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I guess I should've made more effort to link this to the theme of masculinity in the thread. So when I was talking about "female dignity", I meant the...

I enjoy that scene. Here are altogether too many words about it. The scene is ultimately conservative, except for the lady at the end. What prompts th...

Any thread on masculinity is incomplete without authoritarian jouissance.

@"universeness" @"apokrisis" - 'mon, be civil.

Hey @"Christoff Montnielsensons", welcome to the forum. Writing an OP like that makes your thread very difficult to engage with, please see the site g...

You know of any other authors that combine traditions and sources like Brassier? It's a lot of fun to see the Patricia Churchland next to Meillassoux.

Is it a paradox or is it an inconsistency in what domain expressions quantify over? 1 ) Event X has occurred at time u in Alice's reference frame. 2 )...

Keep it civil you lot. @"Judaka" @"universeness"

@ "T Clark" also works I think. Remove the space between the @ and the first ". @"T Clark"

Same! For clarity, I intended "unfortunately it leads to making clarifying comments like this" to be directed towards the state of this contentious di...

I can understand why you would believe it shows a lack of perspective. If I understand correctly, the very fact that @"Jamal" and I have explained the...

You can go looking! There's lots.

I'd mod @"Hanover"'s remarks differently than @"Andrew4Handel"'s. I advise you go through Andrew4Handel's post history for reference. Andrew4Handel's ...

Been on a nihilism kick recently. Conspiracy Against the Human Race - Thomas Ligotti The Trouble With Being Born - Emil Cioran Nihil Unbound - Ray Bra...

Closing this again.

Glad we largely see eye to eye. It's kinda cathartic! How much of performed morality do you think arises in adversarial contexts vs collaborative ones...

A general principle that informed decisions are better ones. And that this requires accurate presentation of information. If I've shat on someone I do...

Banned @"Andrew4Handel" for consistently evangelising borderline hate speech. This is after two formal warnings and in-thread interventions.

:up: This frustrates me no end. People judge things as immoral (evil) when they're merely uncomfortable with those things. People are whimsically crue...

I'm quite sure you have different concerns!

I read Metzinger as saying essentially this. Up to and including the self/world distinction as a bodily modelling process with environmental feedbacks...

I hadn't meant "material constitution" in a substantial sense. Just something the thing does. Like walking. Do you think it would be evidence for cons...

Perhaps a better strategy. It helps though. I had a friend in Iran, there is a sizeable anti-theist anarchist black metal scene there. There'd be no w...

Religion's an enabler of those prejudices though innit. Not in the abstract. But would the world have had Qutub without an amenable Islamic ideology? ...

As for him being an academic of status: I mean he gets invited for lecture series, teaches a popular lecture course at the European Graduate School, i...

I'm just going to answer in terms of (what I understand of) Metzinger's approach, since it is amenable to me and is materialist while taking phenomena...

Interested in why you strongly disagree with consciousness being a cluster concept. There seem to be a lot of types of conscious states that have radi...

I'd guess the following style of inference would work for it: "What behaviours must an entity exhibit that renders consciousness the most plausible ex...

@"Srap Tasmaner" @"Michael" @"sime" I also want to thank you all for the same reason. Thank you bandwagon.

:up: Priors supposedly representing no prejudice turning out to have major influence on results has been a thing in recent years. Also mega agree on t...

Aye I see what you mean. Thank you for your clarification. I really like the paper's use of the idea that the claim "X iff Y" works completely differe...

Perhaps it's a misnomer to call them correlated, because there's no meaningful notion of a joint event of both occurrences within the same sample spac...

Aye! I remember these. It was a good point. This is what put me onto the idea that there's contradictions inherent in the framing. If you end up tryin...

@"Pierre-Normand" Aye. But you're disagreeing on whether the coin toss is the only random thing in the experiment (and realises in pairs of days), whe...

I've been reading along, I have a meta question for you both @"Pierre-Normand"@"Michael" - why is it helpful to discuss variants which are allegedly t...

Can you put them to me in excruciating detail please?

I never buy betting arguments unless the random variables are set up!

I agree those are different btw. They describe completely different approaches to modelling the problem. That doesn't immediately tell us which SB oug...

I'll illustrate my reasoning about the days. There's an issue in calculating the marginal distribution over the days for the thirder. I reasoned somet...

The question which has been eating me is "What is the probability of the day being Tuesday?". I think it's necessary to be able to answer that questio...

It's not a very instrumental statement. Reactionary patriarchal ideology's been largely the same for decades, right. The same themes and attitudes, di...

Agreed. So, that's a candidate answer to:

I also interpreted it like this. But I believe there's an additional element; those three deficiencies get internalised and seen as universal/essentia...

I know, it depends. If you sound like Adorno and you make a point like: "public speech in favour of marginalised identities is often a means of garner...

@"Michael" - you ruined my mind again god damnit. Edit: now I'm a halfer. Damnit it's late.

If I understand right, if the coin is heads 100 times, she wakes up on Monday and is not woken up on Tuesday. If the coin is not heads 100 times, she ...

Can you write me it in the style of the OP? No variables, just when the coin flips happen, when sleeping beauty would wake up etc.

I'll analyse that case if you can describe it very specifically. Like in the OP.

I'm basing this on the table you've given me, I think. I'm not sure this is true. Here are my thoughts on it. If SB being awoken was independent of th...

I see. This one is clear. I'll have a think about it.