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Terrified optimist, Kant stan, AI loon, and self-unemployed cognitive engineer — in that order! Begrudgingly [he/him]. Ostensibly here to discuss philosophy, but... y'know...
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- For more info, please consult the relevant seminal literature on the topic: warriorcats.com/books
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- “And the inaugural ‘Best SciFi Poster’ award goes to…”
- saw a "Congress needs to remove Trump from office" and here's the thing: you can go 18 steps down in the succession order and still be hitting completely insane partisan appointees we have locked ourselves into uncharted territory. we are at a point where there is no purely constitutional remedy
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- I really don’t think the French can or should brag about revolution frequency. They only had to try again because the past ones either failed in bloody horror, or succeeded in bloody horror only to be followed by a rapid collapse
- We need to impeach this year — you can’t just pause a democracy for two years and expect everything to work out, especially when the violations are this extreme. Yes, that means convincing 16 GOP senators to elevate Vance. No, that’s not impossible just because Fox News or whatever
- We’ve literally never been in this situation before. “Republicans are too monolithic to flip!” is just completely baseless, IMO
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- While we’re picking, I think Chavez is the natural choice. There’s a few establishment, selfish politician types like Bessnet, Burgum, and Rubio, but Chavez is by far the most nuanced of them AFAICT
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- Really tho hard to imagine a better case than a 91 y/o. Unless they give him a killer stimulant prescription and a copy of mein kampf??
- “JD Vance might commit crimes too” seems way, way better than all the “might”s that come with a total civil war… to say the least. I guess this is precluding some sort of action-movie relatively-bloodless coup, but idk how that’d work, much less who to look to for it…
- More to your specific point: Pete Hegseth doesn’t give a shit about tariffs. They’re evil, not identical.
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- This is absurd — you want to let the president break the law because his successors might also break the law? #Impeachment2025 is the ONLY answer provided by the constitution, I agree with that; if you truly believe that it’s useless, then hopefully you’ve got in contact with your local militia.
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- Patriotism is just meaningless then. How can you be proud of an amorphous, arbitrary group of people with no one particular thing shared between them all other than the government? Nations are just a supergroup of races. Is there a good version of racism?
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- Yeah accelerationism doesn’t mean “grow the economy” — crashing everything is right on track for them
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- That’s very fair — I’d talk philosophy of mothers and fathers in my ideal gender less world, but I think shorterm we can agree we don’t need them in our sponges. BRB gonna brainstorm gender less replacements for a few hours
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- Cool, I’m just of the personal opinion that one of those words in particular is pretty loaded for some people, and doesn’t really add much beyond what “desecrate”/“destroy”/etc. do
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- lol does your name imply one of your cats is gay…? Rad
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- Throwback to when axe made slightly worse deodorants and then marketed them with badass wolves and lions n shit. So cool, so masculine — who doesn’t want to smell like a magical dire wolf?
- Ok plz don’t eat me, friendly large mob, but: why…? Like, because it implied a gender binary? Or b/c “daddy” can be sexual? Or something else altogether??
- After scrolling further, I have decided that it’s the latter and y’all are pervs. Godspeed!
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- Is it possible that you’re looking for “polemic”, E.g. Nietzsche, Hegel, Schopy, Derrida? Re:”why?”, I think the simple answer is that analytics are historically less likely to embrace standpoint theory, which means they’re loath to admit any personal biases or seem to engage in ad hominem.
- Really #PhilSci seems to have an usually-high amount of analytic polemics, now that I think about it: Derrida v Searle, Popper v Kuhn, and the rise n fall of the positivists in general come to mind. More recently, debates over psychiatry and neuroscience have gotten particularly heated, too!
- Not sure I’m a huge fan of talking about the rape and murder of intangible concepts, just personally speaking
- But yeah preach otherwise, obv. Patriotism never existed, and it never will — there is only nationalism at various levels of self-awareness
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View full threadlol yeah definitely don’t believe that guy. Thanks for sharing tho!
- “And I said ‘shut up Karen, you don’t know who you’re dealing with! You’re dealing with a pro” 🙄
- Fascinating+infuriating example of what a lack of #PhilSci can do to someone, centered on: > The notion that drug addiction is a brain disease... encapsulates all that’s wrong with today’s science in this area. There is absolutely no data in humans to show that drug addiction is a brain disease.
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View full threadI won’t step on their toes, but just to clarify the philosophical point I’m trying to make: it’s not up to neuroscientists whether addiction is a disease, it’s up to clinicians. If we suddenly decided that all the disorders that don’t 100% correlate with measurable, …
- …physical changes to the brain aren’t really diseases, then we’d have to cancel the majority of mental disorders weighted by occurrence! I mean, possibly *all* of them, even. Instead, the DSM is based on alleviating suffering. More here for anyone who’s curious :)
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- yeah but that appears to just be blatantly false sooooo
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- His argument is that one amendment makes Trump ineligible to be *elected* to the presidency, not to *serve* as the president. Thus the 12th doesn’t apply. Yes, it’s that dumb.
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- He has before — his argument is basically just “the VP switcheroo is legal”. It makes sense if you’ve never read any philosophy of law, or thought about how intuitive structures like “reasonable” and “objective” are implicitly at the heart of almost every law, constitutional or otherwise
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View full threadLike, I love me some communism, want the best for the people of China even though they’ve mostly abandoned it, and agree that a state-managed housing crisis is better than a purely market-driven one… but this argument would be done well by a quick Wikipedia skim!
- Also this’ll prolly get me blocked if the above doesn’t, but: reply-quoting instead of actually replying to a normal discussion makes me laugh every time. And not, like, *with*… Exceptions made for “you wouldn’t last two seconds in mother’s pussy”-type comments, ofc!
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- Their argument is that real estate speculation became a mass phenomenon in China post-2008, along with the inference “that’s partially due to a lack of investment options in a state-dominated country” at the top of the thread. The former seems just objectively true, and the latter p reasonable!
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- Sadly, "FBI harasses/injures/kills innocent protestors" is one of the most serious mistakes they could make, based on what movements like Civil Rights, anti-Vietnam war, and Ukraine's Euromaidan taught us...
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- Ah okay, thanks for clarifying! Yes they definitely unite on some buzzwords, especially ones with legal weight (i.e. "invasion"). But I think you're underestimating how disjointed they are on the specifics of topics like DOGE, abortion, deportation, foreign policy (esp re:NATO), and, ofc, tariffs
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View full thread> Hart reports that more than 70 percent of drug users—whether they use alcohol, cocaine, prescription medications, or heroin—do not meet the health criteria for drug addiction Fun fact: over 70% of drivers--whether they drive planes, space ships, cars, or helicopters--never leave the ground!
- It literally gets worse by the paragraph; only halfway in and he's already implying that you can drink with your heroin, as long as it's not a "large amount". @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, please fire this man. This is literally deadly rhetoric. @nautil.us, this is absurdly irresponsible.
- I guess it shouldn't exactly be /shocking/ that an empirical scientist was never taught what a disease is (hint: it's not something you can "show" w/ data!), but it's certainly shocking that professional editors let him muse about it nonetheless. A rare example of an article that will kill people.
- 🤦♂️ talk about irresponsible on the part of Nautilus editors. This is fucking disgusting -- sure lets take the word of a random scientist in a semi-related field over the WORLDWIDE MEDICAL CONSENSUS?!?!
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- tbf this is the guy mixing up this particular batch of deadly koolaid. He's a true believer in insane tariffs, presumably b/c being an actual economist was too hard
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- are you joking...?
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View full threadIt’s not about tariffs, it’s directly based on “trade balance”, aka “places that sell more to us than they buy from us”. I have truly no clue what they expect Lesotho and Vietnam (the hardest hit countries) to buy from us in bulk… it’s like demanding your barista accept barter all of a sudden
- And to be clear, this isn’t, like, a “take” — literally, the US tariff rates are now based on trade imbalance. Yes, it’s that dumb; that’s why all the economists are freaking out.
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- Why do we keep asking the treasury secretary about trade…?
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View full threadDevelopmental psychology is indeed a rich field! And maybe the first author (you? I forget, sorry) is an expert in that. But pedagogy is a huge, well-established field — anyone can comment on anything, but having a debate without consulting the relevant experts seems… counterproductive
- It appears your last link implies “we can comment on pedagogy because as professors we teach things”, which fair enough lol! I appreciate that from a certain pragmatic perspective for sure.
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- I did. There are indeed companies selling related products, but machine learning is no more inherently corporate than statistics is.
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- How does an open letter about cloud software in a Dutch university relate to ignoring the existence of open source…? And is that meant to relate to “mainstream”, or is the latter just a general dismissal?
- > While she regularly talks to Trump by phone, ??? Imagining those regular conversations boggles the mind with disgust and horror. Charitably, maybe they’re just being racist together for a bit? Is that something intentional racists do for fun?
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- oo good one, didn't think of it like that
