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in thread "Utopia Slop":

If you want to understand what is wrong with the modern building aesthetic, you need to learn about building codes and labor costs. They provide the constraints that lead to the same uniform, standardized, plain, prefabricated, compliant boxes that everyon... 4w ago received

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The litmus test to determine what one really means by this vision might be the TWA terminal.... 3w ago received

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in thread "What goes on the reading list for the Students?":

I believe this post has it right - start with people, not dead trees. If the books offer value, turn to them at the moment that they are practically relevant. It's certainly good for everyone to have a broad understanding of the landscape of wisdom out the... 3mo ago received

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What is special about Westerners? I think we all sense that the Western striving for truth is special and perhaps unique. So we disagree a lot. We are often divided by doctrines. We entertain a wild untamed forest of ideas. Perhaps this is a weakness that ... 2mo ago received

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in thread "Political systems and the mess we are in":

I’d like to surface the theory of Our Democracy as a complex of institutions rather than any particular voting mechanism or suffrage rule. Different mechanisms and rules have existed in the US in the past and at the end of that line of development lies u... 3mo ago received

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*For examples see: income tax (constitutional amendment passed because initially scoped to ~1% of Americans, now covers practically everyone), civil asset forfeiture (initially aimed at only drug seizures, now the cops can legally take your stuff almost wi... 3mo ago received

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in thread "Horrorism vs Vitalism":

There is no unbounded exponential growth in nature. There is always a limiting factor, but that limiting factor isn't always a negative feedback loop - it can simply be that the resources fueling the growth ran out. I'd even conjecture that that is the com... 4mo ago received

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Perhaps to reframe a little - survival and replication are the fundamental mathematical imperatives of existence. The only question is "what is the basic unit of survival and replication"? If you believe it is the civilization itself then vitalism means so... 4mo ago received

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Bro what is the difference between self-evident and as you put it... 4mo ago received

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You've produced an interesting frane - thank you. While reading what you wrote it occurred to me that self-evident and axiomatic are indeed almost polar opposites, for the reason that axioms often take a great deal of thinking to uncover. One could view al... 3mo ago received

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