IsaacL

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You are talking from ignorance. She doesn't have an "idea of the Ubermensch" - she esteems honest ordinary men highly, and condemns modern elites. What is Nietzsche's solution to the problem of universals? What does he s
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It sounds like you're parroting things you've heard second-hand. I was heavily into Nietzsche in my late teens and early 20s, before discovering Rand. He definitely influenced her in her early years, but by the time she came to wr
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Sarbanes-Oxley probably played a role as well. Successful startups now chase acquisition over IPO, which leads to the creation of huge empires (Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft) and few medium-sized players.
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I started a course in philosophy during my first year of university. I studied CS (in the UK, where you don't typically go far outside your major) but I'd always been curious about the humanities and thought it worthwhile to learn
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Here's a collection of jumping-off points to curious communities I've spent many a happy hour exploring: http://ribbonfarm.com https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences http://thearchdr
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> I saw the tweet, my point here is that's a single tweet My point, which you've ignored, is that we need to take into account the wider context, i.e. "the last few years of speaker exclusions and anti-"brogrammer&quo
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> this is a lot of speculation This is only speculation if you ignore the last few years of speaker exclusions and anti-"brogrammer" activism. All the evidence points to this being a proxy battle of "SJWs" vs "
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Dude, dude, dude, you've almost identified the real issue here (interpreting everything as harassment for the sake of an agenda), and then gone off onto wild elaborate tangents about social status and evolutionary biology. Look at the
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"I’ve switched comments to ‘not visible.’ I won’t be reading them. I don’t feel the need to justify this, either. Thanks <3." Ironically, that language "triggered" very bad memories of an extremely dishonest and passi
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I have learned not to jump to conclusions in these stories, even when I want to back my ideological "team". (I'm not a fan of SJWs, but many of the anti-SJWs make up for it by being even worse). The Nodevember statement seems
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Yes, fossil fuels, nuclear or hydro are the 3 feasible options. Long-term, investing in safer nuclear power is the way forward.
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The right to life implies you have the right to earn an income. This also implies property rights on your earned income. (The original formulation was "life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness").
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Yes. The huge majority of pro-UBI writings I see talk up the benefits in great detail but either ignore, or misrepresent, the costs. Lots of naive idealists support UBI - but I also frequently see UBI advocates who purport to be "evide
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"If we’re interested in social policies that are resilient I think the dignity problem, or the moral aspects of these policies are worth considering more closely." I certainly agree the moral aspects are worth considering. No matt
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Unfortunately, it's not going to work, and they will be ran out of business through the political will of the people, just as the tobacco industry is now having done to it. Cool, and what's your proposal for an alternati
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A classic gwern post. Exhaustively well-researched, and with reams of context and examples provided for every point and sub-point. Unfortunately, in dire need of editing and essentialising. Like other writers in the Lesswrong-rationalist sp
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The taxi drivers in this story are not being "forced into jobs". They're forcing others (app developers) to give them money. Or they're forcing customers to use their services over someone else. Don't equivocate on
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All of that is insanely stressful and I would argue if weed would have caused issues, I would have had larger problems. I did say "If you have your s... more or less together, you can probably use weed semi-regularly without
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Having known both drop-out monks and drop-out stoners, they're very different. Long-term meditators seemed to be very psychologically healthy, self-aware, cheerful, disciplined, etc whereas long-term stoners tended to be delusional, pa
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I've also known three people who smoked marijuana regularly and developed serious life problems as a result, along with a larger number who didn't develop major problems but who definitely "stalled". I also knew many who
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It's hard to summarise. Read "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" which contains the fundamentals of a theory of knowledge, specifically a theory of the nature of concepts. That's the part which is relevant for thi
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Modern academic philosophy won't help because it's dominated by certain false ideas. The problem with physics today is rationalism - constructing theories with only partial reference to experimental data. Some fields, like psychol
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The article discusses a professor who hypothesises that consciousness is simply an illusion the brain creates for itself. But you can't explain the concept 'illusion' without reference to 'consciousness', so this ex
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> Another example of what I mean is all the articles that pop up on HN about how the modern internet is destroying attention spans. How do we address that best? I realised this was a serious problem about 3 years ago, after reading The S
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The brain drain depends on what policies are implemented. I have mixed feelings about BoJo but he's the front-runner for next PM and he's signalled he wants to remain open to immigration. The UK has tons of smart Indian and Chines
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Stratechery has many insightful posts but I don't think this one is accurate. The author writes that the new order will be made up of government, tech and individuals. "Corporations" are intentionally absent from the new orde
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> every economist Most but not all. Economics is currently split into multiple schools which disagree on philosophical fundamentals, and is hardly an exact science. How many economists predicted the financial crisis? Those that did tend
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> It's quite clear that Boris did not want the referendum to win. It's not clear to me. I think you are taking it as self-evident that Leave is a bad idea. In the mainstream narrative, the EU is associated with everything nice
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This is exactly my feeling on the matter. To be fair, there are thoughtful people on both sides, but the uninformed and emotional make the most noise. But yes, when you've studied both sides and decided that Leave is the rational choic
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Euclid proved it in ancient Greece and you can look up his proof online. It's pretty succinct, though his proofs can sometimes be hard to follow as the Greeks had a different conception of number to the modern one.

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