Correct

Even satoshi didn't invent anything. He just put the pieces together. His genius came, at least in part, from not thinking like a dev.

Fucking watch me.

I think the worship of extinguishing existence is the shitcoin.

Aha! Now we're getting to the truth!

Isn't psychology just manipulation in a fancy coat?

I stated why. I'm not holding a secret meeting with lizard people trying to manipulate - I put it out here. It prevents manipulation.

But I don't know

Modern philosophy's only claim.

Imagine telling an aspiring plumber "work" or repeating the injunction to think to an engineer.

You must be able to tell the plumber how to work and the engineer how to think.

All I see from current schools of thought is how to sound smart without accomplishing anything. The emperor has no clothes! Plumbers are better philosophers because at least they can tell you something.

None of the above. I assert that philosophy has failed to produced a concrete methodology for discerning truth. If axioms exist and are accepted then we should have access to rigorous tools to answer philosophical questions. We should be able to make wise choices. But near as I can tell (correct me if I am wrong) modern philosophy's only claim is that you cannot make moral claims. You might find a system that can guide your personal decisions but not one that can be used to instruct someone else.

You can't build a functional society that way.

Again I may be way off base. I lost interest in modern philosophy after Kant and Hume. I don't even disagree with them. Their critique was correct. But all we had to do to fix it was to agree on some axioms and then continue. We haven't done that near as I can tell.

None of the above. I assert that philosophy has failed to produced a concrete methodology for discerning truth. If axioms exist and are accepted then we should have access to rigorous tools to answer philosophical questions. We should be able to make wise choices. But near as I can tell (correct me if I am wrong) modern philosophy's only claim is that you cannot make moral claims. You might find a system that can guide your personal decisions but not one that can be used to instruct someone else.

You can't build a functional society that way.

Again I may be way off base. I lost interest in modern philosophy after Kant and Hume. I don't even disagree with them. Their critique was correct. But all we had to do to fix it was to agree on some axioms and then continue. We haven't done that near as I can tell.

I specifically did not. I mentioned other types of faith. Like faith that our memories are our own. Faith in God is only one way to build a set of axioms, but whatever your set of axioms, you have to have faith in it or you cannot make use of it.

No. Not what I said. But if you lost me two posts ago, I might as well leave. Another time perhaps.

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Lol, yes and absolutely not. There is no certainty absent assumptions, but there is certainty within a given framework of axioms.

All we have been able to show is that belief, in something, is necessary. It can be that our memories are our own, or that formal logic gives valid results, or that God exists. But without faith in some axioms we cannot reason.

The lack of certainty can mean that we are trying to make sense of chaos or it can mean that faith is as fundamental as God said it is.

I could accept the former premise, but it is uninteresting, my coming and going as an accident of a chaotic interpretation of random states would be meaningless. Sure I could assign it my own meaning to feel better about existence but that too would be meaningless.

Maybe that is exactly what I am doing in accepting the latter premise. Maybe following Christ is as ephemeral and arbitrary as stacking sats or making shoes for orphans. Just another way to assign meaning to a temporary ordered structure in the ether.

If that is the case it is no worse that any other interpretation. If instead it is true... Then a gamble well made.

This offers a simplistic view of moral certainty in order to make moral relativism seem wise.

Saying that philosophy has "matured" is an ungrounded value assertion.

I gave a very simple definition of wisdom that allows us to gauge philosophical success. Does it provide the tools a person needs to know how to act?

All of the above quotes deride unquestioning moral certainty, but that is a willful strawman. No one ever said philosophy needed to provide unquestioned aughts anymore than we expect mathematics to provide unquestioned answers. What we expect instead is the ability to ask any question and arrive at a correct answer.

In math we don't make a list of every possible answer, we develop a system where answers can be derived.

So when I say modern philosophy fails to tell us what we aught to do, I mean that it fails to give us any tools to arrive at what we aught to do, in a given situation, through a rational process.

What it does instead is give us tools to do precisely what we want and feel smug about it at the same time.

The quotes you listed all assert that they are doing something new in allowing people to think for themselves as if previous philosophy wasn't precisely a tool to do that. That is pure foolishness. What they didn't like was that real tools lead to real answers.

Did philosophy have problems? Yes it did. But the problems were problems of rigor. They needed shoring up not abandonment. We live in a post-certianty world, but if math can survive it, so can philosophy. What is required isn't ideological certainty, that is a strawman, it is moral courage.

I meant to say, I feel sorry for the poor guy that went crazy.

Maybe another way of looking at the same glass half emptied is that poor guy that went crazy.

I don’t know if being good is a tragedy… but maybe not being yourself is.

Omg don't be so lame.

I was a good girl. I was a good woman. I gave up my visa to hospice my partners dying father during 2020. It was a hellscape. And for what? The mans went crazy when his old man kicked the bucket and dumped me. I'm not even all that mad, things come apart but like he wasn't making any sense about it. Saying things like how I used to be blonde (literally never) or recounting fights I watched between him and his sister but saying it was me who had said those awful things. Idk. I tried hard. I did my best. I'm proud of how I behaved during the hardest times I've seen. But the rewards never match the work really.

In another world I would still be in Europe. I'd still be single but it would maybe be a less tragic story. And I wouldn't be afraid of a vision quest with a bunch of mushroom heads, they were generally good vibes. One girl funded her travels selling bracelets, she is as all the way from Columbia. She since back in South America but still nomadic and has a lil daughter. People with different lifestyles aren't necessarily dangerous.

You don't do sex or drugs and you're a good girl and what? No cookies. No reward. I should have been sucking the marrow out of life while I was still young and hot.

But whatever. There's always hope for the future!!! 🙌

How do you find the motivation to get out of bed? Asking for a friend.

#asknostr

This one:

The first season was woke AF , did they woke it up some more?

feel kinda empty rn

weird

We're all just anon plebs. Heroism is ego

That sounds like attention.

I'm sorry, but I don't think you are.

It’s not advice for anyone

You can also use a dildo in a violent way. What’s your point? lol

You wouldn’t really be zapping me as much as I’d be zapping myself if I touch the fence

I don’t see it that way. A fence isn’t used violently for example.

There's gravity in softwar? 😮

The alternative is always personal, as is voting BTW. The society is emergent property of individual action.

The real question is how to live your best life. If you give up politics and create space, you start looking for solutions of your problems outside of politics. And when you miss something, you can help build it.

A good way to do it is to be a tourist or an expat, if not really, then adopting this mindset. If you move to some other place, you have to pay taxes and deal with the local bullshit, but you can't vote. So you look for other ways to solve your problems. You might find them, sometimes you don't find them, but your vote definitely does not change a thing.

(In most elections the probability you change a single seat it parliament or decide the winner is zero).