harwoodjp

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by harwoodjp 3mo ago
Great
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by harwoodjp 1y ago
Your dualism between model and world is nearly Cartesian. The model itself isn't separate from the world but produced materially (by ideology, sociality, naturally, etc.).
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
An injury to one is an injury to all.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
Personal property is distinct from private property.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
> violence necessary to steal the means of production You could argue that private property is theft, necessarily enforced by a repressive state, and reappropriation is justice. The general strike is non-violent (until the police arrive)
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
If you read the literature around the Bolshevik revolution, Lenin's coup was highly criticized as un-socialist: Luxemburg, Goldman, etc. Simple litmus test for socialism: do workers manage production completely, through direct democrat
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
> Socialists are always concerned with distributing production equally. Not really. Socialism (the project of the labor movement) is concerned with workers being in control of their own work, not vessels for capitalist exploitation. Synd
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
> Are you proposing we seize their land? Not necessarily, but I think the workers should operate their farm democratically. > That’s what the Soviets did The USSR was state capitalist. Workers' councils (or soviets) stopped being
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
Well actually socialism has been historically concerned with maximizing human creativity. Fourier’s utopian vision was “libidinal” work that aligns passions with labor. Marcuse has a similar view in Eros and Civilization. Chomsky views crea
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
You guys are both discussing intelligence hierarchies (wtf?) without regard to actual history of popular labor movements being violently squashed.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
Your view is called Social Darwinism and it’s really dangerous/dystopian. Also collapses under scrutiny.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
Automation makes jobs unnecessary. We should build social infrastructure that allows people to pursue their passions with basic necessities guaranteed. This has been possible for awhile now.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
Socialism is seizing the workplace from the capitalist.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
Why don't workers unite to democratically manage production? The police, propaganda, wage slavery.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
It's true that, in those groups, a shared ethnic identity enables economic cooperation. But the lack of solidarity you observe is the result of a regime of coercion. The official policy: leave your neighborhood, family, friends, and pa
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
Your "holes" example is a distortion (simplification and misinterpretation) of Marx's theory.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
It’s actually off putting if you check out a potential employer’s GitHub and it’s filled with obsessive committers, obviously working late hours, weekends, holidays, etc.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
I assure you that your life in tech, waging for a boss, is a waste of time.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
You’re confusing empiricism with evolutionary epistemology. Evolutionary epistemology isn’t exclusively empirical.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
I don’t think you understand what philosophy is.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
The point is that naive (vulgar) empiricism is untenable because to perform and evaluate scientific practices you inevitably invoke premises that are rational or pragmatic, not empirical.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
> experiment is the ultimate arbiter of truth Can you help me design experiments to prove the following? * Simpler theories, with equal explanatory and predictive power, are preferable * I'm not dreaming and there's no evil dem
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
> Empiricism can be justified empirically It's so obvious you haven't engaged with the subject matter.
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by harwoodjp 2y ago
> few would expect food being distributed for free uhh
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by harwoodjp 3y ago
In Debord's explicit engagement with surrealism, he admits its influence. Detournement, for example, draws equally from Asger Jorn's technique of "modification" and Surrealist collage. Furthermore, as a Marxist, he'
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by harwoodjp 3y ago
That's fair re: use of neoliberal. Surrealism's aim was to develop liberatory modes of thinking/being, in contrast to dogmas of rationality, capitalism, commodity culture, etc. SI = Situationist International
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by harwoodjp 3y ago
Critiques aside, the Situationists are indebted to Surrealism for its development of "unconscious" techniques. Derive, psychogeography, etc. are theoretically similar to automatic writing. Your comment misses the political dimensi
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by harwoodjp 3y ago
Naive binary
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by harwoodjp 3y ago
I wonder if a scan -> OCR -> LLM proofreading pipeline is possible?
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by harwoodjp 3y ago
You could probably drop the server and use Cloudflare Pages and a SSG. I use Astro for https://sabine.press/ Edit: oh and Lambda for a total of 2 server functions

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