@daniel_dsj2110 I mean, all kinds of things are possible, it’s a low bar.
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Saganism@Saganismm
“When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.” — Richard Dawkins
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@jonathanbfine “Trotting out their (our?) notions,” is how I put it in another exchange.
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Boomers academic who can barely use AI trying to sell it to Gen Z who use it to attain grades, yet are terrified it will take their jobs.
It doesn't get more absurd and ironic.
LeisureTime TV@Leisure_TimeTV
Shocker. Graduates dont love AI as much as the boomers using it to replace their jobs.
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Book of the New Sun is so much better than Dune that it's funny. And I like Dune.
The ReReading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客@ReReadingWolfe
I don't agree but I'm reposting. Rules are rules.
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@zeChedli It also doesn’t have the jarring problem of not being filmed in the appropriate language.
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@fredleept Thay says something similar in The Healing Power of Prayer.
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The Great Prayer Experiment claims that prayer "doesn't work." Well, when I say I'm praying for you, and you say you are praying for me, we are expressing concern for each other. I'm pretty sure that works.
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What’s the best example of a polity in which “conservative liberalism” has been able to resist the encroachment and eventual dominance of left-liberalism (i.e. progressivism)? Is there one?
Štefan Auer@stefanauer_hku
We need sane liberalism. Conservative liberalism build on the likes Burke and Tocqueville.
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Martin Heidegger on the English:
"What, other than engineering and metaphysically paving the way for socialism, other than commonplace thinking and tastelessness, has England contributed in terms of 'culture'?"
--from the Black Notebooks (h/t Harrison Fluss)
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@jasonachristian More in line with Orwell to speak of agreement or disagreement rather than correct or incorrect in politics.
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Say what you will about Orwell's politics, but he was 100% correct about the use of stock phrases degrading our ability to write and think clearly (e.g. "the call is coming from inside the house"). Add to that AI, and we have only begun to see the pervasive cognitive decline.
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Methodology section of a paper using qualitative analysis
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@MattPolProf If intellectual curiosity is at odds with anything it is partisanship as such. This isn’t necessarily a critique but seems like more of a truism.
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I dont no. There are a few good right wing critics of the left Ive singled out. Mansfield's latest book is a good example. Scruton's Fools, Frauds and Firebrands is pretty good.
But by and large the standards or engagement are low, and that thread is an example of just that...
Merlin@Merlin67684223
@MattPolProf I think it tells us a lot about the individual who wrote the article, not people on the right as a whole. Or do you seriously suppose that intellectual curiosity is a creature of only those on the left?
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We're living through a crisis of knowledge and trust in institutions. This new piece argues that a common diagnosis--we're overdoing politics--is wrong. The real problem is the lack of avenues for meaningful political activity. Link in the reply.
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Weber gave the right explanation. Its seldom the case that the well off are just content with their affluence. They want to believe it was earned and deserved, leading them to mysticism.
You see popular conservatives like D'Souza and Shapiro articulate this need all the time 👇
Russ Greene@GreenPlusAnE
Has anyone written about how the American right embraced meritocracy? It went from being a satirical concept, and rejected by Hayek and Sowell, to supposedly the antidote to DEI and affirmative action. But the original vulnerabilities of meritocracy were never addressed.
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@pitjuan08 It’s not even about consciousness. It’s about the computation. There is no explicit computation of these shapes by the system.
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seems to me that the way AI will exceed human intelligence isn't by increasing its capacity, but by decreasing ours
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