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@Athanasius_45 Aristotle was the first to YOLO

Aristotle wants you to think big: οὐ χρὴ δὲ κατὰ τοὺς παραινοῦντας ἀνθρώπινα φρονεῖν ἄνθρωπον ὄντα οὐδὲ θνητὰ τὸν θνητόν, ἀλλ᾿ ἐφ᾿ ὅσον ἐνδέχεται ἀθανατίζειν καὶ πάντα ποιεῖν πρὸς τὸ ζῆν κατὰ τὸ κράτιστον τῶν ἐν αὑτῷ. - One must not heed the advice to think human thoughts because one is human and mortal thoughts because one is mortal, but so far as is possible to ponder immortal thoughts and to pursue life in a manner according to what is best in oneself. Nicomachean Ethics 1177b

@paul_jkrause Plato is a great writer, maybe one of the greatest. His use of imagery is unparalleled. Aristotle is quite different --plus we only have notes and no polished texts

Why is Plato so memorable and fun to read? He told stories to get us thinking.

@rollingrumble @Athanasius_45 I like them both, but I don't any Greek.

@Athanasius_45 I think it's a wrong translation. "A Lacedemonean man when asked to how many the country is governing, he said, to as many as the spear rules over."

A Spartan answer if there ever was one: Λάκων ἀνὴρ ἐρωτηθεὶς ἐπὶ πόσον αὐτῶν ἡ χώρα διήκει· „ἐφ’ ὅσον ἂν“ εἶπε „τὸ δόρυ ἰσχύῃ“. - A Spartan being asked how far their land extended answered: „As far as the spear is mighty.“ Gnomologium Vaticanum 396

@Athanasius_45 What would an Athenian say?

@paulg But optimism is most needed precisely when it is not possible to be well-informed, when great risks must be taken.

There is nothing more powerful than well-informed optimism. It has to be well-informed though. The "everything will be fine" type of optimism may also be somewhat useful, but it's not as useful as the "Hmm, what if we tried x?" kind.

@PAHoyeck Wittgenstein had a great talent for saying very trivial things in a very gradiose manner and everyone thought he was a genius for that. Maybe he was, in the same way some politicians are geniuses of mass manipulation.

“At death, the world does not alter, but comes to an end. Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. [...]. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

@paulg What year is 0? 2008? I think the business cycle explains it better. 2008 started QE etc. That the smartphone was launched at rpughly the same time is a coincidence.

If Steve Jobs were still alive, he would have the moral authority to face and maybe even to solve this problem. But I doubt anyone in the phone business now does.

@Pergament_F I used to worship him, but now I realize his intellect was far far less than the gradioseness of his statements suggest.

"The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world." Ludwig Wittgenstein

@FischerKing64 G.K. Chesterton was obese and I don't think he saw his lofe as having no meaning.

I think obesity is rooted in people feeling that their lives have no meaning or purpose - every other explanation is minor, even a way to avoid that we’ve created western societies that make people feel useless. This is King Edward VII. He was ‘Prince of Wales’ until he was almost 60, just waiting for his mother Queen Victoria to die. He was called ‘the prince of pleasure,’ which mostly meant consuming staggering quantities of food. 12-15 course meals day after day. Victoria was also a terrible mother - she kept him away from any government business until she was almost at the end of her life and blind. She basically deprived him of having any sense of meaning and value in his life - and so he got fat. To his credit - when he became King he worked hard. He probably killed himself from overwork, too much eating - and too much smoking (you guys promoting tobacco are barking up the wrong tree btw). But he never had a real sense of purpose until he was 60 years old. That would be hard.

@WisdomConquer @nic_munoz The piint is that he is 56, not a 16 or a 26 year old. Eating fast at 26 iz fine.

@iacobbus @nic_munoz You've never had a passion.

Why Elon Musk eats insanely fast: At one point his biographer was having dinner with him and said: "As the food arrived, Musk consumed it. That is, he didn't eat it as much as he made it disappear rapidly with a few gargantuan bites. Desperate to keep Musk happy and chatting, I handed him a big chunk of steak from my plate. The plan worked... for all of ninety seconds. Meat. Hunk. Gone." Bottom line: Elon prioritizes speed in everything he does.

“How does one become stronger? — By coming to decisions slowly, and by clinging tenaciously to what one has decided. Everything else follows.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

@Saganismm No because Plato is irreplaceable.

Russell on Plato and Aristotle “Assuredly Plato was a man of great genius, and Aristotle was comprehensively encyclopedic; but in their modern disciples they can inspire only error. An hour with Galileo or Newton will give you more help towards a sound philosophy than a year with Plato and Aristotle. But if you go to a university, this will not be the opinion of your professors. The scientific spirit, the scientific method, the framework of the scientific world, must be absorbed by any one who wishes to have a philosophic outlook belonging to our time, not a literary antiquarian philosophy fetched out of old books.” — Bertrand Russell, The Art of Philosophizing: And Other Essays

@thdxr You're absolutely right! Want to dive in to some more human computer psychology?

i've said this before but ai replies always perfectly understand me, read charitably and can handle nuance it's human replies that are idiotic this is so messed up

@leisetritt @LexDecs That is a good answer

@LexDecs Well, yes, Nietzsche himself figured it out. He said that good is what serves life and bad is what negates life. "Evil" is simply a name for the parts of life we reject rather than deal with.

They ever figure out what’s beyond good and evil? Maybe even what’s beyond that?

@MerriamWebster That's beacuse the night stars at 8 o'clock obviously. You guys need to step up your game man.

You may have noticed that the word for ‘night’ in many languages appears to be that language’s word for ‘eight’ with an ‘N' in front of it. English: N + eight = Night German: N + acht = Nacht French: N + huit = Nuit Spanish: N + ocho = Noche Italian: N + otto = Notte Portuguese: N + oito = Noite ⬇️

@ylecun @elonmusk The nazi system was based on centralized control of the economy. There were production quotas and everything was stare controlled, private ownership was nominal. That is the very definition of socialism. Besides, NAZI means national socialism.

@elonmusk "Hitler was a socialist" is about as accurate as "Trump is pro democracy"

Hitler was a socialist, therefore all socialists are Hitler

@DawsonSWilliams Wow! I always imagoned him as cold and distant. The guy had a heart afterall.

Wittgenstein was a Socratic midwife to many of his students at Cambridge.

@Naturalphilosy Patently false, as can be esily verified.

“I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, about the importance of the family, about the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity—creation.” — Henry Miller

@benlandautaylor Would add that the libraries and univs already exist. The stock was much lower in Carnegie's day.

Reading another "Why don't rich guys build libraries like Carnegie anymore" article. It's because that's illegal now. In most cities you can barely even build an apartment. Never mind the psychoanalysis, it's just against the law.