techno_tsar

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by techno_tsar 3y ago
You’re making a lot of criticisms, but you haven’t shown me why what I’ve said is extremely subjective, or why it’s an emotional argument. First of all, it is obvious that society isn’t already leftist. If you’re citing “many quarters of so
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
> always felt that just means it's poorly defined. No, it just means that it’s qualitative. Why would qualitative descriptions of entities mean it’s poorly defined? Take for example in philosophy of mind where qualitative descriptio
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
I just read the feminist technoscience article and I found it very interesting and can imagine it being very relevant to some people. The ARPANET thing is actually an interesting example, because the Department of Defense (war) is very obvi
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
The strong leftward tilt is because part of the political ideology of the left is that society is not currently already leftist (it obviously isn’t — we live in a capitalist world) and critical theorists analyze our society under the histor
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
Really? Using the fact that someone put pronouns in their profile is a bad faith move? Your account is literally a throwaway. Calling these twin studies as settled science is the most bad faith move here, since the chief problem of this sec
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
I put relativism is scare quotes because Continental philosophy doesn't espouse relativism, but is often accused of it. It does espouse a cynicism for structuralism and has a penchant for scientific anti-realism, but both those views (
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
The analytic/continental split happened around the 19th century. Both traditions read more or less the same thinkers in Western philosophy (e.g. Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, the Enlightenment Rationalists, the Enlightenment Em
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
Your intellectual humility is refreshing. Most of these discussions devolve into very obvious cases of Dunning-Kruger effect.
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
You should read all of Ned Block's piece. It's very good. He is not just dismissing your view as "extreme geneticism". He literally explains how fallacious it is to conflate heritability with genetic determination. Using
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
As someone who has studied in the analytic tradition, I think it's wildly uncharitable to consider Continental philosophy a disease. A lot of it is very poorly written, but extremely illuminating. Good thinking is humble and prudent, t
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by techno_tsar 3y ago
Careful here. STEM definitely requires critical thinking, but crtical thinking is not just 'formal proofs', which is only useful when you're dealing with problems that are already obviously formalizable. This is not the case
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
There has been a turn in consciousness research in the last in the decade towards some kind of panpsychism for precisely your sentiment: a completed physics should also be a completed phenomenology. David Chalmers has written extensively an
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
I would consider the reverse (that mathematics is constructed) as just as nonsensical. One could argue that if mathematics were constructed, we are essentially taking on faith that mathematical properties in the physical universe just so ha
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
In addition to this, Plato is worth reading because he is still relevant and his work outlined the agenda of huge swathes of western philosophy, which undeniably influences our scientific paradigm and political worldviews. I have not yet re
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
I believe that "platonism" in this article refers to mathematical platonism , i.e. the view that mathematical entities actually exist, as opposed to mathematical formalism, i.e. the view that mathematical entities are made up. h
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
Deeply selfish? There are literally millions and millions of extremely wealthy people who would spend that amount doing nothing, buying a yacht, their 20th property, or do actual terrible things. I don’t resent them for burning their money.
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
Reminds me of Debord’s idea of the spectacle and Baudrillard’s simulation. The vicious cycle of art imitating life and life imitating art is ever accelerating with technology that gets better at beaming content into our brains to the point
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
This is about regulatory changes from the UK government.
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
Interestingly, I think a strong externalist would argue that a human being raised in a featureless box could not produce text with semantic value to the people outside the box. One upshot of semantic externalism are brain in vat type argume
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
This reminds me of the concept of semantic internalism vs. externalism, which most comments here seem to be misunderstanding. Most of the critiques of the view that AI art is still meaningful is based on either a hypothesis or empirical tes
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
I was googling 'nimber' and 'dogot' because I thought it was some obscure but extremely relevant concept that I didn't know about.
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
It's extremely optimistic to think that 'knobs' for the current system 1) exist, 2) are controllable, and 3) knowable. This is such an abstract oversimplification of empirical reality. The sentiment that capitalism is an engi
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
What's the gatekeeping? The biggest gatekeeping is Spotify's editorial system. No one is judging you on your music tastes, so you can stop with the projection and calling people 'snobs'. The problem is with artists not g
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
I work in the industry, so I've watched Spotify's editorial playlists go from great to terrible, with increasing amounts of payola, nepotism, and corporate influence, leading to a slow homogenization of music culture. Six or seven
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
Economies of scale will push the cost down over time. Meanwhile, meat continues to receive significant government subsidies. If we had to pay the actual cost of meat (not even including a tax on the externalities from its environmental cost
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by techno_tsar 4y ago
Author is projecting. Dismissing social science as a hindrance to intellectual curiosity while stating that Karl Poppper's falsificationism is the foundation of modern science is extremely ironic. Being intellectually curious means cha