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It seems to me two things are happening. [1] The brain is really good at filling in gaps in its perception of the world and [2] there seems to be some kind of strange loopy recursi…

I think that's a bit of a strawman. If everything has a price, the potential to receive that price without much risk encourages your selfishness. Owning stock while being able to m…

Flat rates in law are useless and often don't affect the rich. It should be proportional to the profit they made, just like minimum wage should be a percentage base on living wage …

Seems like a career academic with no experience in the real world playing around like this is some kind of game. I'm sure they meant no harm, because they don't consider anyone "pa…

There's a slippery slope us STEM people fall into sometimes, where we step-out a level of abstraction and say that all instances of that abstraction were actually just the abstract…

You have more freedom now, but that doesn't mean you are free. And the lack of freedom does not mean you should go back in time to when you were less free. The truth is that your c…

I agree. Your choices are determined by your options, and all our options are determined by corporations. There is no free will in this system. You have to detach from the passive …

Human communication is only 10% the words we use. But the internet for most of its lifetime has been words-only (disregarding recent trends like TikTok). We have lost 90% of what m…

I think the "No True Scottsman" fallacy is confusing here. It's actually really sly. The "No True Scottsman" statement must be used as the argument. It has to say that they're wron…