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Hey, a local! I'm next door in Ojai. Just went up to Punch Bowls on Monday morning and saw your alma mater.

Great quote. I often point out in race-and-poverty-related discussions that point about addressing poverty regardless of race being sufficient to coun...

I think “linear” was meant not in opposition to “non-linear” but to “exponential”. Being born to a wealthy family not only gives you a head start, but...

You absolutely can, and the history of philosophy is shaped by people who have. My own philosophy aims to synthesize/hybridize those two current strea...

To my eye the difference between them seems not* one of ignoring vs acknowledging, but of fighting vs giving in. The “earnest” philosopher can acknowl...

This. :100: :clap: I was hoping someone would give a more complete explanation of MWI while I was gone.

I completely agree that sophistry in that sense is a problem, precisely as you have stated. I only disagree that "rhetoric" necessarily refers to that...

The video is a joke response; it's a song called "I'm On A Boat" by The Lonely Island. The rest of my post isn't a joke.

Negligibly close to zero, yes. Odds comparable to a dropped and broken egg un-dropping itself into an intact egg again.

Short answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avaSdC0QOUM Apparently the Chumash of California (my home) may have had prehistoric contact with the Pol...

If people "shrink down to electrons", then they behave exactly like electrons, because now they are electrons. As for what the experience of those ele...

The thing is, the information of the image isn't any kind of special thing above and beyond the arrangement of the photons, so you would need some ord...

Physics freedom is useless to within mental freedom, and harmless with enormous of it (e.g. Stoic or Buddhist temperament).

Short answer is that that kind of shrinking is impossible by the same laws of physics you’re wondering about.

Not by itself but the solution involves it.

I think patterns are one of the most important ontological concepts, and most of the rest of ontology is just about structuring patterns in our experi...

The pejorative sense of “sophistry” that I’m aware of, the one associated with a negative sense of “rhetoric” (which I wasn’t intending to use, but @"...

I see that on the desktop, but on the phone there is no such thing on the left.

Looking at this post from the front page, I don’t see any way to tel that it is in the feedback forum. I’ve wondered before myself if there’s some way...

Nope, Hawking fixed that with his eponymous radiation.

While information can’t be created or destroyed, like energy it can be rendered inaccessible, through the exact same process: the second law of thermo...

I was thinking again about Syamsu’s system of philosophy as I understand it, and it occurred to me that if “mind”, “will”, and “god” are all interpret...

A purpose is whatever something is good for, regardless of whether it was created intentionally to serve that good.

In historical and non-American contemporary usage “liberal” means basically the same thing as the contemporary American usage of “libertarian”, and ev...

I don’t mean to suggest we turn away from “cosmic enigmas”, just that we don’t mistake our own confusion for those profound depths in need of plunging...

Misery is traditional. Historically, almost everyone is always miserable. Except for the tiny ruling class, who are the ones that conservatism invaria...

It's not an organization. That's the point. You may as well talk about "that notorious hacker Anonymous".

Anyone can call themselves "antifa". It's not an organized group with a membership roster. It's just a word that means "anti-fascist". If someone who ...

Now that is the kind of violence that is warranted. What kind of government would ban anti-fascists? Maybe, I dunno, the kind that starts with an F...

Who are you addressing? All I have to lose is this trailer. Which is "everything" to me, having spent 20 years clawing my way up to it from the tool s...

I agree with all of that. That's basically what I've been trying to say to you all day. Yes, all of that is not fair or sensible, I'm glad you agree. ...

Because "overreaction" doesn't mean "worse than what it's a reaction to". Maybe it's been a miscommunication (like this "overreaction" confusion you a...

Thanks for trying to rephrase, but that sounds to my ear like it still means the same thing. You seem to use "overreaction" to mean "reaction worse th...

You keep repeating this "unjustified = worse" things despite repeated, IMO very clear, disambiguation of them. In fact the very next sentence after th...

Justice is a topic that applies to the reactions as much as anything else. Reactions can be just or unjust. You mentioned justification. Justice and j...

The point of the post you're responding to is to argue that "unjustified" doesn't equal "worse that the original crime". (To be clear, I don't think t...

You are a mod, feel free to split this conversation about conversations about tragedies into a different thread if you want to keep it out of this one...

I can only speak for myself, but I personally don't have anything more to say about that than has already been said well by lots of other people here,...

I don't think that's true at all. That kind of thinking implies "an eye for eye" sense of justice: that any reaction is justified up to the level of h...

Misosophy and phobosophy, though both are probably coined by analogy with philosophy. Possibly sciosophy, which seems to mean "shadow knowledge", not ...

I'm a socialist/anarchist, as you've hopefully noted, and, just speaking for myself, the only reason I've commented here at all, and only on the topic...

I don’t want to position myself on the side of people who care more about the riots than the systemic injustices the riots are about, but since this i...

This is the important point. Consider also “philanthropy”, which is “love of man”, not “man(liness?) of love”. Or “philately”, which is “love of stamp...

Download link for Firefox is broken now, got a newer one?

Do you perchance know where it is from / the exact quote?

I want to open by saying that my biggest concern in this story in Minneapolis is the murderous police, not the riots, but I don’t have anything novel ...

No, but apparently Levinas thinks it should mean that. (Funny enough, I just discovered him tonight when trying to search for anything on the pejorati...

I do think that that is the direction that philosophy needs to head, getting back on the topic of progress. There some old aphorism I heard once in my...

I'm pretty anti-fond of Nietzsche, especially of his style, so I'm not surprised to see that this anti-totalizing personality that I find off-putting ...

Perfection literally means completeness. Something is perfect when there is nothing missing from it. That of course depends on some concept of what a ...