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by jeromebaek 8y ago
> speech is transmitted by the movement of air molecules Under this definition of "speech" English, which I understand, and Chinese, which I don't, would have the same effect on me. But of course they don't. When some
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
Don't be silly. The actual harm must be systematic, unescapable, and perpetuated over a power imbalance over a long period of time. Are any of those conditions satisfied in this case? No.
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
"The idea that anything that causes harm is violence is downright silly" When something is "silly", this is an important sensation you should grasp at, not dismiss, because silliness is nothing but a reveal of your inner
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
Any reasonable definition of "actual violence" should concern harm done to the body . Countless studies show that abusive speech, in fact, harms the body in profound and sometimes irrevocable ways. The fallacy you are committin
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When Is Speech Violence?(daily.jstor.org)
2 points by jeromebaek 8y ago|8 comments
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
Same old tired argument. Free speech is sacred, we are regressing to the middle ages, bu-but the Enlightenment! , etc. Read some Wittgenstein for a change: https://daily.jstor.org/wittgenstein-whether-speech-violence... &q
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
I think one of the most glaring differences between ancient East Asian societies and Western societies is trials and the court. To the best of my knowledge no East Asian society (or for that matter, any society outside Europe) had anything
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
Great read.
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Tech Workers Coalition(techworkerscoalition.org)
1 points by jeromebaek 8y ago|0 comments
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
From the book the article references, the Alchemy of Race and Rights, Harvard Press: "Some time ago, Peter Gabel and I taught a contracts class together. (He was one of the first to bring critical theory to legal analysis· and so is co
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
Interesting this points out "safe spaces" as part of the infantilzation, when in fact it seems that safe spaces are one of the few things that counter infantilization of Western culture. In my opinion, the primary reason Western
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
Notice the direct quote says "don't", not "wouldn't". Obviously they "don't" at the moment, because they're probably building it right now. Doesn't mean they "wouldn't" i
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
If you read "Africa, Asia and the History of Philosophy" you'll see how this whole story of "Ancient Greeks were great philosophers but then their knowledge was buried during the Dark Ages by Muslim conquerors and when t
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
Among the many bad arguments this article makes, the most glaring to me is assuming that the "distilled version" of Newton is superior to his original works. Little known fact: Newton had profound insights in the philosophy of sci
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
The world is certainly mad, and this is a good post. What was the article that prompted this post? The link is broken.
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
Well, obviously, the shortest program that outputs "0" is "0". And the shortest program that outputs "1" is "1". We're only interested in the general case, not specific cases. Sometimes I think t
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
Seems like a problem for philosophy of language... When we say "it cannot find the best pattern", what does this mean? 1. We assume "the best pattern" exists . But what do we mean here by "exists"? If somethin