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by keane 12y ago
> Utilitarianism -- and many others -- are equally possible. You misunderstand the dichotomy. This is not about what we can do, humans can delude themselves all the time. The question is about what is logically consistent. "That whi
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by keane 12y ago
Sam Harris simply ignores the Is-Ought problem like most Utilitarians. See this comment to understand his error(s): http://www.project-reason.org/newsfeed/item/moral_confusion_...
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by keane 12y ago
>Morals are more than made up rules because if we're just atoms, they have come about through evolution. No one contests that if all is material we have developed rules that allow us to survive. The question is: Do our rules refer t
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by keane 12y ago
This is where the Is-Ought problem comes in. We are unable to make an observation about the empirical universe ("Humans have value to humans") and then conclude an objective value statement from it ("Therefore humans should
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by keane 12y ago
Not really. First off, Nihilism does not deny that we or the universe exist but instead "Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless". In Buddhism, both good and evil has no real existence, being part of the illusory world
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by keane 12y ago
The goal of Zen and all Buddhism is to achieve "Enlightenment", a state of mind where one fully internalises the rather Daoist idea (remember the Yin Yang) that God does not exist and due to this Good and Evil are not different at
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by keane 12y ago
If the world is material (natural) only, then the maxim of Hitchens and Sagan applies: "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence". You assert humans have value. There is no empirical evidence
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by keane 12y ago
This would give you Nihilism. Theism disagrees.
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by keane 12y ago
No, AnimalMuppet is correct. We are unable to value the survival of mankind as objectively good, as we have no empirical evidence to do so (more accurately: we cannot infer an Ought from an Is). See this for more on why: http://l
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by keane 12y ago
It's not exactly a neutral source. I would neither trust drug proponents for the advice or take the risk, for that matter.
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by keane 12y ago
This book was rejected for good reasons: it is a late and unhistorical production of a fringe Gnostic sect featuring unbiblical beliefs. https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/1266-is-the-gospel...
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by keane 12y ago
Location: Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes and/or travel Technologies: UI/UX, HTML (semantic/Schema.org/indie web/etc), CSS (SASS/LESS), QA, photography Résumé: http:&#x2F
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by keane 12y ago
>China has been running the world's largest and most successful eugenics program for more than thirty years From what I know about eugenics programs this is horrible! You have my attention! >A more mature response would be… askin
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by keane 12y ago
Also thefacebook.com circa 2005/2006
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Can Nature Videos Calm Prisoners in Solitary?(medium.com)
2 points by keane 12y ago|0 comments
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William Eubank used ingenuity to get sci-fi film 'The Signal' made(latimes.com)
11 points by keane 12y ago|1 comments
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by keane 12y ago
The text was rather small to read and the OCR'd text at the Internet Archive had errors so I've put up a cleaned up text version. http://liamk.org/disneyland/
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by keane 12y ago
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the format! I think I'm like you, stopping on numerous paragraphs to allow those sentences to unlock something or bring something to mind. And ultimately, I wish that more articles included definiti
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by keane 12y ago
That was partially my intent, so thank you! The whole thing was done in a few hours--almost exclusively research--so not saying this is a great project or anything but here are some ideas to skim. The inspiration? A recent article questione
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The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved (1970)(liamk.org)
107 points by keane 12y ago|60 comments
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by keane 13y ago
I like the idea but search on YouTube seems to be so inaccurate I'm not sure if it would work nearly as well. I'm having trouble thinking of how to improve scInstant as it is--it's so pared down and fast and just works! Great
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by keane 14y ago
While http://www.thx.com/trailers/ doesn't work, there are THX trailers at http://www.thx.com/consumer/movies/
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Smashing Magazine: My Website Design Was Stolen, Now What?(smashingmagazine.com)
1 points by keane 15y ago|0 comments
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by keane 15y ago
This is somewhat similar to Google Will Eat Itself, a project that has used Google Ad revenue to automatically purchase shares of Google. They currently own about $500k worth of Google and estimate owning the entire company in 200m years. S
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by keane 15y ago
The site http://www.undrln.com/ used to look like Hacker News except I think their color was yellow. It featured user-submitted links/articles and voting. It looks like they have significantly changed the site's format though.
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by keane 15y ago
Maybe Switzerland's .ch/.li - info at https://www.nic.ch/reg/index/view.html?lid=en You might note that .ch/.li is used by a number of controversial sites at the moment such as: 1channel (.ch) Anonops IRC (.li, also .lc) Encyclopæ
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Kevin Rose & Tim Ferriss discuss Oink, Trippy, Steve Jobs on latest Random Show(rndshw.com)
1 points by keane 15y ago|0 comments
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by keane 15y ago
The Random Show has been appearing on the various blogs of Tim Ferriss, Kevin Rose, and Glenn McElhose for a while now but there didn't seem to be a uniform list of all episodes (even Glenn's Vimeo account is missing at least one of the epi
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Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss discuss startups, VCs, apps and more (16 episodes)(rndshw.com)
1 points by keane 15y ago|1 comments
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by keane 15y ago
The use of italic Adobe Caslon Pro (from Typekit) gives this site a clean look that fits with the video's visual style and the project's general theme. I know that Wyld, based on Caslon, is available for "private purpose" with TTFs at http

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