objectivistbrit

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by objectivistbrit 10y ago
Downvote wasn't mine. I upvoted you to cancel it out. But thanks for dishonestly implying I'm racist (thereby proving my point), when my entire comment was on economic issues. By integration I mean political integration. I think v
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by objectivistbrit 10y ago
I'm pro-economic liberty and voted for Brexit. Every analysis like this has tunnel vision: yes, the free trade opened up by the EU brought prosperity to an entire continent. Had we been voting for the 1970s era EEC, I'd have gladl
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by objectivistbrit 10y ago
You're doing what's typical for people trained in modern philosophy when debating online, i.e. complaining that I didn't write a full philosophical treatise in one comment. E.g., I didn't go into details of my view on Lo
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by objectivistbrit 10y ago
"In a bizarrely unfair real society arguing that you have the right to maximally leverage whatever value you your dad and your grandpa managed to drag away and coral seems greedy and disingenuous." You're arguing against aris
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by objectivistbrit 10y ago
Enlightenment thinkers like Adam Smith and John Locke were hugely important historically in making the case for liberty. However, they were still products of their time and retain the influences of Christian ethics and Humean skepticism. Ad
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by objectivistbrit 10y ago
Interesting to meet an effective altruist here. I was somewhat involved in EA for a while and even interned at an EA org, but after reading up a bunch of different philosophies the one which I found most consistent with reality was -- perha
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by objectivistbrit 10y ago
This is why I'm an Objectivist - it's the only philosophy which gives a moral argument for property rights. (Most libertarian and free-market thinkers argue on pragmatic grounds, which means they are willing to compromise in the m
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by objectivistbrit 10y ago
"Are you saying you do ascribe to this position, that your only motivation to work is to get more money (and by extension luxuries) than everyone else has?" No. I never said anything like that, and you are arguing dishonestly. (Fo
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by objectivistbrit 10y ago
"You'd need a central bureacracy [which is the problem]" It's more than a problem - you couldn't implement such a system without a totalitarian state. "It's a source of sadness for me" It's a sou
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by objectivistbrit 10y ago
I would go further. My clients' money is their money. As it's their money, they can do what they want with it. If they choose to give it to me, it's now my money. Similarly, if you have a job, the money your employer gives yo
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Truckers Forum: What do you think of self-driving trucks?(thetruckersreport.com)
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by objectivistbrit 10y ago
If wealth and power are being concentrated anywhere, it's in the hands of the state: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/include/usgs_chartSp03t....
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
How's life as a tech guy in Singapore? I'm thinking of relocating there. (I've lived in Hong Kong and China, so I'm not an Asia noob, but Singapore seemed better as a long-term place to settle).
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
I didn't read the whole thing ('tis long) but I think I got the gist from skimming it. One main point is that the US government was meant to be a purely voluntary contract between men: "The Constitution not only binds nobody
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
In ethics, one must begin by asking: What are values? Why does man need them? “Value” is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. The concept “value” is not a primary; it presupposes an answer to the question: of value to whom and for
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
There's a community of people online who like squashing logical fallacies. Thing is, articles like this represent a more subtle and high-level form of disinformation than the simply fallacies such people are trained to spot. One aspect
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
This sounds a little like someone I used to know. Can you say more about how her personality came to light? Any little red flags your friend initially tried to ignore?
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I found messages by my wife telling her friends about our sex life(theguardian.com)
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A Guaranteed Minimum Income for New Zealand [pdf](igps.victoria.ac.nz)
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
Or New Zealand's research into the feasibility of implementing UBI: http://igps.victoria.ac.nz/WelfareWorkingGroup/Downloads/Wor... Key takeaways: "An income of $300 per week is just over the average (me
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
Your theory is essentially Marxist (capital colluding to hold down the workers), and like all Marxist theories, falls apart when applied to reality. Saying things like the homeless 'serve a function' for corporations to 'keep
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
Whether the mind is equivalent to the brain is an open question. If someone built an artificial mind, that would massively raise my belief in the possibility that the mind is purely physical. But I hold that this is vastly more difficult th
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
Most aren't, but some are. You give up something priceless if you adjust to fit in -- and though it's hard not to, you don't need to.
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
I wasn't commenting on the word choice. I was commenting on the focus on the financial drawbacks of startups, when the focus should be on how they stifle good work.
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
> So the takeaway is always send less words as you don't know on what device the recipient will read it. The real takeaway is to learn to judge the character of the people you meet, and not to waste time with vapid morons who are in
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
I've been browsing HN since 2009 and there's always been articles like this. Hell, if you read pg's old essays, he often took a strong pro-bootstrapping, anti-funding tone. The problem with articles like this is they call s
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
Absolutely. "Alex"'s mistake was not the content of his message, but in sending any message at all. What value could there be in a relationship with such a vapid creature?
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
So DNA didn't store any information until a conscious human learned how to read it? It didn't. DNA is simply a complex structure, which, placed within another complex structure (a cell, containing appropriate amino acids),
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
An actual Chinese Room would be unimaginably vast - whole planets, solar systems, devoted to the knowledge we hold implicitly. To illustrate - imagine you give the room (in Chinese) the text of Lord of the Rings, and then ask it which membe
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by objectivistbrit 11y ago
Indeed. That’s the content of consciousness, and it’s no longer a fundamental mystery. It’s information, and we know how to build computers that process information. The fundamental error here is trying to explain consciousness

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