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:up: :100: Thank you.
March 30, 2021 at 09:00
So there must be more people maintaining farm equipment today than there used to be people farming then, no?
March 30, 2021 at 02:31
You can have a mix of determinism and randomness, sure, not just 100% of one or 100% of the other. But still the only thing you've changed about the f...
March 30, 2021 at 01:43
The problem is that we have no way of judging who on the ship is an able helmsman independent of the opinions of those on the ship, who all think them...
March 29, 2021 at 23:49
:up: A general tactic I like using in philosophy is recognizing positions that claim to be competing answers to the same question to instead be answer...
March 29, 2021 at 23:24
I thought it was very cool when the HBO show "Westworld" incorporated the concept of a bicameral mind into their depiction of artificial intelligence ...
March 29, 2021 at 08:53
Then that is a job that still calls for human labor -- the emotional labor of being a friendly person to talk to, even if the actual drink-making part...
March 29, 2021 at 08:42
Just because machines do the labor doesn't mean that labor isn't the source of wealth.
March 29, 2021 at 05:27
Transhumanism is a specific technological means, and so is beyond the scope of philosophy, but it sounds like the people behind that site generally ha...
March 29, 2021 at 05:25
:100: :up:
March 29, 2021 at 00:08
That would be what I called 'metaphysical will' above, and gave arguments for why that is not a useful sense of the word "will"; but also, in practice...
March 29, 2021 at 00:07
What is the essence of philosophy? A quick and general answer would be that philosophy is about the fundamental topics that lie at the core of all oth...
March 28, 2021 at 20:45
This reminds me of my thoughts on beauty qua elegance, which is to say, the intersection of a phenomenon being interestingly complex, but also compreh...
March 28, 2021 at 20:24
That question doesn't make any sense. How do my higher priorities -- things like keeping myself alive -- "match how things really are"? What does that...
March 28, 2021 at 19:44
Y'know, it has often seemed to me that far too many people show too much disdain for truth, but it's rare that any of them straight up admit it like t...
March 28, 2021 at 19:44
...so that their models would remain accurate in light of new information? Between this and your say similar question in that atheists thread, you com...
March 28, 2021 at 19:20
I always come to doctors (and most any kind of expert) with all the information I can and what analysis I’ve done of it myself and where I got stuck t...
March 28, 2021 at 19:17
Good observation! I honestly never noticed that parallel.
March 28, 2021 at 19:13
No worries, I'm just happy that anyone is engaging with my ideas at all! I just thought maybe I wasn't clear what those ideas were. I agree with you t...
March 28, 2021 at 19:09
“Only things that are true” doesn’t mean “all the things that are true”... but yeah, knowing all the things would be cool too, though of course I have...
March 28, 2021 at 19:09
I'm not arguing against institutes of justice, if that's what you're talking about. I'm not saying that we should just "let our free will judge what i...
March 28, 2021 at 09:38
On Intentions None of this is yet sufficient to call something free will in our ordinary sense of the word. For that, we need all of the above plus al...
March 28, 2021 at 09:24
On Appetites and Desires https://geekofalltrades.org/codex/images/will-functions.png As with consciousness, the first of these important functions, wh...
March 28, 2021 at 09:19
On Psychological Will The pragmatically useful sense of "free will" is, I hold, a functional one, just like the pragmatically useful sense of "conscio...
March 28, 2021 at 09:15
Pan-Libertarianism That latter position is what I have dubbed pan-libertarianism: the view that everything at least has something prototypical of meta...
March 28, 2021 at 09:13
Against Emergent Libertarianism I am also against what I dubbed above emergent libertarianism, as a part of my general position against (strong) emerg...
March 28, 2021 at 09:08
Against Hard Incompatibilism I am against hard incompatibilism, strictly speaking, though I am very sympathetic to the motivations for it. The incompa...
March 28, 2021 at 09:06
On Metaphysical Will Metaphysical will is largely defined by its independence from the functional process of deliberation, in much the same way that p...
March 28, 2021 at 09:03
"It may be hopeless, but try anyway." Also, can I leave a book? Because I wrote like 80,000 words elaborating on that principle already.
March 28, 2021 at 08:41
Rarely in my experience. :up: :clap: :100:
March 28, 2021 at 02:53
Sure, and that all sounds perfectly consistent with critical rationalism. We can’t know for sure what patterns phenomena in the universe follow. But w...
March 28, 2021 at 01:31
I think more in terms of the opposite assumption being “pragmatically falsified”, in that it’s a self-defeating assumption, leaving only something wit...
March 27, 2021 at 23:08
There were philosophy discussion clubs for philosophy students at colleges, but nothing for mature adults that I’m aware of. Looking for something lik...
March 27, 2021 at 23:04
Not really, and probably even less than England. America is absurdly anti-intellectual in general.
March 27, 2021 at 21:10
We’re discussing this in another thread right now: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/10539/at-long-last-my-actual-arguments-for-hedonic-morali...
March 27, 2021 at 21:07
Apparently they issue badges:
March 27, 2021 at 20:13
No? We can be certain that a particular combinations of beliefs is false, if they lead to contradiction. We can’t ever be certain that any particular ...
March 27, 2021 at 18:56
So far as I can tell, which is the most certain anyone can ever be about anything.
March 27, 2021 at 18:52
I’m always trying to find experts to whom I can defer because I really want to not be the ultimate authority on things since I know how little I know,...
March 27, 2021 at 18:48
The critical rationalist can’t ever hope to find certain knowledge about what is true, sure; but we can accumulate more and more knowledge about what ...
March 27, 2021 at 17:20
For the sake of that illustration I take it for granted, but that is just an illustration. Whenever it is discovered that a person with such and such ...
March 27, 2021 at 17:09
Same reason I want to decide the truth of any other claim: I want to believe only things that are true, and avoid believing things that are untrue.
March 27, 2021 at 17:02
Science escapes the trilemma because it rejects the justificationism that all of its horns rest upon in favor of critical rationalism. Critical ration...
March 27, 2021 at 09:22
You're welcome, but please note that those are my personal technical uses of those terms, that I do think track generally with common usage, but you p...
March 27, 2021 at 09:12
It's fine with me if that's how you want to use the word "God", but in doing so you are conceding that he does not have the omni-properties often attr...
March 27, 2021 at 09:04
It would be immoral to force them (to do something they don't enjoy, not just to stop doing something that makes others suffer), sure, but definitely ...
March 27, 2021 at 04:16
And God has no power to stop people from doing these things? Or doesn't know he needs to? Or he just doesn't bother? Which is it? NB that "stopping th...
March 27, 2021 at 04:01
They can and should, we just have to find some alternate means to their happiness. There’s never only one route to happiness. Just because X makes you...
March 27, 2021 at 03:02
This is the point of distinguishing between appetites and desires: an appetite is not aimed for any specific state of affairs like a desire is, it’s j...
March 27, 2021 at 02:50
So the problem is that we are mistaken when we say that child sex slavery is bad, and from God’s perspective that’ must be perfectly fine, since he cl...
March 27, 2021 at 02:44