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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
Thanks for being so charitable. It is not a defense. I explicitly said it was still terrible. It was a factual correction. You cannot accuse those guilty of wrongdoing of things they did not commit. That is still unjust. If you don't
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
Isn't that kind of the pope's point? That whether AI serves humanity or tyrannical interests is up to us?
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
What point are you trying to make here, because your post is all over the place and never really goes anywhere. The pope is not claiming utopia is possible. He is reminding the world of its moral duties within this scope. "Capitalism&q
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
So is the Church what ? That the Church must serve humanity or that it is the "powerful few" as some here are saying? In the first case, I claim that it has and that it does. I'm not sure how you can credibly claim otherwise
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
These arrangements lean into "third way" and distributist economics. You might find John Médaille of interest. He's written some books[0] about the subject, some articles[1], and given a talk at Google[2]. In the US, the Amer
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
> People would equally reject Netflix, if Netflix fooated the idea of replacing the subscription model with pay-per-view micropayments. You sure about that? Something like over half of Netflix viewers believe their subscription isn'
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
> And what does “progressing” mean, exactly? Indeed. This is characteristic of a reflexive and unthinking Progressivism that presumes the reality of some kind of nebulous, arbitrary, and ill-defined "progress", but very often d
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
Yes, and this immortality is attributed to the immateriality of the intellectual faculties. According to this view, you can think of human death as more of an amputation of the body from the totality of the spiritual-bodily composite. Bodil
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
Indeed, the Cartesian position is not the Catholic position and, in fact, directly contradicts the Catholic position. The soul , according to an Aristotelian-Thomistic understanding, is the form of a living thing. Form is what makes a th
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
> Sometimes I feel people lose sight of this original intention, be it unintentional or otherwise. It's more than a matter of losing sight. This is endemic to liberal hyperindividualism which places the individual and "consumer
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
I failed to mention a great recent English language resource on the topic, namely, Ed Feser's "Immortal Souls" [0]. For broader philosophy of science context, his recent "Aristotle's Revenge" [1] will serve as
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
Some good reminders in this article. However, while I, too, reject Cartesian dualism, some of the claims of the author need correction... "Many felt confounded or degraded by the idea of sharing a family tree with donkeys. [...] Amid
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
Possibly psychosis. Possibly just serious ignorance and mob mentality. Leadership is supposed to be phlegmatic and measured; instead, we are saddled with hysterical hotheads. (Of course, when they are phlegmatic and chasing fads, then it do
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
Sounds like he’s just burnt out.
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I don't know the specific cause. However, as such, it is a moral issue, not a religious one per se . Pornography is abusive and incredibly damaging to individuals and society and thus the common good. It is entirely reasonable even fo
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
> I've never found a satisfactory explanation You don't find better nutrition and sexual selection for height satisfactory? > value depends on context (and is generally made up). Value is not relative. It is objective, ontol
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
I would say, that on the whole, this has to do with habituated impulse control and self-restraint. Classical writers speak of this as well, things like how inordinate and undisciplined appetites (not just for food, mind you; sex, too, and u
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
But that's sort of my point: you're not walking the walk of others. You are a solo dev. You are working on a project that can be developed by a solo dev, both in terms of size and time frames. It is a greenfield project, so you
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
The amount of buffoonery on the US side is staggering. 1. Iran is always 2 weeks away from having nuclear missiles. 2. Iran's military capability is destroyed. 3. If Iran had nuclear warheads, it could successfully deploy them against
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
> where philosophy is often intertwined with psychology, politics, sociology To be fair, these - and pretty much anything - have philosophical roots. And philosophy is omnivorous. Of course, philosophy in the highest and most rarified se
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
Maybe I'm weird, but my usage has been very conservative. As in, I treat the LLM like a junior dev that I have to micromanage and handhold. I am terrified of allowing these things to complete tasks end-to-end with nothing intervening.
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
"For it seems that the struggle, the uncertainty, the incompleteness, they all might be the central theme of humanism, perhaps even its very essence." Uncertainty and incompleteness are only meaningful in relation to certainty and
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
The things you list as ostensibly different from consumerism are for the most part consequences and manifestations of consumerism. They are downstream from the consumerist ethos. So these are superficial distinctions. Inquire into the cause
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
That's a little simplistic and lacking in nuance. > To get beyond being a hack, you need to understand the entire stack, including the code that you didn't write, including both libraries, frameworks and the OS, and including t
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by lo_zamoyski 5mo ago
By analogy, you can imagine a mid-century human computer shouting "I will never use computing machines to perform numerical calculations! I must perform every addition by hand!" You can even imagine a commune forming around "
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by lo_zamoyski 6mo ago
That's because the shocks came from the domestic US market!
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> Stanislaus II Augustus was a Russian tool This is an ahistorical view lacking nuance. Stanislaus found himself in an impossible situation. He was not the Russian pawn you uncharitably make him out to be. Rather, he often used his posit
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by lo_zamoyski 6mo ago
But this was largely the particular cause in this case... The strong domestic market insulated the economy from international economic shocks.
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> IIRC Polish mathematicians were close to being the world's best prior to WWII That's right. The Lwów-Warsaw School, the Warsaw Schools, the Kraków School, and so on were big during the interbellum. There was a good deal of ac
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by lo_zamoyski 6mo ago
Indeed. People also like status. If consumerism ties status to consumption, then children constrain that consumption and thus constrain status. It also used to be that having a large family was a source of honor. Today, it makes people unco

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