in which I am so, and it’s just an unfounded i...
November 22, 2020 at 16:10
“Because for the longest time we thought that by coming up with the right physics or chemistry or biology we could find the "equation for consciousnes...
November 22, 2020 at 14:12