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 2mo ago with 4 replies (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 18.6 18.6 Phenomenology as use (view hidden) log in to judge received 18.6 18.6 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... 4w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 11.1 11.1 These resources are (view hidden) log in to judge received 11.1 11.1
in thread "Capitalism is AI ?": Yours is a nice summary that demonstrates good understanding of one of the groundwork ideas of Land. It is probably the first step one must take along the path to some of our native sofilosophy. I don’t know if Meltdown is included in the collection you ... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.2 7.2 Yours is a nice summ (view hidden) log in to judge received 7.2 7.2
in thread "Post-human bodies": Nice provocation. I agree that mass speciation is inevitable, but the timescales do matter if we’re talking about this as an engineering problem. Which we should. I offer the example of Oymyakon, where the average winter temperature is around -50f. It is... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 15.7 15.7 Nice provocation. I (view hidden) log in to judge received 15.7 15.7
in thread "How I came to believe in the goodness of God": This is precisely my belief. I'm sure some of it just rubbed off from OP over the past few years of his writings, but thought I'd add that I got my foundational ultradarwinism from Cormac in Blood Meridian and my Gnon belief from practicing the martial art... 9mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.7 3.7 This is precisely my (view hidden) log in to judge received 3.7 3.7 I had no idea Land cited the exact same passage in Xenosystems. If I hadn't had exposure to him before I would definitely update my priors.... 9mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.6 6.6 I had no idea Land c (view hidden) log in to judge received 6.6 6.6 I read Struggle by Dr. Emmanuel Lasker (as recommended over in >>1429), and these are all terms he invents to talk about a generalized concept of 'struggle'. In Lasker's own words, "Words travel in the brain in fixed channels so that he who wants to expres... 8mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.7 3.7 I read Struggle by D (view hidden) log in to judge received 3.7 3.7
