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by edavison1 11y ago
"So when he talks about emotional radar and her being the mom and whatnot, it all strikes me as a false dichotomy, one I've worked hard to avoid. It's especially odd to me in a piece about society treating a woman as lesser.&
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by edavison1 11y ago
It's uncomfortable to me that Paul Graham felt he had to write this. In particular, his enumeration of Jessica Livingston's 'Social Radar' as if it is some kind of superpower reads to me like a long list of the virtues e
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by edavison1 11y ago
I'd agree with you if it had been 'run unqualified'——but in the very next paragraph the author seems to (strongly) disagree with that hypothesis. I would also say that 'shrill hipsterism' is a nebulous complaint. Ag
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by edavison1 12y ago
Writers, including critically acclaimed ones, can't produce their art without a legit publishing house making sure that their books are readable. There is a long chain of people in publishing working to ensure you maintain that percept
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by edavison1 12y ago
"I think this will be solved by authors going after very specific niches---the long tail... This is unchartered [sic] publishing territory because previously publishers would never take on a niche subject because it wouldn't make
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by edavison1 12y ago
Wasn't expecting this in the comments, but super appreciated. The hops arms race must end. I hope we will all go back to drinking delicious, sessionable lagers soon and realize the IPA/microbrew snobbery mindset so prevalent today
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by edavison1 13y ago
Yeah I mean as long as there's historical continuity between our civilization and these hypothetical future human-like things, I'm totally on board. Not committed to humans as they are in 2014 sticking around forever. I think any
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by edavison1 13y ago
Eh. I dunno whether I am just optimistic, but let's try to remember that certainty isn't part of the scientific vocabulary; almost by definition science never seeks to provide a final answer on any subject and remains open to furt
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by edavison1 13y ago
Eh, I don't know but the 'open question' argument has always made sense to me: 'For any non-moral description of an action or object it seemed that competent speakers could without confusion doubt that the action or obje
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by edavison1 13y ago
Perhaps one of the reasons emotional language keeps appearing in this thread is that moral judgments can be viewed as nothing more than the expression of emotional attitudes, as opposed to propositions with any particular truth value. That
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Russian Ark, a film consisting of a single 96 minute shot.(slowlyreadingannakarenina.com)
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Tolstoy's Radical Politics(slowlyreadingannakarenina.com)
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The Lunar Connection to Mental Illness(slowlyreadingannakarenina.com)
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