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3 weeks 4 days ago

Don't be a dick....

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3 weeks 4 days ago

Good...good...he's clearly outlined the warp and woof distinction...😁

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3 weeks 5 days ago

"Instructors can impart only a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life."
- Morihei Ueshiba

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3 weeks 5 days ago

I disagree with this. If the truth is explained well, then the misunderstanding is an individual occurrence. If it is not explained well, then this doesn't apply.

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3 weeks 6 days ago

You'd think things would change in a connected world.....at least for the moment....nothing has changed...

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3 weeks 6 days ago

This could be a reply to the previous post: Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. -Teresa of Avila

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3 weeks 6 days ago

But, this is not mutually exclusive. For instance, I focus on universality because if people can't understand justice, they'll never be fair and good to each other. If they're not fair and good, they're rapacious and opportunistic.

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4 weeks ago

I'm not sure where this answer falls, but ethics, productive morality, justice, fairness and goodness are balanced measures of human life. No doubt this is truth.

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4 weeks ago

That is philosophy...exactly....

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4 weeks ago

"When a change occurs in Nature, the quantity of action necessary for that change is as small as possible."
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis

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4 weeks 1 day ago

You have to ask yourself, what is the ideal language? The ideal conversation would be one where world models are presented as increasingly better options until a conclusion. This is what AI is starting to do.....have conversations using a form....

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4 weeks 1 day ago

There's nothing physically precluding humanity from doing the right thing. As for generosity, that won't even be a virtue in a post scarcity world....

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4 weeks 1 day ago

"Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity."
- Simone Weil

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4 weeks 1 day ago

Also, the quickest path to neglect duty....

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4 weeks 1 day ago

What's crazy to me is that the situation for basic education has become so bad it's not even necessary for you create something new, help develop a new direction and so forth....just posting the great ideas of the past alone is fighting the fight that has to be won, the battle against brain eroding anti-intellectualism.

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1 month ago

I think of it like a tree. Even if you stop studying philosophy or critical thinking itself the seed you planted begins growth that just happens by living in the world with the tools you have.

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