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Does it really matter? Nazis called themselves socialists.
North Korea is a democratic people’s republic.
I regret saying this as a joke since I don’t know enough about North Korea. Even to make jokes about it.
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... so at some point, one realizes one has pondered one's way into untestables and goes back to living. Or doesn't, I guess, and then gets kept up at night anxious about the notion that in some as-yet-unrealized future, an AI is forever torturing an identical copy of oneself that one cannot possibly ever meet. The programming analogy to this kind of philosophy is writing design docs (or building a class hierarchy of…
It contradicts the ideals of an evidence based system of values. Most of what we believe we believe because we think it is right, and there's always , more or less, viable arguments for most of any remotely reasonable view. And this applies to all people. For instance it was none other than Max Planck that observed, "Science progresses one funeral at a time." I also think this is for the best. If one looks at the evi…
At the same time, however, Einstein's theory was confirmed by direct observation of the gravitational lensing of starlight past our sun during an eclipse.
The difference, to my mind, between science and philosophy is that the philosophy of relativity can exist independent of such confirming evidence. But the scientific theory cannot.
It's always important, when dabbling in philosophy, to keep track of when one has wandered so far out on the branch of reason that one is no longer supported by the trunk of evidence.