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There are no whinging "pessimists" in foxholes. :death: :flower:

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And when you lack a non-trivial counterargument, more useless whinging. :yawn:

Again, you've lost me.

I think "the best = the least worst". How could it not? :yawn:

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: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...

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No. :clap: :party:

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...

I don't see your point. You've lost me.

Serial killing is not "misuse of high IQ"; that's psychpathy (or antisocial sociopathy).

Remember: the Marxists drove the Bakuninists out of the First International. Marxism =/= communism. Communism =/= socialism. Socialism =/= Marxism. Po...

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 ...

:cool: https://youtu.be/9jBnaVJPTAI Oh, I almost forgot ... https://youtu.be/waxI8k0Hgk0

:clap: :100: :fire: Fucking brilliantly succinct and crystal-clear. Thank you for the seminar!

FUCK Individual-1 & the MAGA mob ... re: Letitia James & Fani Willis :fire: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uuqeSu8_BjY ... and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

https://youtu.be/pWwaMcj5gqQ 'Bridge Over Troubled Water" (5:31) Aretha's Greatest Hits, 1971 writer Paul Simon, 1970^^ performer Aretha Franklin http...

As long we h. sapiens, like every other metabolically complex organism, must live by consuming corpses, "ahisma" will remain just another mirage in th...

Use theorems, proofs and axiomatic systems (i.e. indefeasible reasoning).

"Suffering" is not an intentional agent so it cannot have a "purpose". The facticity of suffering is gratuitious insofar as suffering happens whenever...

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...

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And this panglossian scenario has to do with "capitalism" or economic systems how?

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Reread what I actually wrote. I did not say "society will slowly euthnaize itself" and I did not forecast about a "scarcity of resources".

My view is a forecast and not a prediction. In the case of the latter, though, I consider it optimistic.

I don't know; some (too many) individuals are just congenitally miserable. I also don't think much of Maslow's conjecture.

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I suspect a future post-scarcity civilization will be maximally depopulated in comparison to this current pro-scarcity civilization. Perhaps several m...

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Consider: After Capitalism by David Schweickart (re: economy democracy). No doubt, the 'automated future' you mention is trending, so to speak, but it...

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...

Zapffe & Camus call this "absurd". And Buddhists' say "ignorance" of anicca, etc aka "karma". Spinoza refers to it as an "inadequate idea". Etc.

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:100: Re: Calling out one of TPF's Quantum Woo Crew ... :clap: :up:

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I was referring to historical capitalism and not Randian-fantasy capitalism. :roll: :up:

"Free" of what? "Free" for whom? Anthropogenic climate change (at least) since the mid-1800s demonstrates one catastrophic way the "market economy" ha...

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 ...

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For my filthy lucre, "capitalism", in sum, is a global, commodifying, market system institutionalized for maximizing shareholder returns (i.e. private...

To do so I think one must suffer, lose, fail ... reflectively. NB: Such as cultivating habits of courage ... of learning ... of ecstasy ...

For too many, admitting you are wrong is even more (emotionally/cognitively) difficult than making the effort to discern / acknowledge what is and is ...

"It's morally repugnant! ... Liz Truss' government doesn't care ... Help the rich! Fuck the poor!" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w-V5FVludFk

Overpopulation = overconsumption = overproduction of waste / pollution (where "over" meeans unsustainable). Follow me down the rabbit hole, Alice. :ma...

:100: :up: ... aka "illusions of knowledge" (i.e. not knowing that / what we do not know).

Just another maga-is-fucked Monday in Murica :clap: :sweat: https://youtu.be/n9adLsXTpZQ @"NOS4A2"