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I just don't think that kind of cryptographic gameplaying will ever be seriously loadbearing. There are far higher bandwidth ways of... -
When we refuse to admit the interchangeable character of ideas, blood flows… firm resolves draw the dagger; fiery eyes presage...
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I'm frustrated because we, collectively, don't even seem capable of agreeing on what the equation is in the first place. It's the...
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entertainment replied to the thread An Emergent Order.I agree with version. If philosophers and debaters were genuinely serious, they would basically just go "hmm i don't know" at every...
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Right, but what I'm finding is that what happens is you can learn more about the frameworks, but that ultimately the frameworks are the...
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entertainment replied to the thread An Emergent Order.Yeah in a way it's completely unserious to talk in this way, that's true. It was bad under the pandemic with all the world...
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entertainment replied to the thread An Emergent Order.Don't know if I even buy the narrative that he has shifted things for good. Might be business as usual again before we know it.
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entertainment replied to the thread An Emergent Order.It is definitely more interesting when the evil force dominating our world is of some sort of cryptic, non-human nature. Which is why...
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entertainment replied to the thread An Emergent Order.I have no idea what this guy is talking about. But the pleasure in Trump is surely that the political-economic system, which we have...
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entertainment replied to the thread American Artlessness."There is absolutely no reason in the world why a man in America may not write exactly what he feels, in any form that suits him, and if...
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entertainment replied to the thread American Artlessness.You can say that if you care about sincerety you end up evaluating art through a crude binary that has no sensibility for the variety...
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entertainment replied to the thread American Artlessness.I think it's still sort of interesting. This returning to sincerety as a final criterion seems a misguided idea. In a way, sincerety...
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entertainment replied to the thread American Artlessness.I agree that some criterion of honesty is necessary, especially in a market economy. Don't know this can be conceptually rescued from...
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entertainment replied to the thread American Artlessness.That there's no such thing. And that there's a sort of indulgence in its appeal. Which english culture has evolved to weed out in all...
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entertainment replied to the thread American Artlessness.Sincerety is a very American concept isn't it, and central I guess to the artlessness indictment. Trilling, David Foster Wallace...
