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Correct! I enjoyed Flight the most :up:

As someone who seems to know quite a lot about semiotics and is passionate about its applications to philosophy and science, what books would you reco...

How did you find Against the Grain?

Finished the Introduction and Transcendental Aesthetic. Some questions: Kant says that knowledge a priori is that which is absolutely independent of a...

Thanks, I plan on reading Schopenhauer after Kant.

I realized I am not getting the most out of Allison's book if I don't read Kant's Critique alongside with. My own progress is going to be a bit slower...

I'm not following. Anyway, SO or Reddit would be a better place to discuss this.

You could have the kernel monitor whenever write operations are attempted on root, and report them then. Processes can't open files without going thro...

How? If this TimeShift program gets hacked, it could have its revert abilities removed. Hashes are used all over cryptography and data integrity. I do...

What if a friendly actor needs to make a change to this root folder for legitimate reasons? What if this TimeShift program gets hacked in some way? It...

I'm confused, the kernel is already "mounted" in RAM if you mean that it already has its code in some location in RAM. The kernel (and OS in general) ...

What do you mean by this?

Chapter 6: The Intellectual Conditions of Human Knowledge This chapter was short but dense. I understand the overall argument, but I'm not sure if I u...

I never said I am a completely self-sufficient individual. I understand the importance of gun control in maintaining the social order that you and I h...

I won't disagree with you about people generally being safer without there being some guy with an AR walking down the street. My point was that I don'...

I take empirical idealism to mean that we are only acquainted with the private data of our own minds. There is no reference to inter-subjectivity. Tra...

Wearing a gun can be a totum that represents someone's desire to be self-sufficient and prepared to defend themselves. Obviously it can be a danger to...

For sure, I program for a living and this is the case.

My experience has been that there is a very thin sweet spot in which alcohol can really boost your creativity, after which it makes it plummet. Mariju...

That's a good question. Ultimately it does seem that Kant's position on the a priori intuitive nature of space and time relies upon his belief that th...

Chapter 5: The Sensible Conditions of Human Knowledge This was a long and dense chapter, though rewarding in its contents. I have separated the summar...

It never was moral to have children, but nowadays it's undeniable.

Someone watched Starship Troopers recently :lol:

Great read, quite thrilling. :up:

Lovely but painful story. The thought of remembering someone other than your spouse during your final moments...

And so it goes, indeed. :lol: :100:

Interesting concept!

Pretty spooky :eyes: I enjoyed reading it.

Surreal and entertaining, I liked it!

Nice, that's a sweet copy. I have a hardback anthology of Kant's works by the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1952, part of their "Great Books o...

Allison is one hell of a scholar, that's for sure.

Chapter 4: Discursivity and Judgment I thought this chapter to be excellent, though certainly dense. It is a chapter in which a lot of important termi...

Against the Grain was great, I couldn't stop reading it. I've also read part of Seeing Like A State, though that required more commitment than I was a...

There is no determinate goal, just a perpetual drive for progress and improvement of efficiency. Things are just supposed to keep getting better and b...

In The Technological System, Ellul has this to say about "posts" and other vague terms:

Incest might be rare in part because it is seen as a taboo. Do you know how popular incest porn is? Probably incest is a taboo at least in part becaus...

I think what is being presumed is that members of a family have grown up together and share a certain type of bond that would be, in principle, ruptur...

Fucking your sister is probably going to destabilize family dynamics, no? Then again, Game of Thrones made it hot.

Our culture of work has been influenced by Protestantism. Working hard (is supposed to) build character. It's just another partially-obscured belief t...

Chapter 3: The Antinomy of Pure Reason I found this chapter to be more challenging than the previous two. There are a few areas that I am not confiden...

Why do you care what the crowd thinks? Their misery is not your problem. Let them do whatever they want and you can try to focus on the well-being of ...

I don't know.

Are you asking which is worse, to be foolish or to be evil?

One of the neatest tricks of the capitalist technological system has been the commercialization of libertarian values for the bourgeoisie. Big-tech co...

I'll check out Nussbaum's book, thanks. You say here that we can only apply the golden rule as much as practically able, and that no viable ethics is ...

I hate being physically injured, but I may physically injure someone who tries to do so to me.

I think society is not quite collapsing, but I do think it is eroding. I don't know if there will be a sacking-of-Rome scenario, I think it more likel...

:up: Ever read Ellul?

Ah man you got me all worked up for nothing :yikes: