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by tomlock 11y ago
I think then that the author has illustrated the "ills" of postmodernism through their own example, just in their own philosophy? So their criticism of postmodernism is also a criticism of their criticism of postmodernism! lol!
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by tomlock 11y ago
You're right, I am confused. The concept of there being a central authority that determines what is English, what is a dialect of English, and what is pidgin, is ridiculous. Language is an ever-evolving construction with fuzzy edges
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by tomlock 11y ago
His argument in the paper linked by hug above is: >>Many of the philosophical doctrines purveyed by postmodernists have been roundly refuted, yet people continue to be taken in by a set of dishonest devices used in proselytizing for p
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by tomlock 11y ago
The author immediately leaps into critiques of the idea that "rationality cannot be an objective constraint on us". For rationality to be a wholly objective constraint on us, we need perfect interactions with it. The other name
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by tomlock 11y ago
This is a pretty confusing definition and argument. How does the author distinguish between Morality and "our beliefs about right and wrong"? The author seems to be appealing to universal objective truths, while waving away the
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by tomlock 11y ago
>>Think this way for a while, and you notice a key factor: old data usually isn’t very interesting. You’ll be much more interested in what your users are doing right now than what they were doing a year ago. Sure, spotting trends in h
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by tomlock 11y ago
No worries, I appreciated the question! I think it got downvoted because it is a question or thought that is posed quite a lot.
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by tomlock 11y ago
Yeah, I feel like I'm totally on the same page as you. Analytic philosophy always seemed like a bit of fun to me, but seemed to boil down to logic games that have as much application to the real world (as a simulation and explanation
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by tomlock 11y ago
I had a think about the people from Philosophy I kept track of and I can honestly say they are now predominantly upper-middle, unless they stuck to academia, which about 30% or so did, and obviously, are poor (as far as I know), and somewhe
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by tomlock 11y ago
This makes a heap of sense! I think though that we are on the same page with this, that there are a bunch of complexities that it is very tempting to simplify away in explanations of the differences between the fields.
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by tomlock 11y ago
Unfortunately I'm a filthy continental philosopher :D Cheers! Loved classical logic though.
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by tomlock 11y ago
I can't say because I haven't seen the numbers on this. Even though I've got a philosophy degree I really need some solid quantification before I'll believe claims like that. For instance, do engineering graduates that
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by tomlock 11y ago
I somehow comprehended it on the first go.
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by tomlock 11y ago
I really loved the engaged debate and discussion I got in undergraduate philosophy. Sounds like you didn't have the same experience :(
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by tomlock 11y ago
Interesting assumption, but it could be that the humanities are more engaging than STEM fields, so people are likely to convert to them, but not go the other way. Maybe people are more likely to be unwillingly driven in STEM, but more like
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by tomlock 11y ago
>>Humanities: where you don't realize you need to tell us what the y axis of the graph is to make your point, and then wonder why people aren't lining up to not learn anything. The y-axis was explained in the text! Did you
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by tomlock 11y ago
>>Basically, if your chosen major doesn't have a well-defined career path, (This includes biology, incidentally) you need to work harder and be even more proactive in figuring out where your next move is going to be. This bodes p
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by tomlock 11y ago
I went to University in Australia initially planning to study Biology. I took an introductory Philosophy course and I was hooked. I ended up completing my Bachelors and doing some postgrad work. I committed all the way - I had no other m
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by tomlock 11y ago
I totally agree, but having a bad platform hasn't stopped people trying to sell theirs to enterprise, afaik.
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by tomlock 11y ago
My theory is this is Apple's attempt to push people working in adtech towards Apple's Google-Analytics analogues. It is getting a bit ridiculous how bluntly Google (the incumbent), Apple (whoa we track mobiles really well) and Fac
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by tomlock 11y ago
>>He started to get angry with me and reply with things like “fuck you” and sometimes up to 8 texts in a row when I wouldn’t reply or would decline. Given the above section, does this situation sound "PC-heavy" to you? The
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by tomlock 11y ago
Flat-out the most useful resource in my Philosophy undergraduate work. Any new concept I encountered would be investigated on this website.
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by tomlock 11y ago
Hey! I found your work really useful. Thanks very much for your effort :) I look forward to your next project!
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by tomlock 11y ago
It is common sense to think that the "common sense" of 2000 years ago was wrong. It should be common sense to think that common sense today is also likely wrong. :) Oops.
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by tomlock 11y ago
I'm confused because there doesn't seem to be any connection between the paradoxical statement, "I do not believe in anything" and the statement "I do not believe in any gods." Since the statement is not a god
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by tomlock 11y ago
These paintings remind me of Louis Wain's work when he was mentally ill. Which makes me wonder, are these sophisticated neural nets mentally ill, and what would a course of therapy for them be like?
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by tomlock 11y ago
Agreed. I'm just surprised is all. I expected google to have bucked the corporate trend and have the "flying car" of login pages. I was wrong!
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by tomlock 11y ago
Totally agreed! I'm not criticizing, I was just a little surprised because of Google's reputation as an innovator. I also totally expect corporate tools to be static for long periods of time, so I'm also not surprised based
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by tomlock 11y ago
This is exactly what I thought immediately! Seems a bit long...
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by tomlock 11y ago
I thought there was already news that he's reported a battery pack was coming to analysts? Oh yeah: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/25/tesla-batt...

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