It's interesting to compare deGrasse Tyson to Penrose. deGrasse Tyson, of course, inherited Comos. Penrose does interviews but he's sort of withdrawn,...
Yeah, i don't know, I'm in the same boat. I've really wanted a guru at parts in my life, and have alwaysfound something to distrust in everyone. I lik...
Right! the impulse is good. And, to be fair to science, you can do the same thing to the arts. It's fun to mess around with paint, it's enthralling to...
Right - science yields antibiotics (to take the low-hanging, cliche defense of science), but that doesn't get at the everyday way many people relate t...
why not get angry and violent in a space where its ok to do so? There's a violence and anger in any moral dialectic, no matter how far you zoom out. T...
Yeah, that's a good point. That was always my criticism of U.G. Krishnamurti, back when I used to talk to people who talked about U.G. Krishnamurti. H...
Good point - a scientific experiment, I suppose (I'm not well read on this, admittedly), requires setting up an environment that controls for variable...
Yeah, when I think of naturalized esotericism, I tend to think of artistic movements. That sort of thing feels inevitable, and natural to me. Of cours...
Coming in too late to read all the way through, but based on first-page: 'you shall know them by their fruits', a frame 180 referenced, is a good one....
Procedurally, on pf, I think they're allowed. But also: the world insults us, continually. Is that insult legitimate? Maybe a thread on legitimacy wou...
All a little digressive- but at the same time - skill, childhood, mastery - it all ties back into the 'I' and "we" from the beginning. (I add, because...
Yes! And the thing of skill or art or mastery is its not reducible - you know it when you see it, and if you loose all the accumulated scales-over-the...
@"j0e" beautiful bouquet of passages. I really like the archipelago-vibe - a series of loosely connected passages - loose enough (like the resemblance...
I think that's fair. Upon reflection, death, per se, isn't what gives my life flavor either ( full disclosure: I'm a staunch believer in reincarnation...
Congrats on the computer! I'm still bullish on pets.com. It's a long game. On the dark web, we holders of the pets.com/bitcoin/sega/crystal pepsi ETF ...
No worries! just wanted to make sure. (plus, I think, having seen 'pace' in both forums & formal texts, that it can be legitimately used in both ways ...
I actually think we agree here (though I'm still shaky on the meaning/usage of 'pace.' I'd long taken it to mean 'contra, with respect' but have since...
hey joe. I don't know that I folllow you, (beyond , I think? an ironic undermining of philosophy, which there with you) but I will say I actually like...
This thread's activity probably isn't a good index for tracking bitcoin's value. The thread was last active, save a handful of posts, around 6 months ...
Yeah he has some prime position for something to do with Thiel & finance. I don't begrudge him that. I'm just trying to say that that fact makes him o...
Oh yeah, I believe in (the reality of whats designated by the term) 'public or perish', don't get me wrong. As with your other account, I think its an...
Yes, that's fair, that is how I was thinking of it, but too cavalierly used the first word that came to mind. I should've said 'quite skeptical, given...
"publish or perish," as I understand it, is usually used to denigrate an, uh, Embedded Growth Obligation (EGO). It basically means that you have to sa...
Again, I don't necessarily disagree with your general analysis. In fact, I mostly agree with it. I just don't think it applies to this particular case...
@"frank" That fits nicely with Harvey's analysis, as I remember it (been a while, & I think I only read the first 3/5 or so) Ideological 'neoliberals'...
Oh there is a thing where bitcoin 'miners' are buying up video cards, I heard a piece on bloomberg or the economist or one of those. As crazy as it so...
I agree with your analysis in general, but I don't think that analysis applies to Weinstein. He isn't someone in academia who's been unwittingly dragg...
:up: Challenge presented, and handily taken down, respect. My personal go-tos have been 'rationalist community' adjacent-thinkers. I don't tend to agr...
Now that's a populist criticism I can get behind. On the plus side, maybe by the time you can get a new rig, cyperpunk will be all patched-up and you'...
Agreeing with @"maw", I think Eric Weinstein is a figure deeply wrapped up in an 'not-appreciated-by-the-mainstream' self-narrative (and that that lea...
The Orchard Keeper - Cormac Mccarthy There There- Tommy Orange Collected Stories - Chekov Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman Palm at the End of the Mind - W...
Quoting the same part @"Tom Storm" did, because I think it's the crux: I agree, but what's weird about this quote is either side - pro-pill, anti-pill...
I don't have much of an excuse then. Probably should have learned that already, but learned now, I'll most probably get it. I think I broadly feel the...
I don't know, I think it's good? Not an anti-vaxxer, but just not sure if I want to. I think I had Covid in November of last year. I was with a friend...
Oh man I love this - it's so easy to laugh at drawing badass jets, and to forget that a lot of - this - is also drawing badass jets. I was a shit draw...
Nah you're good. It goes back to what we were talking about pieces introduced. I've been reading a lot about masks discussed in a certain way that was...
In spades, yeah. Most of my friends aren't 'intellectuals' (i put the scare quotes because they're more interesting than most intellectuals I talk to,...
Ah! somehow I missed this the first time. I really like this approach, and agree. I find myself using cultural touchstones as shorthand all the time i...
Possibly, you have your sister & your sister's kid over, you cook a meal, you put on some music. You play some games with the kid, you talk to your si...
Nice passage - there's something about Whitman's poetry that does seem to tap into something vital in a way you see rarely even in most poetry. He out...
Definitely. Time-traveling a second, I posted the one you're responding to after nibbling on some chocolate edibles, and I guess I nibbled more than I...
Yeah, in terms of parenting - like in terms of how one ought to parent - It's undecidable for me too. Ideally, a dad would do his best to clock what e...
OK, response part 2, the softer round: Yes, that's it. The 'everything is one' message can take radically different tones. I find Schopenhauer to be h...
Coming at this by way of two synchronicities There's a small market in the town I live in that has this free bookshelf. It's fun to browse because it'...
On that note, just had the thought and impulse to repaste the last section I posted from the Gospel of Thomas: (3) Jesus said, "If those who lead you ...
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