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I'm sorry you're suffering and I hope you don't commit suicide. You are not a peasant. Peasants don't have $2m at any point. Maintaining a middle-class lifestyle today, which is an…

"By your definition the subjective experience says nothing about how a heart actually works." No, that's a reductionist assumption. When I say "subjective experience" I am explicit…

"you seem to be arguing you know more about pumping blood than the surgeons based on a feeling" No, I did not argue that at all. I said that there are multiple types of knowledge r…

"a cardiac surgeon can still know far more about your heart than you do" You're conflating the knowledge surgeons have with the subjective experience of a pounding heart. Surgeons …

I sometimes want to leave the industry because I can't seem to find a job dealing with interesting problems. I enjoy Rust and C, working with OS and machine details, but there don'…

Yeah, the author conflates power with ambition which is easy to do while in a peaceful, prosperous society where making just enough to live on doesn't necessarily come with serious…

Right. markdown was obviously not saying "children ought to be spanked because it's traditional and currently common," but rather, "you should not be 'amazed' that people feel that…

There are two claims here that should be considered separately. 1. Hackers are reluctant to acknowledge that their work has political ramifications. I believe this is true, and a p…

This section stuck out to me also: > Why would you want to be like Socrates, and not like Newton? Especially since Newton had more to show for his thoughts than an account of what …

The author seems to take the goal of studying philosophy to be knowledge/technique collection, for an eventual goal of some type of measurable output. In other words, she expects p…