Philosophy

Philosophy and ethics: moral argument, metaphysics, value, thought experiments

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  1. In the beginning there was sensation Humans developed the ability to freeze sensations, then used these frozen pieces to construct a grammar for thought (vasocomputation) This led to words, magical… (johnsonmxe) — 48 likes
  2. this is the heart of philosophy, all else is commentary 🧐 https://t.co/7uu4B9YhpH (visakanv) — 46 likes
  3. man is not punished for his sins, but by them. https://t.co/MfCuBLtcEn (slimepriestess) — 42 likes
  4. yeah i like k-pop (Karl Popper) (demiurgently) — 41 likes
  5. Bro, FINALLY figured out why these stories of "there being something more outside" are so intuitively plausible (Plato's Cave, The Matrix, Simulation Theory). IS IT ANY WONDER???… (nosilverv) — 36 likes
  6. my main observation of transhumanists - now that I’m back in the Bay Area is that they seem to be people that aren’t enjoying “being human” very much. imo - let’s get “how to enjoy life here”… (relic_radiation) — 35 likes
  7. a short introduction to psychofauna, riffing on some ideas from neoplatonic Christianity: imagine that every thing and every category of thing has an angel associated with it, the angel of England,… (RichDecibels) — 35 likes
  8. You know when you're into someone and you start interacting with the image you have of them instead of interacting with them? E.g. thinking they're perfect or that getting with them will solve all… (UntilTrees) — 33 likes
  9. Hanging out with actual hippies this weekend was fun but kind of hard, like I believe most of the same weird stuff they do, but somehow the way we believe it is different, like epistemologically,… (chercher_ai) — 33 likes
  10. pacifism is not noble: it's an abdication of responsibility. the cowardice of pacifism is not physical; pacifists are frequently willing to endure pain and injury. it is instead the cowardice of… (eigenrobot) — 32 likes
  11. Gall's Law is one of those statements that just keeps hitting harder and more deeply the more time I spend with it. At first it seemed false, then a truism, then an interesting insight, and now a… (eshear) — 32 likes
  12. since i was kid i always wondered why things weren't better. i've probably spent thousands of hours thinking and reading and talking about this. my current assessment is something like, there first… (visakanv) — 31 likes
  13. We didn't kill God. We just took him apart to see how He worked and now we're putting Him back together (vividvoid) — 31 likes
  14. Well-kept gardens do not provide the bounty of unkept forests (forshaper) — 30 likes
  15. unhinged inspired moment where I mapped high-level interdependence of things that seem relevant in the path from human experience to human flourishing in deep time v2 next version will prob be… (exgenesis) — 30 likes
  16. There is a certain mindset, a certain worldview, under which the possession of power and agency makes you culpable for every bad thing you don’t fix, and where being incompetent or powerless renders… (eshear) — 30 likes
  17. I’ve been increasingly convinced the generalized disdain that most people have for janky partial solutions might be the real thing that keeps people trapped in local minimas in all sorts of domains… (visakanv) — 30 likes
  18. We said we were going to do this "for the time being". And we did. But the Time Being is a hungry beast, and demanded ever more sacrifice. https://t.co/kjpRbqokCC (Malcolm_Ocean) — 30 likes
  19. slowly and increasingly convinced that the nietzschean yes-sayers are the most powerful beings on the planet https://t.co/YfB4CfJNRc (visakanv) — 29 likes
  20. the yin/yang nature of agreeableness and disagreeableness has become clearer to me over the years you can't truly agree unless there's the option of not agreeing and you can't meaningfully disagree… (visakanv) — 29 likes
  21. If we do our job well, if we succeed as a civilization, one day people will look back at today and say, “the past was a place of so much suffering and pain”. (eshear) — 29 likes
  22. when i look at the young people I admire who are ambitious, the bottleneck keeping them from doing more rarely seems to be that their aspirations aren't high enough – the bigger issue tends to be… (visakanv) — 28 likes
  23. i said i thought we should be disagreeing more so to put my money where my mouth is: i find nick cammarata’s entire philosophy of life deeply abhorrent and have for years, it feels to me essentially… (QiaochuYuan) — 28 likes
  24. consequentialism is literally too intractable for individual minds to do, it’s too hard to predict the effects of anything. it should be done distributed over *gestures vaguely* the network. virtue… (QiaochuYuan) — 28 likes
  25. I am not at all the sort of person inclined to be charitable to effective altruism. I am a romanticist, a Nietzschean, a skeptic of scientific materialism, liberal ideas of progress, etc. But in the… (PrinceVogel) — 28 likes
  26. My daughter: what time is it? @_inju: time isn't realDaughter: uh, wrong. what if you go to the dining hall for dinner and it isn't open yet? time matters a lot (Lithros) — 28 likes
  27. like writing a novel without the letter E, you discover new things by observing the world without using a deficit frame eg "political institutions lack legitimacy as voter participation declines" ➡️… (RichDecibels) — 28 likes
  28. lol when they said "you are the company you keep" I thought they meant "the people you hang out with have a big influence on you" not "your companions literally set the limits of who you can become" (RichDecibels) — 28 likes
  29. Many different lines of enquiry have led me to this same conviction: The best guiding question in life is, “Who do you want to share this life with?” *Everything else* can be determined from this… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  30. there’s an entire universe of experiences like this that people have been having for millennia, that a kind of “i fucking love science” devotion to scientific materialism dismisses out of hand… (QiaochuYuan) — 27 likes
  31. do you ever feel like you've spent your whole life just reconstructing common wisdom from scratch (goblinodds) — 27 likes
  32. what % of happiness is just a sense of agency? by which i think i mean: a sense that you can make choices, that your choices can affect outcomes, and that you can survive those outcomes? i'm… (goblinodds) — 27 likes
  33. the end of the hero's journey has really, substantively changed,, traditionally, you return to a home that you now understand in a different, higher way - you now *belong* in a different way now,… (the_wilderless) — 27 likes
  34. it's such a stark representation of one of the deepest, most foundational things that I think is wrong about the world today. this... puritanical(?) notion that "solving problems" and "having a good… (visakanv) — 27 likes
  35. if you could influence someone in domains of reality they're not aware of... how would you do that ethically? I feel like my capacity to subtly influence people keeps growing, but my ethical… (RichDecibels) — 27 likes
  36. i’ll do it: it’s actually bad to have more agency than you have a clear understanding of your values. that’s a recipe for being preyed on by people who want your agency to serve their agenda.… (QiaochuYuan) — 27 likes
  37. Being kind to the monsters that appear out of the darkness is overpowered https://t.co/k79e8jUUN8 (the_wilderless) — 27 likes
  38. The core emotional drama of the metamodern adventure (everything everywhere all at once, umbrella academy, Loki, rick and morty) is Heidegger’s dread. Dread is the recognition that ultimately,… (eshear) — 27 likes
  39. I spent 35 years of life figuring out what I came to call homeostatic closure, that we might define wholesome vs unwholesome behavior as that which supports vs undermines the very conditions that… (RomeoStevens76) — 27 likes
  40. the esoteric meaning of "postrationalist" is a person who is recovering from the totalizing memes in the rationalist ecosystem. it is a trip. especially because you can't just refute them by saying… (QiaochuYuan) — 26 likes
  41. them: nobody can do what you're suggesting me: well what if they first do A, B, C, D them: nobody does all of that me: ah you're not actually... you don't actually care about what is possible,… (visakanv) — 26 likes
  42. we are the universe trying to understand itself, trying to love itself i choose to believe that the universe is fundamentally good i choose to believe that people are fundamentally good all there is… (tasshinfogleman) — 26 likes
  43. sometimes- quite often, really - the answer to the question of “but what if it hurts” is “then you suffer, lol” (visakanv) — 26 likes
  44. the problem with identifying as an "Altruist" is that it trains you to think of yourself as someone who unilaterally helps others instead of being rooted in relationships of mutual care (RichDecibels) — 26 likes
  45. guy: do you have any advice me: show up, dont die, and dont quit guy: lolll cmon gimme something more than that me: nothing is more important than that. try and have fun, do 100 things, ask… (visakanv) — 26 likes
  46. >live in a society >rich beyond belief >enjoy fruits of a thousand generations of cultural development >complex and subtle technology for solving all manner of collective action problems… (eigenrobot) — 26 likes
  47. New rule: You're not allowed to write about the prisoner's dilemma unless you can also explain two other distinct two-player games with different payoff matrices, provide real life examples of them,… (DRMacIver) — 26 likes
  48. much suffering is caused by people turning a "reduce variance" knob without realizing it controls the positive variance too (eshear) — 26 likes
  49. We seem grossly oversupplied on suffering, overall. I mean a little suffering now and then for good cause, that’s one of the spices of life, but this is absurd. Who ordered all this suffering? What… (eshear) — 26 likes
  50. Trying to explain to gf why it is so good to stay in the beach a REALLY long time and I ended up having to talk about levels of identity and subordination so... STRADDLE ON First, as I've talked… (nosilverv) — 26 likes

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