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"Black-rim glasses" is short hand for "hipsters", presumably meaning here well-educated liberal arts majors and aspirational future intelligentsia members.
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WikiLeaks writes: "Most of our critics have 3 (((brackets))) around their names... Tribalist symbol for establishment climbers?" Tribalist here in the sense of those who are complicit with In-Group/Out-Group dynamics [1]. Kno
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And then, inexplicably, the WikiLeaks official Twitter account also dove straight for naked anti-Semitism. The author, Emma Ellis, has no comprehension of the tweet in question. Understanding the background could have prevented this: 1. N
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Streamleap / CloudStream / Flyhop / SkipEcho / Fibereal / Fiberate / Fiberising / Fiberide / Surefire Fiber / SureFiber / Foolproof / Strongfiber / Woven / Verifiber / bu
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From https://twitter.com/sacca/status/749260339762442240 , Garrison Keillor gave the following letter to each attendee of his last A Prairie Home Companion: Dear Friends, I come from serious taciturn people and g
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From an earlier submission ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546087 ) another factor that gives NPR programs a different feel than your average live radio interview is a large amount of careful editing, described by On
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Counter Culture Coffee has a video depicting the "brew hot, chill instantly" method (admittedly somewhat self-explanatory as merely brewing over ice) described in the article: https://counterculturecoffee.com/learn
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That wasn't why I left and I agree that Buddhism does not argue that suffering is bad. After being asked about monks ignoring Precepts like the first one a Zen priest is said to have said to Gary Snyder "A Zen man should be able t
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> there's still yet no factual…from which they should Exactly, except not 'factual' but no valid reasoning to do so. From the essay: "For there is no such Finis Ultimus [utmost aim] nor Summum Bonum [greatest good] a
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As I mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11810561 I'm very familiar with the Zen perspective, holding it for about 8 years (brought on by the invasion of Iraq actually). Encountering suffering made me bel
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> We can look at facts Sentient things happening to hold values cannot tell us if these values are objectively the case. > It could never be demonstrated, since no matter how far and wide you look, there could be a counter-example lu
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No, that's not a conditional. Look into what is meant by a 'moral fact'.
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> For instance, the fact that we can choose our own values gives us values. When examining what is actually the case rather than only observing what humans happen to think, observations like this aren't able to assist us in making
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A significant point is that starting with values, as you propose, is a departure from Empiricism. We have no scientifically-accepted evidence such a theorized value exists and (as you know) what Hume shows with his Facts-Values gap is that
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You are very welcome!
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> Any mind which could make such an assertion implicitly assumes there is value in making such a statement, and thus implicitly assumes whatever existential values are necessary to support a world where such assertions are possible. Is-
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Using cold Reason to examine what is actually True in the universe, we cannot tenably begin by assuming we must survive. In short, Moral Realism holds that moral properties exist mind-independently and Moral Anti-Realism denies this saying
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There is a real dichotomy between morality being either "objective and real" (this in metaethics is termed Moral Realism) or "invented delusions that can be ignored" (this is termed Moral Nonrealism). Inside Moral Nonrea
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> Hume is also susceptible to his own problem If one gave as one's reason for seeking truth "humans sometimes happen to seek truth" you are correct, this would be an invalid reason because of the Is-Ought limitation. That
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Precisely.
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Morality is the differentiation of actions proper and improper; generally defined 'morals' is that language that contains imperatives: what humans should do (as sentences, called 'norms'). When we wonder why there seems
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> Another phrasing might be, 'useful social constructs.'…there's no claim that they are objective You can call the social constructs whatever you like and no one is foolish enough to deny their utility. But as you note, t
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> You capitalize "truth" in other comments and say we should seek it yet you don't realize this endeavor is also prone to the is-ought problem. Because man seeks truth, does that mean he should morally seek it? You'r
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Nope. From the abstract "What preferences or moral values should one expect evolution to favor?…We show that certain moral preferences…are evolutionarily stable. In particular, selfishness is evolutionarily unstable…We also establish t
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I grew up Christian (of sorts) and drifted away from the belief. Like you write, it felt like a convenient lie. I was convinced it was a myth invented by humans to bring themselves comfort. Observing human suffering seemed to me to be proo
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Ah, whoops. Humans having/employing cognition and reasoning are likely necessitated by us existing. What Hume/Dawkins/I are saying is that human survival/existence is not necessitated by Reason, which is cold and indiffe
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Not a fallacy.
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Retra, paraphrased, reasons "Moral facts exist because decision-making structures exist which are necessary for moral reasoning and this reasoning in turn is necessitated for our very existence". This, shorter, amounts to "Mo
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>> What you and Hume…don't understand is the reach of science, experience and empirical testing I'm familiar with Sam Harris' argument. We have measured levels of health, pain response, serotonin, dopamine, and various
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Not at all my intent to skirt the issue. Slavery is objectively wrong and has always been wrong. The entire Christian reason is human freedom and liberty to captives. Christianity is what ended slavery and additionally, without it or apart

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