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> But later philosophers came up with much better solutions Yes, later than both Smith and Marx . Marginalism didn't go mainstream until the 1890s, though the necessary pieces were…

Unless you're doing math (and are willing to take first order logic as a priori true) you need to start with something. Learning about the world requires data, data requires identi…

> simply be what that conscious thing experiences when a set of neurons is activated in a particular way? That is what it is, but that's totally independent of whether they're phys…

I'm comparing Afrikaners to the English and to South African blacks who were integrating into colonial society (among whom the Zulu were likely the largest ethnic group, but certai…

> Okay, but this is not at all what Marx himself said. Marx was philosophically opposed in all of his writings to answering even the most basic questions about what a communist eco…

> But that efficiency of the current state, but doesn't seem to take account of the evolution that happened to get to that point. Has anyone measured the work it takes to get the m…

> This kind of shallow dismissal of my shallow dismissal of a frankly idiotic idea that doesn't deserve a deeper dismissal The labor theory of value was accepted wisdom prior to th…

> Marx believed that making functioning plans was useless since progress was inevitable once unleashed. Marx believed that planning out the detailed structure of a future utopian s…

The LSD essay went way, way over the heads of half of his comment section.

> My impression is that they're what scott calls "my dinner guests." Yes, he's pathologically friendly towards anyone to his right: part and parcel of not taking them that seriousl…

The relevant outgroups animating Afrikaner nationalism aren't the Zulu (or Xhosa, or Tswana, etc.) as a whole, but rather the rapidly growing black working class on the one hand, a…

> As for e/acc, I have no idea what that means. It's just the latest rebranding of Nick Land's ideology/performance art/shitposting. "Capital will devour human civilization: here's…

e/acc is an internet meme. The underlying ideological group, to the extent that there is one, is the "reactionary modernism"/"Californian Ideology"/"New Right"/"neoreactionary" clu…

> Every single human conflict can be described as "small differences" because humans are very similar to each other. He's obviously talking about differences which are small by hum…

He has a house in Vermont, a one-bedroom apartment in DC, and a lakefront cabin. For an upper middle class octogenarian, that's completely unremarkable. Most American software engi…

That's not a bunch of separate caveats, it's a few principles illustrated with lots of examples. - Don't use effects for things that aren't genuinely effectful - Put finnicky state…

I'm having trouble finding a primary source, but here's a paper discussing the issue. Field, A. (2014). Schelling, von Neumann, and the Event that Didn’t Occur. Games, 5(1), 53–89.…

In practice "Communism" means Leninism and its descendants, or occasionally revolutionary Marxism in general. No one reasonable would ever use it to refer to the likes of Olof Palm…

> him having personally experienced Soviet brutality didn't have the luxury of being ignorant of reality. Allied troops didn't reach Hungary until 1944, and the Soviet-backed coup …

Somethings are simply bad for you, without qualification, but for the most part it only makes sense to use "healthy" or "unhealthy" to describe a diet, not individual foods. Milk h…

No, three is just an arbitrary number for their example. The point is not the exact number of roles but the fact that the basic legal unit is the relationship, not the person. For …

> does HN have some type of special level of skepticism built into it that no where else online does? Obviously not, but there's no general factor of wrongness lurking behind it. H…

> Again Chomsky and other tankies Chomsky is literally an anarchist.

They're not. Most protected classes are things like "race" or "marital status" - not "black" or "married". (Age is an exception here, at least federally: young people are not prote…