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by routerl 5y ago
Quick summary of how remarkable this is: Fernando Pessoa invented characters for his poetry. The characters are not in his poems, but are the writers of the poems. Alvaro de Campos is one of them. These characters are incredibly well-develo
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by routerl 6y ago
This was a great read, thanks!
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Thanks for that comment, I largely agree. Let me try to summarize it: Old money wants subjects, new money wants worshippers.
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by routerl 6y ago
> The Western world decided... It's not so simple[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
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by routerl 6y ago
I agree completely, and have never understood people who seem to think this would never happen to them. The OP's point is easily generalizable to so many domains; anyone who has written enough commercial software has seen bugs like the
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by routerl 6y ago
"Scientism" is a pretty common term for this. I.e. superficially coating arguments in a veneer of rigor and data, for the sake of riding on the epistemic prestige of empirical science.
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I'll also recommend the actual talking to strangers meetups, though I assume they're on hold due to plague.
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(a) Former UK Green Party equality spokesperson and candidate, current Reddit administrator (read: employee not volunteer). (b) While a candidate for the UK Green Party, she employed her father as campaign manager ("election agent&quot
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by routerl 6y ago
I'm completely with you on that one, but trying to give the benefit of the doubt: there is a meaning of "reserve" that is very close to "preserve", which does make sense in that sentence, although it is pretty unusu
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"Mathematical induction" is a deductive proof technique with an unfortunately confusing name, but unrelated to the inductive reasoning of empirical science.
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by routerl 6y ago
This is wonderful and I will steal it. Thank you :)
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You're really just arguing against an imagined opponent, at this point. > Animism is a philosophy btw. And it’s still a philosophy to this very day. No it isn't. I'm talking about professional philosophers. > it is a sc
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by routerl 6y ago
> you have the philosophy of animism sitting side by side with metaphysics as if there’s some meta category that encapsulates the two. Sorry, what are you referring to? Where do these things sit side by side? > Yeah I can meta the ent
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by routerl 6y ago
> Few would call mathematics an art, though, or would they? I'm not sure. Many would, precisely because it is not empirical, as indicated by the fact that mathematics departments are often in Arts faculties. As Sir Michael Atiyah pu
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by routerl 6y ago
> Many philosophers in fact claim that science is a just sub field of philosophy and that philosophy is “above” it. You've really totally misunderstood what they were describing. Metaphysics is "above" physics because it i
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There are mental health doctors as well.
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by routerl 6y ago
There's a thin line between cult and religion, and a lot of it has to do with institutional age. Although, yeah, there are a lot of christian, and buddhist for that matter, cults. Often these do end up breaching legal boundaries, as I&
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by routerl 6y ago
> his apparent rigorousness is not at all scientific. It is more scientific than Galileo, just less empirical. Spinoza's contributions to thought lie on the logic axis, not the empirical axis. That didn't really get going until
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by routerl 6y ago
There's something to be said for the notion that, in the modern world, anyone who is a "professional philosopher" is just incapable of doing the kind of "here's how you should live" work that dominates early We
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by routerl 6y ago
> Google being paid based on increases in property taxes... ... isn't what the article or Alphabet were talking about. They were discussing being paid property taxes, period, not simply taking the property tax delta caused by their
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by routerl 6y ago
He did not make that up. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/15/alphabets-sidewalk-labs-want...
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by routerl 6y ago
Of course it does. There are many, many cities by the water. Oh, his boat couldn't be moved? Is that somehow an imposition on him by the city, or simply lack of forethought? This guy put his own back against a wall.
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by routerl 6y ago
You're right. But you're missing an argument about why Toronto should be the one to take that hit.
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The point is to improve our city and its residents' quality of life, actually. Edit for clarity: This was a project _of the city of Toronto_. It is _only incidentally_ an Alphabet project _as well_. The City of Toronto has no fiduciary
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It's hilarious for me to see > Toronto was left without a good restaurant on the water which should actually be > The business owner was either unwilling or incapable of making his business succeed.
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Sorry, but the politicians were largely on Google's side, sharing your absolutely ignorant enthusiasm. It took a massive, years-long grassroots campaign of engineers, residents, security researchers, urban planners, ethicists, etc etc,
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by routerl 6y ago
I couldn't justify buying stadia, until I realized that the bundle (controller plus Chromecast ultra) is comparably priced to an Xbox controller and Roku. Then it became an easy decision, and showed me how unattractive the actual game
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by routerl 6y ago
I have the same question, but think we can answer it by reasoning. If it could be purchased for $0, only the first stock would cost $0, and the price would then rise, but how would we calculate the price increase for a stock purchased at $0
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I'd go farther and admit something about myself, which I suspect is common: sometimes I'm in group A and sometimes I'm in group B. This is directly related to whether I'm working on something I consider valuable. In othe
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"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

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