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I've heard that similar things happen in communities with a safe space policy. Sometimes it is easier to have a simplified narrative; for therapeutic ...

I don't know what to make of this other than fucking your cousins helps Black Lives Matter.

Think this is more to do with a wounded reaction to the term's use rather than anything to do with the systemic properties of privilege. Though, the w...

Not what I said. Ignores the socio-economic dimensions. I responded in a way that highlighted the epistemological angle to take on privilege because t...

This is lazy. Standpoint theory originated in intersectional approaches to feminism. Specifically, black women face different stuff to white ones. As ...

Read about standpoint theory for the epistemological dimension.

White privilege isn't a call for shame. It's not there to make people ashamed of being white. The idea is pretty banal and has sociological and episte...

Under what conditions do people think morally? Sometimes people orient their lives towards impersonal commandments and principles. A life lived with a...

Cashing out this idea of sensitivity could be done in a few ways. If we're looking at the molecular dynamics of a distribution of amylase in solution ...

Maybe the only relation to the arche-fossil is that it tries to be a ground-clearing for thought like this. A demystification device, an impetus from ...

This post was originally titled "Enzymatic catalysis as a model of causality". A rough description of how enzymes work in general is that they're: (1)...

I think you can do philosophy in a way which inspires transformation of whatever domain you're dealing with; I think another way of doing it is more e...

I think it must be remembered that school shooters are just as embedded in this economy of meaning; only they seem challenged enough by it to act as t...

A model of a system typically contains parameters; variables of interest which capture dynamics within it. Parameters are directions of variation of a...

Yes. Compassion good. That kind of article that portrays high school shooters as misunderstood loners in need of love, not so good. No one's ever been...

No one is ever saying that a gun causes someone to shoot things. An intersectional approach is required to understand their effects here; guns are fac...

Well... school shootings would be less... likely if... there were... less readily available gu- I'll be over there in the corner.

I don't really know. Someone who conceived of nature as one big undifferentiated glut, or one big self differentiating glut probably would be anathema...

Yes. I would love to be able to talk without the word "cause", but it is so convenient. I'm trying to think of causes systemically, as they are distri...

No no you helped me. The thought/being criticism is wack, though.

I think I'm doing philosophy, though I don't think the topics and questions are particularly well posed yet. It's somewhere in the intersection of ass...

In a response to @"frank" I wrote: The ability for seed germination processes to filter in what is relevant for them is precisely this kind of causal ...

One system can only be sensitive to another when they have a direction of variation which can interact with another. In terms of seeds and dormancy; d...

The opposition between thought and being is not an opposition which matters for seeds. They do not have substrate independent concepts (red, justice, ...

Find topics that interest you. Doesn't matter whether it's within philosophy or whatever. You generally get exposed to interesting topics by studying ...

I've been listening to A Thousand Plateaus recently. I think this thread (and my recent posts) have been some interaction between that book, the recen...

Artificial distinctions which do not reflect system dynamics can be made. Nevertheless, nature can learn to discriminate. Processes can be sensitive t...

So I can't be bothered writing up bits from the book. But I will describe the general thing. It wasn't barley, it was wild wheat. Let's say I am a whe...

Well there's a lot to work through, and I'm not exactly presenting things in a unified manner, so the discussion being scattered is to be expected. I ...

I agree with you entirely. If I rewrote my OP and changed the volcano's timescale to "once every 10000 years" like you suggested, would your criticism...

So long as you can get this bit from it, that's all I care about.

The situation with more general causal networks is more complicated, you end up with so much shit mediating so much other shit 'direct cause' or 'caus...

I put math in mine so that means my rant has academic pedigree.

I definitely have snapped, fallen down a great big hole, I just hope my schizoid ranting invites others to jump in. Yes! A billion years is way too lo...

Stochastic processes are sequences of random variables. Random variables are summaries of stuff that happens; all the baby making in the world produce...

Two behaviourists are laying in bed after fucking. One says: "That was good for you, was it good for me?"

Courtship Exam How do you spend your days? Doing whatever it is I can still do without you. What interests do you have? Long walks on the beach into t...

I dunno, I'm apparently a p-zombie.

(@"StreetlightX" @"csalisbury" because Deleuze stuff) I guess I didn't talk about events and objects so well in that context. Bar magnets. Let's go wi...

What an individual is depends on the scope of the question "What is an individual?"; what an atom is has a much more tame domain of inquiry than what ...

Individuation comes along with emergent behaviour. Emergent behaviour is rooted in interaction. Fields interacting make atoms, atoms arranged thusly m...

If I cannot be the smile that graces your lips Let me be the wood that burns your sorrow If I cannot be the fire that warms your feet Let me be the gr...

All these bloody pure mathematicians trying to stop us from occupying their lawn. They forget the rest of us squatters were here first.

There's a general purpose procedure for doing causal inference in Bayesian models, though. Once you've fit the model, you sample from the posterior co...

The kind of algorithms, like neural networks, that are used to analyse big data aren't made of math objects that are interpretable in terms of the dat...

I love that he just gets to work on the issues, I read "Brief Lessons" a couple of months ago and it wasted absolutely no time.

Reminds me of: Daisy daisy give me your answer do I'm half crazy my balls are turning blue I can't afford a johnny, a plastic bag will do 'Cos you'll ...

I'll have this book soon. Will make a thread of it once I've finished reading.

Think even this is too instrumental, there's two ideas in the butterfly effect as usually presented that just aren't there in chaotic complex systems:...