physicalist

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by physicalist 10y ago
The reason for this poem is also the reason for the restrictions on speech in Germany. Go figure. Also, the US has been morphing into an suthoritarian state for quite a while. What is not the freedom of white affluent males is under constan
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by physicalist 10y ago
Hit piece? PewDiePie was effectively normalizing Nazi propaganda, for whatever reason. He should stop whining and admit that he has only himsrlf to blame. PewDiePie might not be racist, but he certainly is a spoiled brat who has no idea tha
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by physicalist 10y ago
You want even more partisanship? bc that would be the logical outcome.
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by physicalist 10y ago
Low information voter detected.
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by physicalist 10y ago
There can be no such evidence because there is no such thing as a "veil of ignorance". You are fully aware of your social status. It seems likely that this knowledge informs your values.
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by physicalist 10y ago
No. The topic has simply been ceded to a subset of philosophers who fill large volumes that still don't manage to say more about this topic than you do. One big problem is that your thought experiments are designed specifically to make
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by physicalist 10y ago
Your proposal is comparable to saying that checks and balances are not needed in a democracy, politicians just need to govern "right". This is about incentivising scientists to do the right thing instead of merely demanding it, li
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by physicalist 10y ago
Nazi Germany was Christian, very much so (There were also fringe pagan elements, yes). Atheists were persecuted under Hitler. Soviet Russia didn't kill anyone in the name of atheism. Atheism isn't an ideology, only the lack of a c
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by physicalist 10y ago
Just look at any recent Android phone. Font rendering is basically solved, all it took was making displays dense enough. What you are talking about is legacy software that doesn't scale properly.
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by physicalist 10y ago
First world problems never get old! :-D
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by physicalist 10y ago
The elite in London is still there, still the ruling class. what really did the elderly achieve?
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by physicalist 10y ago
When I see a stray ) like that, I certainly don't think smiley.
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by physicalist 10y ago
I can't agree. The design of old was hideous and didn't age well. It would look incredibly dated today.
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by physicalist 10y ago
Russia made one big "mistake" after 1992: "privatizing" the public sector by "gifting" enterprises to friends of Yeltsin. You could of course call this redistribution of wealth, but that's not what anyone
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by physicalist 10y ago
I don't see how russia proves anything. to me, what didn't work wasn't wealth redistribution, but planned economy. And planned economy has become mire viable since then, thanks to computers.
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by physicalist 10y ago
...but in the world of software, everyone wants programs that work better. The very rich have no short term interest in a system that's hard to game. Therefore they're going to use their considerable influence to prevent just that
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by physicalist 10y ago
I'm not going to read that :-D
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by physicalist 10y ago
Let's replace philosophy with medicine and the BS becomes apparent. So called Non-western philosophy is often a misnomer - it's actually religion.