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- 12 Nov 2024, 16:46
- Forum: TV & Film
- Topic: Britain's Best Sitcom
- Replies: 1
- Views: 462
- 15 Sep 2024, 07:13
- Forum: Random
- Topic: The Singularity And Me
- Replies: 2
- Views: 478
Re: The Singularity And Me
Yeah to be fair journalistic standards have been falling steadily our whole lifetimes through! Add to that the scurge of the clickbaits and teases favoured by sub-editors. I remember reading a long and woolly article picking a minor fault in Darwin's (century-old) biology which was very incidental t...
- 15 Sep 2024, 06:50
- Forum: Random
- Topic: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 516
Re: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!
Also, Schopenhauer was NOT punk, but only because he was unmistakeably very Goth.
- 15 Sep 2024, 06:49
- Forum: Random
- Topic: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 516
Re: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!
Have I mentioned yet today that Sartre was a fraud? He was to Soviet Communism what Heidegger was to the Nazi party, but in spite of that some (French) nationalism leaked into his mindset from his study of Hegel the arch-nationalist. I recall him saying that he didn't believe in the guilt of those p...
- 15 Sep 2024, 06:38
- Forum: Random
- Topic: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 516
Re: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!
HT Mill was an ardent feminist and probably more egalitarian and in tune with her emotions than John Stuart. Hume's use of the comma does not belong in a sentence with the word style - 18th century English is often cumbersome, and he was a popular writer in his day.... All the same I wish this impre...
- 14 Sep 2024, 19:25
- Forum: Random
- Topic: The Singularity And Me
- Replies: 2
- Views: 478
The Singularity And Me
aicontentisbad.jpg It seems that every time I find something I'm good at, a computer can do it cheaper! Not better. But cheaper. And faster. This happened a few years back with outreach research, and now AI content is taking over the internet too. In fact a lot of groups already are one big circle-...
- 14 Sep 2024, 00:53
- Forum: Random
- Topic: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 516
Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!
philosophersrankedbypunkcred.jpg What does everyone think of this? I would dock Marx, and having heard (at second-hand from his biography) that John Stuart Mill was picked up by the 5-0 for distributing birth control literature and taken to the magistrates for obscenity, I'd give him a little bump ...
- 12 Jul 2024, 22:41
- Forum: Books & Writing
- Topic: Review of two ASOIF books
- Replies: 2
- Views: 508
Re: Review of two ASOIF books
Hot take: The books are disgusting because history is disgusting when done right!
- 21 May 2024, 15:46
- Forum: Health & Self-Care
- Topic: Euthanasia: When and If
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1587
Re: Euthanasia: When and If
"One way in which the bar is sometimes set too high for patients who are trying to access assisted suicide is by broadening the scope of decision-making capacity evaluations too far beyond issues of capacity. One example of this is using an inappropriately high standard of ‘stability’ of attitu...
- 21 May 2024, 15:29
- Forum: Books & Writing
- Topic: Gothic Horror Tropes!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8351
Re: Gothic Horror Tropes!
Sycorax: I just finished reading the linked Wikipedia article about Belle, and would be interested in reading (English translations of) her letters. Is there any good commentary website about them, and are the English translations freely available somewhere? I'm not fluent in French unfortunately, I...