• @Amoeba_Girl
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    86 months ago

    The false dichotomy between “material/biology/physics-based” and “metaphysical i.e. fake” is everywhere in everything lesswrong outputs yet it never fails to annoy me. Sometimes I wish I could take these people aside and bully some sense into them, but due to their nazi leanings maybe being selfdestructively wrong and stupid is a fitting punishment.

    • David GerardOPMA
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      86 months ago

      you would almost think these people were doing philosophy while deliberately learning fuck all about it

      • @ogoftheskye
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        106 months ago

        They skim read some utilitarianism, which is a limited school of thought (if it has any value at all), and jumped straight to “fuck yes! This is everything!”

        • David GerardOPMA
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          86 months ago

          “at last! I can do some really telling thought experiments!”

        • @gerikson
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          76 months ago

          This is very undergraduate.

      • @Amoeba_Girl
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        76 months ago

        ties big yud and scott up in her basement, forces them to go through the critique of pure reason giving them a werther’s every time they manage to genuinely engage with the ideas

        • David GerardOPMA
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          66 months ago

          scott’s undergrad degree, he FUCKING MAJORED IN PHILOSOPHY