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In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
There are no whinging "pessimists" in foxholes. :death: :flower:
October 05, 2022 at 06:38
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
:100: :up:
October 05, 2022 at 04:22
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
And when you lack a non-trivial counterargument, more useless whinging. :yawn:
October 04, 2022 at 19:50
In: Antinatalist Trolleys: An Argument for Antinatalism  — view comment
Again, you've lost me.
October 04, 2022 at 19:41
In: Antinatalist Trolleys: An Argument for Antinatalism  — view comment
I think "the best = the least worst". How could it not? :yawn:
October 04, 2022 at 10:46
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
:sweat:
October 04, 2022 at 10:43
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
:roll: We do not even "understand" how we move our fingers and toes let alone what our brains are doing moment to moment or even why pessimists bother...
October 04, 2022 at 02:48
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
Whoops. :smirk:
October 04, 2022 at 02:33
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
No. :clap: :party:
October 04, 2022 at 02:26
In: What is Capitalism?  — view comment
No man-made change is inevitable, especially to the degree it adversely affects so many people as the prospect of total automation of production and s...
October 03, 2022 at 18:55
In: Perceptive Inauguration of Stupidity.  — view comment
I don't see your point. You've lost me.
October 03, 2022 at 00:30
In: Perceptive Inauguration of Stupidity.  — view comment
Serial killing is not "misuse of high IQ"; that's psychpathy (or antisocial sociopathy).
October 02, 2022 at 19:58
In: Tyrannical Hijacking of Marx’s Ideology  — view comment
Remember: the Marxists drove the Bakuninists out of the First International. Marxism =/= communism. Communism =/= socialism. Socialism =/= Marxism. Po...
October 02, 2022 at 19:48
In: Perceptive Inauguration of Stupidity.  — view comment
It's entropy – in nature there are more ways to break or misuse things than to make or properly use things. Look at the fossil record: maladaptations ...
October 02, 2022 at 19:30
In: Why are people so afraid to admit they are wrong here?  — view comment
:cool: https://youtu.be/9jBnaVJPTAI Oh, I almost forgot ... https://youtu.be/waxI8k0Hgk0
October 02, 2022 at 18:05
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
:clap: :100: :fire: Fucking brilliantly succinct and crystal-clear. Thank you for the seminar!
October 02, 2022 at 04:51
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
FUCK Individual-1 & the MAGA mob ... re: Letitia James & Fani Willis :fire: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uuqeSu8_BjY ... and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
October 01, 2022 at 23:52
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
https://youtu.be/pWwaMcj5gqQ 'Bridge Over Troubled Water" (5:31) Aretha's Greatest Hits, 1971 writer Paul Simon, 1970^^ performer Aretha Franklin http...
October 01, 2022 at 23:42
In: Is "evolutionary humanism" a contradiction in terms ?  — view comment
As long we h. sapiens, like every other metabolically complex organism, must live by consuming corpses, "ahisma" will remain just another mirage in th...
October 01, 2022 at 20:52
In: The Standard(s) for the Foundation Of Knowledge  — view comment
Use theorems, proofs and axiomatic systems (i.e. indefeasible reasoning).
October 01, 2022 at 08:34
In: The purpose of suffering  — view comment
"Suffering" is not an intentional agent so it cannot have a "purpose". The facticity of suffering is gratuitious insofar as suffering happens whenever...
October 01, 2022 at 05:05
In: What is Capitalism?  — view comment
I gave a reason: A psychological fact. As far as Maslow's conjecture, it's neither an argument nor a scientific model. You're the one "expressing pers...
October 01, 2022 at 02:02
In: What is Capitalism?  — view comment
:up:
September 30, 2022 at 21:14
In: What is Capitalism?  — view comment
And this panglossian scenario has to do with "capitalism" or economic systems how?
September 30, 2022 at 21:01
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
:100: :fire:
September 30, 2022 at 20:58
In: What is Capitalism?  — view comment
Reread what I actually wrote. I did not say "society will slowly euthnaize itself" and I did not forecast about a "scarcity of resources".
September 30, 2022 at 20:50
In: What is Capitalism?  — view comment
My view is a forecast and not a prediction. In the case of the latter, though, I consider it optimistic.
September 30, 2022 at 20:41
In: What is Capitalism?  — view comment
I don't know; some (too many) individuals are just congenitally miserable. I also don't think much of Maslow's conjecture.
September 30, 2022 at 20:37
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
:up: :up:
September 30, 2022 at 20:33
In: What is Capitalism?  — view comment
I suspect a future post-scarcity civilization will be maximally depopulated in comparison to this current pro-scarcity civilization. Perhaps several m...
September 30, 2022 at 20:24
In: Question about Free Will and Predestination  — view comment
:100:
September 30, 2022 at 19:54
In: What is Capitalism?  — view comment
Consider: After Capitalism by David Schweickart (re: economy democracy). No doubt, the 'automated future' you mention is trending, so to speak, but it...
September 30, 2022 at 19:20
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
Certainly not. However, the agora's "minimum requirement" seems to me two-fold: (A) to recognize and acknowledge what one does not know and (B) to giv...
September 30, 2022 at 19:08
In: Could we be living in a simulation?  — view comment
Zapffe & Camus call this "absurd". And Buddhists' say "ignorance" of anicca, etc aka "karma". Spinoza refers to it as an "inadequate idea". Etc.
September 30, 2022 at 18:26
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
:smirk: :up:
September 30, 2022 at 08:57
In: Greatest Power: The State, The Church, or The Corporation?  — view comment
:up:
September 30, 2022 at 07:16
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
:100: Re: Calling out one of TPF's Quantum Woo Crew ... :clap: :up:
September 30, 2022 at 04:03
In: What is Capitalism?  — view comment
:smirk:
September 30, 2022 at 03:53
In: What is Capitalism?  — view comment
I was referring to historical capitalism and not Randian-fantasy capitalism. :roll: :up:
September 29, 2022 at 18:59
In: What is Capitalism?  — view comment
"Free" of what? "Free" for whom? Anthropogenic climate change (at least) since the mid-1800s demonstrates one catastrophic way the "market economy" ha...
September 29, 2022 at 17:16
In: Is "evolutionary humanism" a contradiction in terms ?  — view comment
If by "survivability" what is meant is adaptivity, then, as far as I can tell, this deflation of "truth" is spot on. :up: No doubt god-of-the-gaps ...
September 29, 2022 at 03:59
In: Is Hegel's conception of objectivity functionally impossible?  — view comment
:up:
September 29, 2022 at 03:55
In: What is Capitalism?  — view comment
For my filthy lucre, "capitalism", in sum, is a global, commodifying, market system institutionalized for maximizing shareholder returns (i.e. private...
September 29, 2022 at 03:51
In: All that matters?  — view comment
To do so I think one must suffer, lose, fail ... reflectively. NB: Such as cultivating habits of courage ... of learning ... of ecstasy ...
September 29, 2022 at 03:10
In: Why are people so afraid to admit they are wrong here?  — view comment
For too many, admitting you are wrong is even more (emotionally/cognitively) difficult than making the effort to discern / acknowledge what is and is ...
September 28, 2022 at 19:48
In: Is "evolutionary humanism" a contradiction in terms ?  — view comment
September 28, 2022 at 19:40
In: Liz Truss (All General Truss Discussions Here)  — view comment
"It's morally repugnant! ... Liz Truss' government doesn't care ... Help the rich! Fuck the poor!" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w-V5FVludFk
September 28, 2022 at 18:34
In: What motivates the neo-Luddite worldview?  — view comment
Overpopulation = overconsumption = overproduction of waste / pollution (where "over" meeans unsustainable). Follow me down the rabbit hole, Alice. :ma...
September 28, 2022 at 18:21
In: Logic and Disbelief  — view comment
:100: :up: ... aka "illusions of knowledge" (i.e. not knowing that / what we do not know).
September 27, 2022 at 03:03
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Just another maga-is-fucked Monday in Murica :clap: :sweat: https://youtu.be/n9adLsXTpZQ @"NOS4A2"
September 26, 2022 at 22:03
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