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You're right, it does. I think it's more apt to characterise speculative realism by what questions its philosophers ask and how they ask them. I'm und...

I don't know how user friendly a description of speculative realism can be. I don't even really think it's a thing; it's more of a perspective that "s...

For what they're reacting against; nature is claimed to be construed as nature-under-the-aspect-of-the-norms-of-scientific-discourse, with the critica...

My take on it: Post phenomenological realism; a return to emphasising scientific content rather than human discourse. Nature philosophy done by approp...

Yes. That is true.

I have one? Maybe? If you put all the ideas and all the logical/evidential/semantic relations between them on a page, you'd have a big network. It'd b...

The "solve for" operation means you've already put the inverse function of f(y)=k into the mix, its existence is required for that proof to work; that...

There're two questions there really. One is: can you define all operations in terms of addition? This is the question of whether you can generate a bu...

No idea. Same thing happens on twitch and reddit. Invisible lurkers > Registered Lurkers > Posters.

Most community members of most places on the internet are lurkers. This whole site is like a small longform subreddit.

We tend to talk about the things people are generally talking about. The times are weird; people talk about the times. We talk about the times. Regard...

I don't think they forge them either. You don't need to forge anything to get true statistics that can spin to what you like. The overall number of ca...

Oi @"NOS4A2", have you buggered off because you understood a worked example of systemic racism and now want to forget the fact?

Except it's not a figure of speech for rhetorical effect, UK Covid statistics are being reported in tabloids in exactly that way and for a clear polit...

:up: Thanks!

Do you actually though? I don't mean to say you have a standard philosophical position on the matter, but don't you have conceptual insight/imaginatio...

That's the crucial thing though, a supposedly race indifferent algorithm does pick up on real correlations (poverty + nonwhite proportion in neighbour...

It would be doing much the same thing if it didn't record the ethnicity of the people "it" samples. It has a tendency to concentrate policing effort b...

It's mostly other factors. But the sampling effort is race split. So the system is discriminatory.

If you're going to trust me on it since I've studied it: yes. Police go to areas with high crime. Racial profiling makes them "criminal test" people i...

Here's a banal and insidious variation on racial profiling. Predictive policing.

So even though it doesn't target you by name, it's made explicitly to target you, and then some other people incidentally get effected by it. It is a ...

Okay. Now let's say that it's anyone with approximately 3.4k posts who fit the criteria. Still targets you? Still a Nos4a2-ist policy? Even though it'...

If there was another person who fit the criteria who wasn't you, would it cease to be made to target you?

It doesn't even refer to you. How can it target you?

Let's say we started banning Trump supporters with over 3.4k posts who believed that racism is propagated mostly through people categorising others in...

I'm done now. Your constant reframing attempts are, as ever, frustrating.

All the sensible police/legislative reforms don't explicitly mention race either, but they will help to address the problem... Same thing.

They don't need to... Such policies are sold as race neutral, they are not. That a politician can pull an economic policy lever to effect blacks dispr...

I don't think so. It takes a remarkable amount of confidence in social norms to believe that the categories of folk psychology are structurally identi...

You understood it enough to try and reframe the discussion away from it.

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The people you support know systemic racism exists and weaponise it to appeal to American racists. The denial you have of it? Their propaganda and eup...

Lee Atwater You're wilfully ignorant.

"UK Coronavirus Death Toll Increases by 36 in one of the lowest rises during lockdown" Just keeps going and going...

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If all you want to do is throw names around, it's pretty childish to dismiss a well researched body of work when you've not put in even a little effor...

If someone claims that first person events are identical to neural events then... For them there is no resultant "output state" corresponding to our f...

Maybe it will seem less ridiculous, or you'll have stronger reasons for rejecting eliminitave materialism after reading this.

I'm sorry, I didn't think about it in that way. You didn't get them banned, it was their post history. Enough of us agreed to ban and no one registere...

I think it's better explained by most of the staff eye rolling at god discussions, they're extremely tedious to moderate for the same reasons as they'...

What is it about selectively reporting almost exclusively favourable sounding out of context statistics to support a political agenda, despite the rea...

Thank you very much for the references.

It didn't, it's nice to have to explain decisions. If we fuck something up really bad you lot will probably notice.

Everyone low quality posts sometimes. Some people low quality post all the time. Gnostic's post history, from what I've read of it, is almost all low ...

A long post history of low quality is good evidence that a warning is not useful.

Nope.

Banned @"Gnostic Christian Bishop" for low quality, after @"Kenosha Kid", @"Banno"@"Wayfarer" brought their track record to mod attention.

The UK right wing rags are doing crap like "Lowest Friday increase in deaths since...", it's some real Animal Farm shit.

Isn't clothing dipped in a semiotics of racialisation anyway? I mean in the UK, there's the "hoody" archetype, which is inches away from the racist na...