jeliotj

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by jeliotj 4y ago
No, I meant what I said exactly. The product might be a good; that can be debated. But the action itself is not intrinsically good. What makes an action good? It always or necessarily produces good things. Very few actions are good in them
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by jeliotj 4y ago
I've always found Stephen Wolfram's thoughts to be overly self indulgent, and this is no exception. But it is illuminating since it reveals what I most loathe: the productive life. Being productive is not a good. It leads to wanti
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by jeliotj 4y ago
Is there another way than language to represent ideas?
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by jeliotj 5y ago
US: Montana
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by jeliotj 5y ago
Do humans have to figure out the Truth for it to exist? Words cannot mean nothing or they would not be used. A word has meaning. That is what a word is.
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by jeliotj 5y ago
I mostly disagree with this dis on dream work: "And if we simply stopped, it might be possible to make ourselves a much more reasonable set of promises: for instance, to create an “economy” that lets us actually take care of the people
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by jeliotj 5y ago
The so called "dream work" of doing something for its own sake is the highest form of work, and the most human
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by jeliotj 5y ago
"Romantic", as a noun for a person who has an idealized view of reality, especially one that has passed.
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by jeliotj 5y ago
Advertising is, in a sense, lying. The question of advertisers has always been, how do I engage a person with my product in a way that seems natural to him/her, i.e. so that he/she doesn't see the lie. Necessities don'
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by jeliotj 7y ago
Philosophy is precisely what is needed to question what we mean by progress. I think the interpretation of what Plato meant is an eternally foundational question for one who seeks to know.
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by jeliotj 7y ago
You're correct, I appreciate you noting that.
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by jeliotj 7y ago
It begs the question of what philosophy is. If it is "love of wisdom", as the Ancient Greeks suggested, then it seeks to know all things. That is, it seeks knowledge of what is, not of what is most likely, which is the domain of
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by jeliotj 7y ago
This is an acceptable tutorial but it could use a bit of editing to make the English more idiomatic. Also, except for the bit on plugins, I don't think it adds to or simplifies the man page.