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- Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:01 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: French politics thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18058
Re: French politics thread
I see a lot of proposals to rally the left into a united front, so I made a table to get a clearer picture of the scene: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17UYkt1juoInQXDv8CBDi83Q9G7rMffpKB0aUEG3Biz4 Any mistakes so far? Based on what I've read, these figures suggest to me a relative increase in the ...
- Wed Apr 18, 2018 1:58 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: French politics thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18058
Re: French politics thread
Regardless, I don't think it's controversial to say that neoliberals are conservatives. If French liberals are anything like neoliberals, they are probably conservatives. Back to topic: What are the prospects for the French left in the next election, or at least in the immediate future? How much doe...
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 4:03 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: French politics thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18058
Re: French politics thread
Thanks. In my experience, such as it is, libertarians are extremophiles who implore the government to let broke corporations go bust and retreat to the dark web to escape legal strictures. I don't know much about libertarian-neoliberal connections.
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 2:35 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: French politics thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18058
Re: French politics thread
Exactly. How is that different from corporate conservatism? As opposed to, say, religious conservatism, that seeks to legislate religious morality, or populism, which is socially conservative but economically liberal.
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 2:35 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Incoherent rambling checked extensively for regularity
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6141
Incoherent rambling checked extensively for regularity
I still can't believe Stony Brook accepted Jorjani's dissertation. Philosophy departments are playing a very nice game. I want to play too. I agree with obscurantist critics like Jason Reza Jorjani to the extent that many people who think of the world in terms of agency find mathematical physics to ...
- Sun Apr 15, 2018 7:58 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: French politics thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18058
Re: French politics thread
I've vaguely heard of this. What I don't understand is how you can criticize a movement that's proposing to restrict individual rights and increase collusion between church and state for its "libertarianism". In the Anglo world, libertarians explain their position as being economically conservative ...
- Sat Apr 14, 2018 9:08 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: French politics thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18058
Re: French politics thread
Conservatism is slavery.xxx wrote:it could be ever more liberal...
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:12 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 208100
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
When asked about one's values, do yous think it's appropriate to respond 'to be respected' and 'to not steal'? For me, having (good) values means treating other people as though you were involved in a common enterprise. (Because you basically are IMO, but that's a long argument.) Respecting person ...
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:28 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 137714
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
1. Another Day from Rent is stuck in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oidzfBu-cJY I don't understand why it's un-PC to like Rent. Do you really want your operatic characters to be moral exemplars, or terrible and flamboyant enough to move your jaded soul? 2. Watching YouTube on speed 2 in a ...
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:35 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 137714
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
It depends. I liked his conception of cultural identity because it provides a clean, naive and uncritical contrast to, say, Husserl's ( link ). I also thought the derivation of spectral ideas in his dissertation ( available online ) has some relevance for writing horror and fantasy. On politics prop...
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:49 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 137714
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
I found an interesting philosophy dissertation from Stony Brook: https://ir.stonybrook.edu/xmlui/handle/11401/72545 (This one is useful for writing how characters interact with the world: https://ir.stonybrook.edu/xmlui/handle/11401/71301) For geopolitics, a simple search turned up these channels: h...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:44 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 137714
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
I found a bunch of philosophy dissertations from the place where I got Prometheus and Atlas by Googling "site:https://ir.stonybrook.edu/xmlui/bitstream/ philosophy" and "site:https://ir.stonybrook.edu/xmlui/bitstream/ philosophy pdf" (without quotes). These look interesting: Why We're Liberal, Why W...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:36 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 137714
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
If the alt right is your thing: Having read Prometheus and Atlas, Jason Reza Jorjani comes across as a more sophisticated thinker than Jordan Peterson. He's wrong about everything, of course. These Nazi types never seem to realize that you can't have a lasting government run by geniuses. Not only wi...
- Mon Feb 26, 2018 4:24 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Curry-Howard correspondence
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5757
Curry-Howard correspondence
People with hippocampal brain damage often have unreliable memory, an obsession with philosophy, and graphomania. Since I suffer from all these symptoms, I've embarked on my next useless project. According to the Curry-Howard correspondence , propositions are types and proofs are programs . The most...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:56 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Minor Semitic Deities
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7802
Re: Minor Semitic Deities
I see what you're going for. There are the bird-headed humanoids Apkallu. Enki created them in Abzu. They came to earth and taught humans the arts of civilization, laws, writing and architecture. Before the flood, they served as advisors to kings. After the flood, Enki banished them back to Abzu. Is...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 8:46 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 137714
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
If people are going to watch Oddly Satisfying videos, might as well learn things while we're at it: Making A Large Wheel Skeleton Clock Machining The Antikythera Mechanism Building an 8-bit breadboard computer Are these clips really that much more satisfying? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCZIevh...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:47 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Minor Semitic Deities
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7802
Re: Minor Semitic Deities
The Nephilim do not receive a particularly supernatural treatment in the bible, right? My immediate impression of an Assyrian minor deity is the Lamassu, but they aren't humanoid. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mesopotamian_deities#Spirits_and_demons There is possibly a minor contradict...
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 7:18 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 137714
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
The first one.
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 7:14 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 137714
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
I'm making a new music playlist so I can add other videos to my "Liked playlist" . There are translations of the title/description in French, German, Hebrew, Russian and Spanish. "This playlist is private." --- I'm reading Logics of Worlds by Alain Badiou. I've decided to support some channels on P...
- Thu Jan 18, 2018 3:23 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 137714
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
Linguistics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-sW5dOlDxxu0EgdNn2pMaQ/videos?flow=grid&view=0&sort=da I haven't checked if this guy knows what he's talking about. In case he does, does anyone know Romani? Puzzles in the form of online drama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svJF_FoSI9o https://www.yo...
- Thu Jan 18, 2018 1:26 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: climate change
- Replies: 60
- Views: 24800
Re: Zizekian We
I dunno, brazil is quite big. and I'm sure they'd be welcome in argentina, chile, uruguay, paraguay if it came to that (which it won't, brazil is colossally empty) I'm not claiming it's going to be cheap or painless, but its not gonna break civilization IIRC flood-related evacuations might actually...
- Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:38 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: climate change
- Replies: 60
- Views: 24800
Re: climate change
If you want to avoid the stigma of New Atheism, then there's a simple alternative: "don't bring up atheism all the time, and avoid attacking other people's religions". The alternative isn't "take something random and call it your religion". I agree that the uninformed ranting against Christianity, ...
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 3:04 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: climate change
- Replies: 60
- Views: 24800
Re: climate change
I was referring to the whole left-liberalism vs New Atheism controversy on the internet. Maybe I could have worded it better, though I can't imagine how without dedicating an explanatory paragraph to it: Left-liberals, especially on this forum, have been telling me for years not to associate with th...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:29 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 310009
Re: Venting thread
I haven't eaten anything today and I'm out of food. I should go buy something.
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 2:09 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: climate change
- Replies: 60
- Views: 24800
Re: climate change
Regarding the whole "sf" thing, this is not "just sf" in the sense that it is the only source of spiritual meaning that seems valid to me. If there is a future possibility for a book of laws that maximizes the potential of rational beings, then I can do the following: 1. Abide by what I know of what...