We have time/energy/money in amounts heretofore not available to us. It's a question of motivation and the culture that produces it. If society's highest common good and life's highest aspirations are materialistic and…
That's not true at all. You can clearly see vacillation between more elaborate and simpler architectural forms throughout history. This just sounds like some whiggish defense of modernism.
Sorites doesn't actually refute the OP. The paradox is rooted in a failure to distinguish between aggregates and integral wholes. A heap is not really a natural kind or an integral whole. It is just a convenient label…
This is just a consequence of the philosophically liberal metaphysics, anthropology, and resulting moral views and political orders they produce. Once you accept those premises, they act as a corrosive agent that can be…
Oh, but they did reach those lands under Marcus Aurelius and indeed occupied them. Prior to his death, he intended to create two new provinces, Marcomannia and Sarmatia. There was even a Roman expedition that reached…
Music is not "pure abstraction" detached from concrete reality. Music has objective properties communicated via audible medium, and what's more, of a quantitative nature. It expresses order. The more beautiful music is,…
> for religious people there is only the single factor, and it let's them do what op did by positioning actual expertise under their personal beliefs. It's difficult to discern precisely the claim you're making, but it…
It would do no such thing. LLMs are neither living nor sentient nor intelligent. The fallacy of computationalism is a failure to read a coarse metaphor as merely analogical. Any correspondence is superficial and…
> The same ideas were used to argue against stem cell research, IVF, and many other treatments and ideas that have saved and helped lives. You write as if objections to (certain kinds of) stem cell research, IVF, etc.…
The transition from communism to capitalism was hardly as rosy as people in the West like to think. Of course, how this unfolded varied. For example, unlike the chaotic Russian privatization that created a class of…
It really is a sign of the times that people are totally unable to define what education is for. And when they attempt answers, they usually fall flat on their faces. Perhaps this is because we have suppressed the habit…
People love to take extreme positions, because they’re easy and satisfies an emotional itch they have, not because they’re correct. The same can be said about government regulation which is analogically similar. You…
One of the most offensive beliefs in this context, one that has been normalized, is that a house is an investment.
That really depends. Some research benefits more from solitary study and work. Saturating everything with "collaboration" is not always the best way. It an be an impediment. (Of course, when we use technology and read…
Who cares? You seem to be putting the cart before the horse. Collaboration is something you do if there is a reason and a benefit for doing so, not something you do for it's own sake. And look, he found something…
I have to agree that the screen narrative is often overly simplistic and perhaps functions as a convenient scapegoat for the other failures (family instability, an absent father, etc.). People are always trying to look…
Indeed, and that's an important distinction. Just war [0] proponents will argue both. For instance, targeting civilians/civilian infrastructure is gravely immoral (the decimation part), but also any armed conflict is…
> You need to persuade the court you can have divorce. What makes you think no-fault divorce is desirable? Stable marriages are integral not only to the individual well-being of those who are married, but to a healthy…
It's not so surprising. When cultures slide into decadence, they seldomly do so abruptly. It often occurs thin slice by thin slice. Once you accept one seemingly thin moral concession, it is easier to accept the next…
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Perhaps it makes some people uncomfortable about their own jobs. In any case, it's not uncommon for people to moralize about something they're not doing, but given the…
I would say the research university is getting comeuppance. Pedagogy is the primary purpose of educational institutions. That includes universities. However, when research is placed first, you are often left with…
What I find interesting is how the tone seems to have changed in swathes of tech industry. Until LLMs were a thing, techno-optimism and sola technologia fundamentalism seems to have been a more prominent fetish. When…
> It's a pejorative removed from it's historical context. It utterly depends on historical context. Intelligent people understand antonomasia and eponymy. > Actual Luddites and Pharisees would have not agreed that they…
Which is, of course, a bad thing that ought not to be encouraged and that ubiquity does, in fact, encourage and normalize.
The American situation is a real quagmire. The American auto lobby has spent nearly a century manipulating Americans and American culture by insinuating car ownership and transportation into what it means to be…
We have time/energy/money in amounts heretofore not available to us. It's a question of motivation and the culture that produces it. If society's highest common good and life's highest aspirations are materialistic and…
That's not true at all. You can clearly see vacillation between more elaborate and simpler architectural forms throughout history. This just sounds like some whiggish defense of modernism.
Sorites doesn't actually refute the OP. The paradox is rooted in a failure to distinguish between aggregates and integral wholes. A heap is not really a natural kind or an integral whole. It is just a convenient label…
This is just a consequence of the philosophically liberal metaphysics, anthropology, and resulting moral views and political orders they produce. Once you accept those premises, they act as a corrosive agent that can be…
Oh, but they did reach those lands under Marcus Aurelius and indeed occupied them. Prior to his death, he intended to create two new provinces, Marcomannia and Sarmatia. There was even a Roman expedition that reached…
Music is not "pure abstraction" detached from concrete reality. Music has objective properties communicated via audible medium, and what's more, of a quantitative nature. It expresses order. The more beautiful music is,…
> for religious people there is only the single factor, and it let's them do what op did by positioning actual expertise under their personal beliefs. It's difficult to discern precisely the claim you're making, but it…
It would do no such thing. LLMs are neither living nor sentient nor intelligent. The fallacy of computationalism is a failure to read a coarse metaphor as merely analogical. Any correspondence is superficial and…
> The same ideas were used to argue against stem cell research, IVF, and many other treatments and ideas that have saved and helped lives. You write as if objections to (certain kinds of) stem cell research, IVF, etc.…
The transition from communism to capitalism was hardly as rosy as people in the West like to think. Of course, how this unfolded varied. For example, unlike the chaotic Russian privatization that created a class of…
It really is a sign of the times that people are totally unable to define what education is for. And when they attempt answers, they usually fall flat on their faces. Perhaps this is because we have suppressed the habit…
People love to take extreme positions, because they’re easy and satisfies an emotional itch they have, not because they’re correct. The same can be said about government regulation which is analogically similar. You…
One of the most offensive beliefs in this context, one that has been normalized, is that a house is an investment.
That really depends. Some research benefits more from solitary study and work. Saturating everything with "collaboration" is not always the best way. It an be an impediment. (Of course, when we use technology and read…
Who cares? You seem to be putting the cart before the horse. Collaboration is something you do if there is a reason and a benefit for doing so, not something you do for it's own sake. And look, he found something…
I have to agree that the screen narrative is often overly simplistic and perhaps functions as a convenient scapegoat for the other failures (family instability, an absent father, etc.). People are always trying to look…
Indeed, and that's an important distinction. Just war [0] proponents will argue both. For instance, targeting civilians/civilian infrastructure is gravely immoral (the decimation part), but also any armed conflict is…
> You need to persuade the court you can have divorce. What makes you think no-fault divorce is desirable? Stable marriages are integral not only to the individual well-being of those who are married, but to a healthy…
It's not so surprising. When cultures slide into decadence, they seldomly do so abruptly. It often occurs thin slice by thin slice. Once you accept one seemingly thin moral concession, it is easier to accept the next…
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Perhaps it makes some people uncomfortable about their own jobs. In any case, it's not uncommon for people to moralize about something they're not doing, but given the…
I would say the research university is getting comeuppance. Pedagogy is the primary purpose of educational institutions. That includes universities. However, when research is placed first, you are often left with…
What I find interesting is how the tone seems to have changed in swathes of tech industry. Until LLMs were a thing, techno-optimism and sola technologia fundamentalism seems to have been a more prominent fetish. When…
> It's a pejorative removed from it's historical context. It utterly depends on historical context. Intelligent people understand antonomasia and eponymy. > Actual Luddites and Pharisees would have not agreed that they…
Which is, of course, a bad thing that ought not to be encouraged and that ubiquity does, in fact, encourage and normalize.
The American situation is a real quagmire. The American auto lobby has spent nearly a century manipulating Americans and American culture by insinuating car ownership and transportation into what it means to be…