mutual-a.bsky.social
✨i'm in my pop front era ✨
i write things to change minds. anarcho-spreadsheetist. learning the hard way, but at least im learning.
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banger
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"dirtier than trump"
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#butenoughthatitsaproblemandtheyneedtobecalledout
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some /r/wallstreetbets nerd is going to be a millionaire in a week
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francios chollet has made a similar point fchollet.substack.com/p/ai-is-cogn...
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Postscript: David Chalmers organized a poll, by which we have established that not all Philosophy is Natural. I always suspected that some philosophy is Unnatural.
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dw fridman has got this
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*one of the largest, most effective boycott campaigns in history started by people who belong to a specific party*
"yeah leaders of that party should embrace the guy who motivated the boycott campaign"
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"trump accidentally hits the 'create The Culture' button as he goes to fire elon"
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one of my favorite examples of this was some minor (below 5k subscribers) tradcath youtuber who once complained about how his small c conservative parents had come around on gay marriage and how he got into arguments with them about it
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There Is No New Discourse Under The Sun
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my favorite example of this that i just found out is alan turing www.turing.org.uk/publications...
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i'd be interested in talking to you about this sort of thing!
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eh you can already see the cracks emerging in the 90s. see corey robin's in the reactionary mind
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yup. but there's also a refusal of leftists to try and contest the space
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see also leftists being shocked that many people on /r/neoliberal take trans issues seriously
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it's also undermined by economic calculation problem issues
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back in the day being a futurist weirdo fuckin meant something
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second best parts were any scenes with Tramell Tillman
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i thought the submarine scene was the best in the movie because i kept on rolling my eyes at the schlocky dialogue and also the physical action was the best part
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somewhat agree but i don't think the theories are arbitrary in terms of how you can pick any of them or do i think our values are arbitrary
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completely agreed which is a big part of why the humanities people need to get serious is that this is all deeply political and also in flux and is far too important to be left to tech ceos and VCs
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yuppp aelkus.github.io/theory/2019/...
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lololololol
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dumber movements have started from people posting on the internet
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so people never get to experience the intuitive side of mathematics or rational inquiry
terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advic...
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stuff like
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yeah i think part of it is an understandable reaction to how math and the sciences are taught (poorly), which causes clustering and is then finds expression in more sophisticated arguments (eg see adorno's stuff on knowledge seeking as control and power)
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sure there's reasons for humanities folk to be frustrated but i am also interested in Winning and since the left is presently committed to the humanities at the expense of the sciences i would also like to correct that
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bsky.app/profile/blue...
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this is what virtue ethics gets very very right
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I am a big fan of The Chart bsky.app/profile/mutu...
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i mean the turn by tech CEOs toward the right was driven in part by worker activism! marc andressen is ranting in the NYT about the companies he invests in being overrun by marxists!
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like seriously?