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On Laws and Gods(scholars-stage.blogspot.com)
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by traject_ 6y ago
The irony of the paradox of intolerance is that Popper defines it in the context of physically violent and irrational intolerance: "But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out t
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A Chinese Gazetteer of Foreign Lands: A new translation of Zhufan zhi Pt 1(1225)(storymaps.arcgis.com)
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by traject_ 7y ago
I thought that this excerpt from Andrew Yang's book was particularly thought provoking and also troubling: We say success in America is about hard work and character. It’s not really. Most of success today is about how good you are at
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The Problem Isn't the 'Merit,' It's the 'Ocracy'(scholars-stage.blogspot.com)
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by traject_ 8y ago
Wow, I didn't know that academia was getting this bad; what happened to letting the truth be debated a la the Socratic dialogue in the academia of all places!
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by traject_ 8y ago
Well, I think it may not just be Hebbian learning but likely Balanced Amplification learning [1] as well which propagates quite a bit faster. Promising paper came out recently echoing this phenomena globally with a model of visual perceptio
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by traject_ 9y ago
Is that really true? From what I've seen from paleoanthropology, the lumpers versus splitters war still rages fiercely - see Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis.
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by traject_ 10y ago
Enjoyable read but, as a sacrifice for being entertaining, it sometimes falls into the wayside of hasty sensationalist conclusions.
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by traject_ 11y ago
My only problem with that argument is , by that logic, wouldn't land containing a large deposit of oil or some natural resource be public property. The property given to the public would definitely benefit society as a whole.
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by traject_ 11y ago
I'm pretty sure the land I'm standing on will take a few billion years to disintegrate.