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by feralimal 6y ago
Why? I am a person, and I am making my personal observations. I am happy to hear other perspectives, wisdom, understanding. I'm not that interested in people not engaging with the ideas presented, as the form is difficult. This is sor
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by feralimal 6y ago
"The point of my post is that your epistemology is too narrow. Trying to sell you on my epistemology was outside of my intent." Well, you either know a thing or not. Its really that simple. You know you are sitting at a table, ty
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by feralimal 6y ago
I would like to hear too. But I think I know. Most people when they hear an opinion that they dislike (possibly because its challenging or worse, true) would rather that opinion disappeared. I think I am downvoted and flagged because I am
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by feralimal 6y ago
I don't know the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Do you? How do you know it? If I was to sit next to you, would you be able to walk me through all the steps whereby I would be able to say that I know it too? What does 'know'
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by feralimal 6y ago
That's a great quote, and I've enjoyed PKD's work. As a skeptic, I would agree that I would not claim to know so much. I have lots of hypotheses though. And, as a skeptic, you might think that there would not be much to say.
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by feralimal 6y ago
Once again I am getting the message that I am posting too fast. I think its when I am flagged for my 'contentious viewpoints'. Last time it was 3 hours before I could post, but I will submit this when I can. HN can be very frus
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by feralimal 6y ago
What is a matter of fact? I'll save you some time, it is that we can verify personally. If I can verify it, I can say 'its true' and that 'I know it'. But the problem is that most individuals verify very little - i
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by feralimal 6y ago
The questions about fundamentals - cooking, reading. I would of course agree that these are useful to the individual. Now coding - again the skill is neutral. But what you code might not be. Why do you code what you code? Should you co
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by feralimal 6y ago
"You are right that you don't have to be a trained philosopher to think for yourself. In the same way that training in martial arts helps with punching, or training in coding helps you write better software, training in thinking h
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by feralimal 6y ago
Can one make anything other than anecdotal arguments? If your arguments aren't based on your personal reasoning, what are they based on? Also, I don't agree that you need to be trained philosopher to think for yourself. But why
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by feralimal 6y ago
I agree that technology requires philosophy. But 'the world' requires philosophy - technology is just an extension of the world. Discomfitingly, 'the world' or 'society' is really just an idea in an individual
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by feralimal 6y ago
Thank you! I've been getting some flak on my 1984 comments! On mental health, I still like the old quote: "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Cheers!
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by feralimal 6y ago
I get you! This is something that impacted blind individuals. I didn't know. Thanks.
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by feralimal 6y ago
I'm not clear what your position is, but what does it say about one, in one can only see the tyranny in a book but not be able to see it in real life?
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by feralimal 6y ago
And - to go further still - Orwell, Huxley (and perhaps Zamyatin) fulfil the 'Goldstein' role, IRL.
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by feralimal 6y ago
I would suspect that Yevgeny Zamyatin would also have been privy to the plan. Aldous Huxley too.
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by feralimal 6y ago
If Big Brother hadn't told you about Covid, would you even know?
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by feralimal 6y ago
> Sadly modern day web browsers have such less support for it that they even dropped the media device targets from the CSS spec, which I think is morally wrong. 'Morally wrong'? This is an interesting phrase to use - are you a
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by feralimal 6y ago
Isn't there meant to be a curve of around 8 inches per mile?
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by feralimal 6y ago
Great to hear that science (neuroscience) here is catching up with Orwell. It is a great book, and Orwell was spot on with so much of what he wrote. How did he do it? I think I know. I don't think Orwell (Erik Blair) was writing a b
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by feralimal 6y ago
"people who don't think truth can be known, often act with a great deal of certainty about things they believe to be right." Great comment. It is very rare, in my opinion to find anyone who isn't acting on beliefs as if
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by feralimal 6y ago
Yuck. Neither democracy nor facebook, thanks. Nor any nannying or moralising about hate speech. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me. Or you.
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by feralimal 6y ago
23m podcast
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Why there is no legal remedy for Covid(the-quash.captivate.fm)
1 points by feralimal 6y ago|1 comments
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by feralimal 6y ago
It doesn't mention facebook. Why? If you look at the members section, at the bottom of this page, facebook is not there. https://www.diem.com/en-us/association/
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by feralimal 6y ago
I like the observations you make, and I think you are correct in them. I object to this though: "Collective failure of imagination" There is so much wrong with that statement, I barely know where to start. Government is a collecti
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"(Some of the oldest companies, including Ichiwa, cannot definitively trace their history back to their founding, but their timelines are accepted by the government, scholars and — in Ichiwa’s case — the competing mochi shop across the
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Who's fact checking the fact checkers – a case in point re Covid
1 points by feralimal 6y ago|7 comments
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by feralimal 6y ago
Here is the full quote. I think its even better: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busyb
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by feralimal 6y ago
Who arbitrates? Is it whoever owns big corporations? Is it the mainstream media? Are they trustworthy? Is it the government? Scientists? Which one of us holds the truth? One man's facts are another man's lies. And this is fi

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