Murali

Memes my friends made of me when I was in panel at #wcb2024

Stickman got exposed to gamma radiation.

@stefanauer_hku Yes, David Schmidtz, Loren Lomasky, Fabienne Peter, Chandran Kukathas, Steven Wall, Will Kymlicka, Kim Brownlee are among the most fantastic defenders of liberalism currently alive.

Does contemporary liberalism have thinkers of that intellectual caliber though?

@2Philosophical_ How do you define pagan?

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were not “pagans”: they were classical monotheists. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

@readingnmath @HQNewsNow Yes, but you could choose not to fight this one.

@HQNewsNow Wars cost money. But they are inevitable in fortunes of humans. There has never been a country that never had to fight one. Just as you are fighting a war here with your words and it is costing you emotional energy.

Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following: $510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research $82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated) $61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated) $240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated) $659 million - Community building grants $47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated) $449 million - Economic development grants for communities $1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA) $993 million - Scientific research and technology standards $150 million - Support for American exports and trade $2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs $8.5 billion - Funding for public schools $1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated) $2.7 billion - College access and higher education support $15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects $1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated) $1.1 billion - Scientific research funding $386 million - Environmental cleanup programs $150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research $4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated) $768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance $819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children $775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated) $5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention $5 billion - Medical research (NIH) $129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research $356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response $1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants $707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure $52 million - Airport and transportation security $40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats $53 million - Funding for homeland security operations $3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated) $1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated) $393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness $529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated) $489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities $50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated) $60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws $58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated) $45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated) $1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety $20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated) $1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated) $395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated) $234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs $101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws $46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad $2 billion - International humanitarian aid $1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated) $4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs $2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships $642 million - International economic and treasury programs $315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad $486 million - Grants for public transit projects $4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure $372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities $145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure $204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities $1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement $100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated) $1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection $2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds $90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated) $3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research $297 million - NASA technology innovation programs $1.1 billion - International Space Station operations $143 million - STEM education programs $309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs $170 million - Small Business Administration operations $158 million - Loans for small businesses

@worst_account Lol. I'm not sure how much this changes things given that Rockwell and Rothbard were themselves the source of the moral rot in the organization.

@amurali284 Hoppe no longer affiliated

Will the current LvMI drama ultimately result in them being destroyed (or at least diminished) as an organization, being improved as an organization (either in moral substance, academic rigor, org culture, or in some other way), or will they basically come out of it unchanged?

How about this: open.substack.com/pub/richardhan…

@Logocentrist @TheFP @sapinker You mean Afghanistan where women are not allowed to get educated?

The only societies that have ever tried to be truly secular - removing religion not just from government but from culture and education - were the officially atheist communist regimes that once governed a third of the world's population. Every one of them became a moral disaster. Countries often framed as uniquely “secular,” like Sweden or Denmark, are not culturally secular. They are historically Christian societies whose moral frameworks still reflect that inheritance, even if belief has declined. Indeed, Christianity is taught in their schools and they long maintained state churches. Civilizations are never neutral. Western societies remain culturally Christian in the same way that places such as Afghanistan or Pakistan are culturally Islamic. Even the concept of separating church and state emerged within an overwhelmingly Christian civilization.

Can a “rational” approach to morality be fully divorced from religious ethics? @SAPinker says the answer doesn’t require God. “Why should you care for the needy? Why should you refrain from murder? You can’t possibly say that the only reason to do it is because God will punish you in an afterlife.” @DouthatNYT says that Pinker’s reason-based ethics rely on the Judeo-Christian culture in which he lives: “What happens in Dr. Pinker’s argument is that as an heir of Jewish and Christian civilization, he imports, as this kind of commonsensical position, metaphysical propositions about the existence of these human rights.”

@Belstain @ridiculoustimes @hell_line0 Some of the most blatant misogyny I saw when it came to the pregnancies and post partum care was from senior nurses and lactation consultants who in some cases shamed women who had difficulty expressing enough milk. A lot of gendered oppression is performed by women in to women.

@ridiculoustimes @hell_line0 There is a flip side to knowing what it's like though. Some doctors put too much stock in their own personal experiences rather than that of their patients. The woman that delivered my 2nd kid was more dismissive of my wife's concerns than the men that delivered our 1st and 3rd.

Women are allowed to feel uncomfortable with male gynecologists . The pushback women get for saying that is not neutral, it is dismissive. There’s a long history of obstetric violence, and research shows women’s pain and concerns are often minimized in healthcare. Women do not owe men access to their bodies. Shaming them for that is enforcing patriarchy.

@h_blaubear This seems false, at least, if you are using opinion and thought in the ordinary sense of the term.

@HeidiBriones @HannahDCox Your idiot of a president can ruin the rest of our lives. America is still the most powerful country both economically and militarily. Bad decisions on your part can screw up our lives in a way that bad decisions on my part cannot screw up yours.

@HannahDCox It's actually insane. So many people depend on discussing US politics to make a living all around the world. Is this good? I think we've seen the effects and it seems not great so far. We are more divided than ever and people are profiting off that.

These foreign accounts are like super pressed they might now make money off American politics anymore. Which begs a few questions: 1. How much are they even getting off this platform and why? 2. Why don't they want to talk about their own country's politics?

@xriskology @robbensinger @karenvanhoek You'd have to say that the world is not better off even if it is populated by morally better beings who are better off in terms of wellbeing (however you calculate that). If such a world contains more value than than the current world, you should desire that it obtains.

@xriskology @robbensinger @karenvanhoek Now you might dispute whether this is achievable in practice and whether we could ever reliably determine that such a species exists, but if the antecedent obtains its hard to deny the consequent without also endorsing something morally perverse.

I'm very much on the side of the protestors here who oppose human extinction. I'm definitely NOT on the side of the protestors who align with pro-extinctionists like Eliezer Yudkowsky. Please, understand who you migh tbe standing next to. truthdig.com/articles/under…

Also, there are two pop culture Easter eggs in this article. Try to see if you can find them.

For the full details of the arguments, please read the whole paper. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Justifiability is about making explicit what makes a decision correct (if it is indeed correct).

What's the difference? Algorithmic transparency is about making explicit how the algorithm reached its result. E.g. what weights it placed on what considerations.