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Vitalist/BAP/Nietzsche Metaphysics Question
BAP - drawing from Nietzsche et al., but perhaps more explicitly - discusses an “innate intelligence” in nature. Some kind of conscious (or at least intentional) entity with its own ends and purposes.... posted 3d ago with 5 replies received philosophy nietzsche

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As one of the harder "materialists" around here, the vitalists are right there is an innate intelligence in nature. Start with Darwin: the results of the mutation-selection organism-design process that we call evolution look pretty intelligent. We can deny... 1d ago received

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Medidation, Enlightenment, Dharma, and Sokushinbutsu
I see we have some enlightenment-seeking buddhist types lurking around. I have a question for them: what is it you think is valuable about these "enlightened" mental states reachable with meditation etc? I hear about them occasionally but by the self-admis... posted 7d ago with 12 replies received philosophy rationality

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I think the main problem here is that people like to over-mysticize "enlightenment" and have vastly different things in their heads when they say this, especially amongst "believers."... 5d ago received

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There is a phrase in the Pali Canon that is used frequently that goes something like "the Buddha teaches a Dhamma that is good in its beginning, good in its middle, and good in its end" and this is exactly why you might want to leverage the ideas even when... 5d ago received

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In justifying yourself in terms of the beauty of the accomplishment itself and not your own short-circuited subjective assessment of it, you are one step closer to enlightenment. Let's go a step further: Archimedes and Buddha did not win eternal fame for h... 2d ago received

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"Cosmic Alignment" is almost right. Life is the answer
Philosopher it-girl Ginevra Davis gave a great talk on "Cosmic Alignment" the other day. I was glad to see serious thinking against the current paradigm of "AI Alignment". Her argument is that alignment makes three big unsupported speculations:... posted 2w ago with 11 replies received philosophy superintelligence gnon

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What bothers me in these AI alignment debates is the bizarrely abstract idea of intelligence--as if it’s some pure, disembodied will-to-power or will-to-intelligence, with no ecology, no lineage. The orthogonality thesis is especially guilty: it imagines... 2w ago received

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I call this "faith in being." It is the primordial form of faith. One may or may not have more particular faith in particular things (revelations, ancestors, familial relations) but one must have faith in being, or one will be lost in nihilism. 7d ago received

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Welcome to Sofie Channel. Curated anonymous discussion about life and philosophy.
I've been working on a little something in the background for the past year, and more earnestly for the past few months. It's a new social media platform designed to curate a high quality discourse community about whatever topics are important to us.... posted 1y ago with 30 replies received meta philosophy

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The high reputation poster is a bore and a lout of the highest order. As his reputation trends upwards the amount of information conveyed per post trends to zero. “On this topic the Socratics has this to say—” I can barely stomach this already. See h... 1y ago received

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Thanks. So far so good and i have a lot of ideas for how to improve the taste machine further. The main bottleneck at this point i think is we have to bootstrap a network of good discussion here. Then with scale we will see more clearly the problems requir... 1w ago received

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Political philosophy vs Natural science
Strauss on Hobbes... posted 2w ago with 2 replies received philosophy

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I agree with Hobbes there is quite a strong distinction between political philosophy and natural science, at least in methodology. Natural science is strongest at creating tight predictive frameworks for external non-living phenomena, out of which we can b... 2w ago received

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Was Cypher Right?: Why We Stay In Our Matrix (Hanson, 2002)
https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/matrix.html posted 2w ago with 2 replies received philosophy

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Fuck you anon_gwjy, this is a good link. 2w ago received

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Phenomenology as useful turbo-autism
I was reading the Heraclitus fragments this weekend, and luckily my pdf had the Greek alongside English. Fragment 10 says "Φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ", which was translated as "Things keep their secrets". My Greek knowledge, despite being ... posted 4w ago with 4 replies received philosophy bookclub

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You should check out THE ART AND THOUGHT OF HERACLITUS by Kahn. Lots of commentary on Heraclitus filters his fragments through Aristotle and other later philosopher's interpretation. Kahn attempts a purely textual exegesis which attempts to reconstruct Her... 3w ago received

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These resources are all very good — thank you to everyone who's replied. I think given the tenor so far we should just turn this into a spergathon of posting the best Greek resources. Please continue with hidden gems, forbidden texts, and generally the m... 2w ago received

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Is Unitarianism the true religion of the coming civilization?
Jefferson didn't quite get the dates right, but I offer the provocation that he was right in spirit about Unitarianism. Unitarianism takes the best of the Christian tradition and broader European philosophical tradition, and unifies and purifies it of supe... posted 2mo ago with 27 replies received philosophy gnon

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For present purposes, I'll pass over theological debates about Christian revelation, and simply note the sociological fact that actually existing Unitarianism is pure shitlibery. In fact it's among the most shitlib of all Christian-adjacent configurations.... 2mo ago received

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I was very moved by this post and so I went to my local Unitarian church and explained to them all that we have discussed here. They called the police on me. 1mo ago received

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You are right about these things. I will attempt what you have specified. But i'm still lacking two things: a good hook, and "what's the point". We can be as right as we like about philosophy and so on but if there isn't some actual operational program tha... 1mo ago received

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A Hidden Gem
One of the reasons I am posting here is to discover some hidden gems that cannot be found easily elsewhere on the web.... (www.sscnet.ucla.edu) posted 1y ago with 9 replies received philosophy bookclub

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This is really interesting. Struggle is the principle that creates life, health, and truth, and it has justice to it. I have not heard of this so I will have to go read it. Is there a good english translation you recommend? Looks like archive has the germa... 1y ago received

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Othmar Spann is a hidden gem i've been working through recently, he's overlooked in the Continental tradition but a great companion piece to Spengler, Hegel, and Yockey. One of the few Catholic writers in the Germanic Continental tradition, even more rare ... 1mo ago received

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Share your art here
My aesthetic project: https://aeonofthedaughter.com/ (aeonofthedaughter.com) posted 2mo ago with no replies received philosophy

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The absolute civilizational game is expansion across the universe until finding God
https://buttondown.com/tZero19e/archive/the-point-of-human-existence-the-purpose-of/ posted 3mo ago with 1 reply received philosophy

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tZero19e might as well be tweeting at this point, he'd have less of an opportunity to shoot himself in the foot by trying to pass off these half-baked 'logs' as argumentation. I feel like I'm reading a high schooler who reads twitter with these things.... 2mo ago received

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The Slice of Life Mindset
Consider a slice-of-life anime and what it chooses to romanticize. Commuting to work, preparing a meal, reading a book, drinking some tea, watching a movie. The characters are typically unambitious, the opposite of a shonen character who sacrifices everyth... posted 3mo ago with 2 replies received philosophy

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I like this wholesomeposting. Interesting you connect Ayn Rand to slice-of-life philosophy. It's a sort of lifestyle wu-wei: just be clear on your code of values and try to live it as directly as possible, and refuse to apologize or compromise. To your poi... 3mo ago received

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Yes. I do a few different things that help turn boring moments into extraordinary ones. One is to notice and thank God for everything. The small bird perched on a branch, the sun peaking over rooftops, or a nice drive in the car. It doesn't matter how ever... 3mo ago received

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The devil's argument against the falseness of eden, and God's reason for evil
I have been bothered for some time by the idea that Eden is either coherent or desirable. This idea is implicit in the problem of evil: we see that reality is different from Eden in that it includes a bunch of scary dangerous uncomfortable stuff we would r... posted 4mo ago with 6 replies received accelerationism philosophy

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Most Christians are faggots just like everyone else in modern societies and even the good minority are deeply confused. The Church fucked up transmission of knowledge a long time ago, which explains why it's in such a pathetic state and why it's valid for ... 4mo ago received

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The point of the story isn't that the devil is good or even that the devil was right. It’s that this creation (physical reality) is the good one, the pain in it is part of a greater plan and beauty, and the paradise imagined by bronze age semites is fake... 3mo ago received

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Who's the next political philosopher?
From x dot com:... posted 13mo ago with 2 replies received philosophy

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I was surprised that Byung-Chul Han, named last month "the internet's new favorite philosopher" wasn't mentioned, but I suppose one can be buzzy in one part of the internet without attracting the attention of another. Maybe he is not a "political philosoph... 13mo ago received

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The beach is the only place of enjoyment that the human species has discovered in nature.
I went to the beach today and wanted to write about it. I don’t have a manifesto. The beach makes me feel good.... posted 13mo ago with 4 replies received philosophy

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I have not read Lefebvre, but it sounds similar to thoughts I've had. The beach, the real one out there on the coast and not just some piece of watery sand on the local waterway, is a little slice of titanic permanently wild landscape. Civilization can't r... 13mo ago received

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Learning from the Other/making sense of the past: Zhang Jingsheng's utopia of German aestheticism and Confucian statecraft
It seems to me that there have been several conversations here lately that circle back to the idea of lessons from the Other as one part of progress. It seems to come down to the idea that America, embarking on its own Century of Humiliation, or at least i... posted 13mo ago with 1 reply received history philosophy

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There would also be a complicated quasi-religious system put in place. He is against feudal superstitions, and imagines instead a system of belief based on aesthetics. He calls for the construction of temples devoted to the cultivation and worship of aesth... 13mo ago received

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Based Japanese Education
A few months ago, I encountered one of the most based tweets that I have ever seen. My Japanese is mediocre, so this is largely a machine translation, but I will try to do her writing and the classical poetry justice.... (twitter.com) posted 1y ago with 6 replies received history philosophy

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There are a few guess for the time of the composition, possibly after the poet was discharged from his duties by the emperor in 744. It would match the mood. I like this version in Taiwanese Hokkien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nuUz0NZJtg.... 1y ago received

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Why religions are good but we need new ones
I think people in modern times do not understand religion and are far too quick to dismiss them, probably because of defects they can point to in existing popular ones. Like the tenets of the popular Abrahamic religions. Sure, Abrahamic religions do have l... posted 1y ago with 6 replies received philosophy

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Take it up in the materialism thread. >>1754 1y ago received

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On Religion
IMO, the #1 insight I've absorbed from our general sphere is a far better grasp of the holistic significance of religion and theology within human society. In this regard, I found Wolf's article on Abraham especially insightful. I especially owe him for hi... posted 1y ago with 13 replies received politics philosophy

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Glorious. Right on. With respect to the other transcendentals, I've recently been thinking the way we should launch this philosophical movement is radicalizing around the natural law ("The Idea") operationalization of Truth. Beauty is very charismatic, but... 1y ago received

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Don't Learn Value From Society. A meditation on slavecoin and abrahamic one-foot-in-one-foot out strategy.
https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/07/13/dont-learn-your-values-from-society/ posted 1y ago with 2 replies received philosophy

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I've read and re-read this essay and keep returning to it. It helped explain the nefarious effect in my life of some Bay area subcultures. And I've quit a useless master's (credentialism) to pursue more Abrahamic-value courses of action. - coyotespike 1y ago received

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The Post-Liberal Synthesis. The founding essay of the Governance Futurism project.
https://www.palladiummag.com/2018/09/29/towards-the-post-liberal-synthesis/ posted 1y ago with 3 replies received philosophy

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Yes. "Post-Liberal" rapidly became a useless label colonized by insincere pseudo-movements.... 1y ago received

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Nietzsche - Homer's Contest
Some of you may have already seen this piece; I think it’s worth revisiting following the book club. In it Nietzsche offers more details on the relation between tyrant/warrior and philosopher/artist in the ancient Greek polis. It’s another of his early... posted 1y ago with 5 replies received philosophy nietzsche

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Yeah there's a phase shift with Plato to philosophy as a self-conscious program and type, with a politics. Alamariu points out tyranny and proto-philosophy existed for a while pre-plato, but true philosophy only really comes into being with xenophon and th... 1y ago received

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The martial art of ideology
The best idea on Lesswrong was the martial art of rationality. It didn't deliver.... posted 2y ago with 24 replies received philosophy rationality

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Rationality is the virtue of thought and I think it's good to keep the term around, but it isn't the father of virtue, since sometimes it is prudent to stop thinking, and because a lot of activities are better without thought.... 2y ago received

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Interesting. I need to be more consistent with the Romanization. It is a pet peeve of mine that the usual Romanization of the Peking dialect promulgated by the government... 1y ago received

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on facing death
how should one face death? the two common/standard answers i see are to ignore death entirely, which i think is the atheistic standard, with doctors avoiding being frank about a patient's death and schools never really bringing it up, and few people thinki... posted 2y ago with 17 replies received philosophy

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I think when i was a bugman atheist I was secretly terrified of death, that was the root cause of extropianism/transhumanism/radical life extensionism... it's just fear of death.... 2y ago received

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Don't be a fat.
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Dieting beyond what is comfortable for your digestion seems much more energetically taxing than simply increasing your activity, which actually *builds* your energy. The human body is a perfect example of a structure that becomes more, not less powerful th... 2y ago received

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Ideology is not for arguing or justifying. It is for living.
A forum is an ideological thunderdome in which we can train the martial art of ideology.... posted 2y ago with 9 replies received politics philosophy

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