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Hegemony shapes discourse in its image. I believe the issue is not which ideology ‘truly’ affirms some self evident notion of self interest, but which ideology can successfully ass…

This is wonderfully perfectly provocative. A clever button pushing projectile innocently lobbed into the everyday pitter patter. An imposter post meant to deviously short circuit t…

Plenary Talk by Michael Levin on "Non-neural, developmental bioelectricity as a precursor for cognition: Evolution, synthetic organisms, and biomedicine" at the Virtual Miniature B…

I want better systems and I am cynical about pursuing other ends in this willfully politics-blind isolated manner, impressiveness of their achievements having a slightly tragic qua…

Competitions are defined by their constraints. You are arguing for the doped olympics. A defensible stance but not self evident as default.

Since wealth is concentrated more and more into a minority, redistributing wealth is surely aligned with increasing the quality of life for a majority of people. Why do you say it …

I think the big problems the OP alluded to are more about politics and cohesion than these neat science puzzles. Medical innovation does not inspire me when the medical system whic…

Conversation & social matters are so variable and vibe based that I think trying to get grip on something like 'likability' via a metric like 'contributions ratio' seems absurd.

Everyone vaguely informed about this story knows it was a scam. Reporting anything else is untruthful. Why do you defend reporting you know to be untruthful?

The key topic discussed in the OP, which I engaged with in my comment, is the extent to which 'simple logic' fails to map to complex problems. Naturally, sometimes it is appropriat…

This is just bait you didn’t make an attempt to engage with my angle. I write earnestly I’m interested in what you disagree with

I’m not saying anyone should go after them. They followed the rules, how do you go after someone who followed the rules? I’m just saying that it’s still okay to condemn (just as an…

I think it’s still worth being critical of individuals even if they follow all the rules. The super rich have the largest influence on society as a whole. They cast a vote on the s…

The point of the speaker is that /in general/ these types of comparison amount to equivocation of the incommensurable, and this characteristic leads to progressively more unintuiti…

This makes me realise the growth model is a sort of pyramid scheme.

I think you’ve just each used a different sense of the word ‘actual’. Sense 1) “‘Actual’ mathematics does not consist in notational embodiments” ‘Actual’ as in essence rather than …

being able to talk to strangers in a way that is comfortable and interesting is a form of smartness in itself that should be self evident. The prescribed meaning of 'smart' is ofte…

I think the sense in which that counts as 'voting' (in the sense of a democratic political system) is only analogous in such a distant tenuous way that it is really a poor use of t…