Here I am slowly peeling back the lid so that the worms can only come out of the can one by one and we get a chance to look at them, and then you come...
I honestly have no idea what value the "just-like-me" idea has. It is An Idea I Had, so I've been screwing around with it. One point about it of inter...
If by "rely on force" you mean something like, "rely on force to impose the state on people who don't want it", I have nothing to say about such a vie...
That's very interesting. You could be absolutely right. Of course my approach has been to presume that we put as little work as possible into the same...
Have you read Why Nations Fail? Some states take on the role of ensuring the property rights of their citizens and mediating the inevitable property d...
The simplest things I can think of are cases where something blocks action. That could be something external, akrasia, laziness, uncertainty, who know...
Exactly. Goffman looks like he's almost too much fun to read. Yes, that's what I find interesting about the bone-headed approach; "just like me" isn't...
Should we even believe your claims to care about the women of Texas? Or should we look at what you do? Which is what exactly? Maybe you can explain to...
Quick note on the methodology here. The idea of the bone-headed approach is to resist using the abstractions (intent, values) that have already accumu...
Passing by the theory of theorizing, with some effort. Nor I! Not all that happy with the result, but glad I did it. I was in a mode of trying to thin...
For simplicity, starting with a single issue: whether to get vaccinated. I don't know if the following is any good at all -- it's all off-the-cuff -- ...
Sorry, I must not have been clear enough: I was only talking about efficiency there. (I was deliberately passing over the other stuff you talk about t...
When Ryle was made Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, he commented that a chair in metaphysics is like a chair in infectious diseases: yo...
Maybe if the execution weren't so perfect, but holy shit that's dead on! (I work in retail, in Georgia, and have been the recipient of multiple lectur...
Heh. In the context of this paragraph and your last messages to @"tim wood", this is an amusing substitution: in Disney's Sleeping Beauty, the weapon ...
What follows is a little disjointed because I kept pruning away the joints: It sounds like filtering is not something done by a subsystem that has tha...
I still have the case at hand in mind and will be coming back to it. (Most threads end up being about one of a few evergreen topics, no matter how the...
Absolutely. Introducing hierarchy is very sound idea. I have lots of thoughts which I am, through sheer force of will and adroit use of the "select al...
Yeah, or some addition to his, um, intake. I still feel a bad though, because as he said himself, some of it -- and maybe all of it -- was just excite...
The one thing I'd add is that since we know system 2 is the training ground for system 1 -- note -- there's hope that we can attend to our system 1 dr...
I can't even read the whole title on my phone, but I don't have to to know exactly what that is. I take back every bad thing I've ever said about you....
That's generally what we do around here, right. This is just a big mess for philosophy in general: on the one hand we want to talk as if everyone is i...
Sure, if you know them and have some idea how they make decisions, then that would fall under "-- or don't because you have other reasons not to ." Ma...
Can I keep the part that sounds like biology and ignore the part that sounds like ontology? Everything after "complex entity composed of" is dandy, or...
I did think of a way that might do some of what's wanted: if you imagine objects in a grid of however-many dimensions, and each dimension is a way of ...
I think so. What would you be approving of? But again, someone choosing the non-favored option only means you require some explanation -- or don't bec...
Sorry, I'll try to behave myself. Btw, I'm still not clear on the thesis we're all ignoring if only because it seems more natural to me to think that ...
I don't see where intelligence comes into it, unless the definition is very broad indeed. I would have thought something like sensitivity or responsiv...
Indeed. But the world's a complicated place, so we take shortcuts. Your differing taste might leave another unable to understand your action. "Ugh. Ho...
That's really lovely, and very on point because that "spontaneity" you mention, that's chance under another name. And yet woodgrain is an excellent ex...
Epsitemically, there's no final settling down to either "this is patterned" or "this isn't". You've no way to know that a pattern you perceive will co...
Sorry, yes, that's one of those sentences that makes sense in your head... What I meant was this: suppose I did not avoid but preferred risks that wer...
Sure, I know how the argument works. I also know "perspective" and "point-of-view" have been metaphored to mean all sorts of things. I was just wonder...
I hope he didn't say that because I've been feeling somewhat kindly toward LW lately and I have a strong allergic reaction to that idea. I think it's ...
Two other ways of putting this come to mind, each of which has a sort of icky loop in it: (1) Patterns aren't found in real things, but in abstraction...
If you and I stand a ways apart, and between us there's a red car and a blue car, the red car closer to me and the blue closer to you, from my perspec...
First things first: But I'm clearly right and you said exactly that: That is, without reference to the standard you don't approve of, exactly as I sai...
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