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by istjohn 6y ago
You've misunderstood me if you think I'm arguing philosophy has no value. I'm only arguing that studying it will not help someone develop a personal philosophy.
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And yet most philosophers aren't Stoics. Physics will tell you how fast an object will fall. You can ask a dozen physicists and they will all give you the same answer. Philosophy only tells you how to live if you ask exactly one philos
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by istjohn 6y ago
> But is philosophy's function to find answers? You're moving the goal posts. Why did you just say that philosophy can help us address a long list of questions if you're willing to concede that maybe philosophy isn't
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> I would argue that the most important questions for most people are not scientific or mathematical questions, but philosophical ones -- such as: > - "what should I do with my life?" > - "what is the purpose of my l
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by istjohn 6y ago
> Science is a tool, we don't ask tools for their opinions or for our goals or for what to do with them. We use them to make things or to examine things, no to think about what we want to make, or to think about what is best to make
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by istjohn 6y ago
In my opinion, philosophy as a means of understanding ourselves and our world beyond what science can tell us is essentially futile. In Plato's day, there was no delineation between science, philosophy and mathematics. The word "p
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I strongly disagree with the recommendation to start with the Socratic dialogues. OP wants to "develop a personal philosophy." So they will want to learn the state of the art of philosophy. Starting with Plato to learn philosophy
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I don't remember where I read that, exactly. But here's an example that discusses some of these ideas: https://www.jstor.org/stable/350357
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My conjecture is that school systems tend to mirror the population they serve, with blue collar schools tending to be more authoritarian (it's cheaper to operate with the regularity and order of an assembly line, after all), and wealth
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There was a study that found that blue collar and white collar parents have distinct parenting styles. Blue collar parents are more authoritarian. They teach their children to obey authority, which as it happens is what is generally require
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The gist of it: > But there’s a far more compelling reason not to use any kind of PK in a public context: if you ever need to change keys, all your external references are broken. Think “404 Page Not Found”. > When would you need to c
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I'm not sure why you seem to think that her willingness to assert her rights under the law should discredit her in any way.
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How Children Took the Smallpox Vaccine Around the World(daily.jstor.org)
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That's a superficial, unconvincing take. Surely it is surprising to hear a "childhood criminal, devastating fighter, struggling alcoholic and recovering drug addict, convicted rapist, pop-culture eidolon" praise history by ex
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> A 2017 scientific literature search of 13 industrialized and industrializing countries found that an average car loses between a quarter kilogram and two kilograms of tire fragments annually. In the car-happy United States, the amount
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by istjohn 6y ago
Neat. I'd kill to have a podcast player with that feature.
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Keep reading. >If you use macOS Big Sur, blocking OCSP might not be as trivial.
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The menu is broken for me on Android Brave.
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The article says the response rate is just 1%.
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No paywall: https://archive.is/DH7zY
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Per the article, they are not getting "hit hard." No fines and no compensation for their customers.
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We cannot not have a President. Ranked choice voting would be a more practical reform.
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Unless he withdrew the money, he didn't steal anything.
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As an atheist growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family, I learned a long time ago that maintaining relationships required tact and self-restraint. That practice makes it easy to also maintain friendships across political divides. But
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I'm sure that's what the industry would argue. However, the insurance offered does not cover theft, damage due to rodents, mold, or water damage. I imagine these are the cause of the vast majority of losses to self-storage tenants
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Hand signals can be used in a pinch.
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Someone calculated they expect to spend a total of around 5 minutes over their entire life studying each new Anki card. That's not such a high bar for inclusion. Spaced repetition is very efficient. Of course, it's still not reaso
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This may be a silly question, but how do you intend to battle disinformation with yt-dl?
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Ask me in a few months.
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Things we wouldn't have without government intervention in the free market: NHS, public libraries, Downton Abbey, the internet, neighborhood fire departments, public roads, national parks, trust busting, regulated utilities, Channel 4&

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