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That option is “no”.

Sorry it's taken to long to get back to this, besides my birthday Saturday my Sunday got really unexpectedly busy. Intentions, as I mean them, are "se...

I've self-published on the internet already (link in my user profile), but I've yet to confirm that a single person has even read the entire thing, so...

If you were to star-lift a star, where would you put all the removed matter? Maybe... just dump it all in big lumps in orbit close to the star? Like a...

Nietzsche saw nihilism as something to be overcome: that people would rightly reject religious doctrine and traditional beliefs and values, and having...

:clap: :point: :100: :up: In the broader sense of “true” instead of which I’m using the word “correct” for disambiguity (from senses of “truth” that i...

I’m not a mod, and I’m not even sure I’m very involved here compared to others. I haven’t even been here a year so far. I’m just some isolated guy who...

accidental post, please ignore

I am, and thanks. Impressions generally imply expressions, but not vice versa. You can merely express your opinions without necessarily impressing the...

I don't necessarily have to lose a dollar for you to gain a dollar, but it is still possible that you can gain a dollar at my expense. And if everythi...

It could be to the resultant child's benefit, if that child's life is on the whole more enjoyment than suffering, or brings about more enjoyment than ...

The classic example of a supererogatory good is donating to charity. On most accounts, it is not morally obligatory to do so, it’s not wrong to refrai...

Balances, equalities, symmetries, are some of the most fundamental parts of modern theories of physics. Symmetries are identical to conserved quantiti...

As I wrote in a paper a decade and a half ago, “All is but space, and none of it empty.”

If the idea you’re talking about is just non-coercive trade, that already has a name: a free market. Which isn’t the same thing as capitalism. If you’...

Nope, Higgs at least has a nonzero value everywhere.

There’s a difference between obligatory and supererogatory goods. It can be a good thing to bring people into existence, without it being obligatory, ...

There are descriptive as well as prescriptive rules, such as the laws of nature.

Not even that one?

Bear in mind that this phenomenon only works when people are at least slightly more likes to be right than wrong. If the opposite is true, then bigger...

Keep in mind that if you do want to read the original texts, a lot of the older philosophers can be read for free online, so no need to buy books of t...

Possibly you are thinking of rule utilitarianism? Though that doesn’t seem a perfect fit. In any case, your approach to morality sounds a lot like min...

The key philosophers I’d recommend reading about to get a kind of big picture overview of the whole of philosophy and its history would be Socrates, A...

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It'd be true even if I wasn't. Statism-libertarianism and capitalism-socialism are nominally orthogonal axes, and if they do correlate, it's along the...

It probably won't bring you more money, but you could combine creative writing with philosophy and write a kind of philosophical "dialogue" like the a...

Who said anything about the state? Socialism isn't all state socialism.

Recently (past week or two?) they've been doing this to me and 180 Proof in at least two or three threads here. I haven't had any noted problem with t...

Thank you! And no worries at all about delay. Finding time to do anything on my own (i.e. not hanging out with gf who is locked down with me) is incre...

I think you misread: I didn't mean "capital distribution" as in the act of distributing capital, but rather the state of affairs regarding who has wha...

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Pointing out someone else’s poor discourse is not an ad hominem. Why do I even bother replying, everyone else can see how pointless this is and I’m su...

If you get rid of the consideration of capital, then you’re not even talking about capitalism anymore, but (probably) just about a free market, which ...

No, and as I already said, it’s arguing in bad faith to even suggest that you might. That’s not how reasoned discourse works, and your petty schoolyar...

The thing is, other than gods not existing, it seems no less absurd to me than your claims about what is “the phenomena underlying our morality”. It’s...

I shut down an attention-sucking tangent. Now this is becoming another and I would like to shut it down so that more productive conversation can take ...

You seem to be reading way more into what I'm talking about than I am trying to say. The fundamental elements of my ontology are interactions. For cla...

Not the way I do it. I’m vehemently against supposing that there are additional mental properties in addition to physical properties. As I construct i...

I'm actually very opposed to the Cartesian framing. There is no cognitans or extensa anywhere in my res. I support a panpsychist physicalism, like Gal...

I think he's implying that God is the necessary ground of all existence, so since he knows that he himself exists, that is proof of God's existence.

This seems to be getting at the core of the contention here. What would it mean for gods to be the phenomena underlying our morality? Would it be enou...

I'm very curious about that general American survey because I would think that every religious person would believe in objective moral truth, and the ...

Thanks! I'm looking forward to this conversation too (and enjoying it so far already). Natural language is inherently sloppy, and I don't set out to a...

My position is that the fundamentals can self-exist, because we necessarily have no way of knowing whether the mathematical structure that is identica...

The short answer is that numbers aren't the basic elements of math; sets are. Numbers are made of them, as are all other mathematical objects. For the...

Not just that. Anyone who buys buildings and equipment and then pays other people to operate them is letting others use their capital (the stuff) in e...

So if gods actually existed, would divine command theory be a fine meta-ethics, and the Euthyphro a bad argument, because “is what the gods command ac...

What I said is an elaboration of the mechanisms behind what Kaarlo said. “Entrepreneurs” in our capitalist world are more often than not just people w...

It’s a discursively thing at issue here, not a strictly logical one. If one were to propose to the pre-Copernican world something that takes for grant...

Social-vs-antisocial is a first-order difference (“what should we do?”). Fundamentalism-vs-science-vs-relativism is a second-order difference (“how do...