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I don't mean to stifle talk about how things could improve. What I'm trying to stifle is a threat I see lurking in the OP. That threat is a move from ...

It's not even parody. Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason : "In southern Italy, the agricultural day labourers, the semi-employed bracciante, eat o...

I understand that the OP is not meant to offer any particular, positive suggestions. It's supposed to be a conceptual clearing, freeing a space to foc...

I'm sorry I was a dick upthread. I objected to the question you posed because it seemed like the only outcome it could lead to was an old and intermin...

responding to the edits. I mean, huff all you want S, you entered the thread trying to negate the whole thrust of someone else's point. Breakfast cere...

Just read some before attacking, everything will get more interesting

Think of it this way. There's a guy in a small town and he's hemmed in by this and that. Regulations, mores, all of that stuff. People are asking him ...

I don't think so. He seems to be more preoccupied with Kant.

The vector quantity stuff might be above his paygrade though.

I don't know, I guess you'd have to ask the guy who cites it. I couldn't say if he's knowledgable enough to list all those types of work, that's prett...

No it's a kind of joke. 'It's not 'will' but 'force', as S said, is just exchanging one word for another. There are many nuances to bring in here, but...

(aside: it's not 'will', it's 'force'. )

Good. Don't fetishize anything. Rovelli didn't and that's why, if he were a poster, and other posters were discussing, say, the Mahabharata, he wouldn...

I don't know. The way you ask that question makes me think you'd shut down Augustine and Heidegger as well. Yet Carlo Rovelli, no scientific lightweig...

Physicists do this thing where they try to explain laws, like gravity. Why does gravity work as it does? What's the explanation? You must have come ac...

The general basics of physics, as taught in school, don't purport to give an explanation of their cause though, so why would you bring them up as thou...

We need to be careful here. Are 'physics books' mediums of knowledge or are they signifiers, like magic cards, we can lay down for this or that argume...

Not will. Newton attributed it to God. I don't know what most modern physicists attribute it to. What do the physics books you've read say? The most r...

I mean you literally would find that in a physics book. That's a pretty standard idea in physics - the nonvariance of physical laws across huge spatia...

I think what I've always objected to in Schopenhauer --- and not even 'objected', it's not really a theoretical quibble --- it's that I never understo...

Fair, but what is 'nature'?

Not a batsignal, but an appreciative nod. The article makes sense to me. The summary sounds like german idealism + neurocomputation. Instead of a worl...

that's fair. All I know is it's something to do with cycles and swerves. And how cycles can only modify themselves from within, by swerving. And then ...

But those quotes are incompatible. Did Paul or did Augustine or did a 2nd century thinker invent the idea? The only reading of that collection of cont...

Would I be reading you wrong, if I said it sounds like you're saying that the 'spookiness' of QM (a human model of an extrahuman thing) )is due to an ...

hey thats somebodys daughter!

I'm glad you brought up entropy because, tbh, the OP is an explanation - the first true explanation - of entropy. Though of course the scientific comm...

Yes, definitely. But not only. I've been trying to wrap my mind around Rovelli (halfway through The Order of Time) and the idea that even though time ...

I'm listening to the audiobook of Sapiens and it's funny he just mentioned the conquering of Australia by prehistoric sapiens as a momentous event tha...

Totally ignorant, for sure. I do agree that jazz is cooperative improvisation. My thing was a tongue-in-cheek theory of the origin of jazz, along the ...

I'm not totally clear at what I'm getting at. A lot of things keep rolling together in my head, on threads with @"unenlightened" & @"fdrake" and my ow...

Yeah it's hard to untangle cause and effect and I'm not keen on the easy boomer analyses either. I think the phone is a handy expression of something ...

amen

I guess the question is whether AI control outstrips the energy it requires to sustain that control. I don't think so. Of course I don't know. But I t...

Very much in agreement about the role of shame and basically your entire analysis of how that plays out. Bo Burnham, of all people, made a good point ...

I gotta get some of these links to show you what I mean. It's already happening.

AI would have bulit into it a thing about allocating labor to sustain itself. Money is already a technology for distributing labor. Drop the ontologic...

You've clustered those last four together as a set of and I'd agree that none of them will, really, save us. I don't see the AI thing as a salvific fo...

It's interesting that in that data-as-oil-almost article, right and left coincide. It's clearly written from a left-standpoint (a smart left standpoin...

Yeah, I feel you. I've also felt more and more lately a vague sense that everything is converging on something, and that any attempt to influence what...

Hey sorry, I'd missed your response here. I think I agree mostly tho I still have some additional thoughts that muddle it up a little ( & big caveat: ...

I don't want to derail too much into the hedi/nazi thing, but yeah that is what I was thinking of. I like Heidegger a lot (a lot!) and I'm not one of ...

That's an interesting and dizzying thought. reengineering conditions - when the current condition is the breakdown of those bedrock-seeming values tha...

I'm gonna let myself float out a little here, but in the way (Arendt's) labor is the ebb and flow of biological life in relation to the earth, this ne...

I read a little bit of Virno in school. Mostly faded now, but I think that makes sense, dfw was definitely a 'virtuoso.' So using Arendts terms again ...

I'd love to meet Willow, but I don't feel like I ever have. I've met ideas about Spinoza. I've met patterns of thought. That all tend to general conce...

Well I know you, so I'm asking it of someone who meticulously opposes the singular to the universal. And really I truly don't know you because you've ...

Focusing in on one part - what does it mean to say 'accidental given by a property'? That makes me think something like this: 'A property is still too...

I don't mean that here. Cloud of unknowing (I've read it, though don't claim to truly understand it) I see as a very precise text for the practicing m...

You can interact with something without knowing what it is. You have a vague sense of it, or sometimes not even that.