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Thread: Is "Be the part of the change you want to see in the world!" bullshit?
Post: RE: Is "Be the part of the change you want to see ...
| https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...cid=author
Here's a useful article, which arrived at two key findings: "That nonviolent protests are effective at mobilizing sympathizers to support the cau... |
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February 3, 2024 at 3:59 pm |
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Thread: Is "Be the part of the change you want to see in the world!" bullshit?
Post: RE: Is "Be the part of the change you want to see ...
| It's a game theoretic problem, something like the volunteer's dilemma. We all benefit as a group from someone doing something about climate change, but individually we are better off if that someone i... |
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John 6IX Breezy |
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February 2, 2024 at 4:22 pm |
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Thread: Ethics of Neutrality
Post: RE: Ethics of Neutrality
| (November 18, 2023 at 9:33 pm)Belacqua Wrote: To me, there are issues on which one should not be neutral. Some things are good, and should be supported. Or if some politician is trying to drum up an... |
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John 6IX Breezy |
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November 20, 2023 at 12:40 am |
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Thread: Ethics of Neutrality
Post: RE: Ethics of Neutrality
| (November 18, 2023 at 11:53 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That takes a hefty dose of neutrality, whether it's genuine or practical.
Your whole response was very well put. |
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November 20, 2023 at 12:40 am |
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Thread: Ethics of Neutrality
Post: RE: Ethics of Neutrality
| I want to clarify that I'm referring more to a personal philosophy of neutrality rather than a national one. It may be the case that one follows from the other, but what I'm interested is in an indivi... |
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Philosophy
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November 18, 2023 at 9:01 pm |
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Thread: Ethics of Neutrality
Post: Ethics of Neutrality
| There are several members that are more knowledgeable about philosophy and ethics than me. So, I would like to see a discussion on the merits and faults of neutrality. This conversation obviously take... |
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November 18, 2023 at 5:33 pm |
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Thread: "Are all actions in life based on interest only"?
Post: RE: "Are all actions in life based on interest onl...
| I came across this map of motivational systems.
[Image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjCJFzhUYAAq...ame=medium] |
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John 6IX Breezy |
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April 16, 2023 at 12:18 pm |
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Thread: "Are all actions in life based on interest only"?
Post: RE: "Are all actions in life based on interest onl...
| I'm interpreting interest to mean personal gain. This is very different from saying there is always a reason for our actions, or even more abstractly that there's always a cause, in which case only ac... |
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April 12, 2023 at 11:55 am |
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Thread: "Are all actions in life based on interest only"?
Post: RE: "Are all actions in life based on interest onl...
| In evolutionary biology there are four common types of social behavior that get studied: Altruism, selfishness, mutual benefit, and spite.
Spite occurs when an animal harms itself in order to harm ot... |
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April 10, 2023 at 6:01 pm |
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Thread: Quotation Errors
Post: Quotation Errors
| https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/1....2020.0538
The replication crisis gets a lot of hype, but there are other issues in science. This article explores quotation errors. |
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John 6IX Breezy |
General Science
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April 10, 2023 at 4:03 pm |
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Thread: What if Judas didn't do it?
Post: RE: What if Judas didn't do it?
| Here's one of my favorite quotes from a book by Janet Borroway:
It argues the perspective that narrative, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, functions like a sandbox where we can play and explore fe... |
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John 6IX Breezy |
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April 2, 2023 at 9:18 pm |
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Thread: What if Judas didn't do it?
Post: RE: What if Judas didn't do it?
| (April 2, 2023 at 7:28 pm)Belacqua Wrote: I think this is crucial. It also pinpoints the difference between those who are comfortable with narrative literature and those who feel that only science c... |
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April 2, 2023 at 8:31 pm |
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Thread: What if Judas didn't do it?
Post: RE: What if Judas didn't do it?
| (April 2, 2023 at 2:57 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: if accuracy does not make a story truer, what does?
There could be a way, I just don't know what it is or how to quantify it. You can imagine how this i... |
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April 2, 2023 at 3:16 pm |
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Thread: What if Judas didn't do it?
Post: RE: What if Judas didn't do it?
| (April 2, 2023 at 12:39 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: The question is do you go on pretending when you have better ways to tell whether it is true or not then “seems”?
I'm not sure you can escape narrative... |
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April 2, 2023 at 1:12 pm |
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Thread: What if Judas didn't do it?
Post: RE: What if Judas didn't do it?
| These are not strange concepts to anyone in the cognitive sciences. Narrative is a big topic of study in the field, from neuroscience to anthropology.
I just googled the term verisimilitude and found... |
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April 2, 2023 at 12:36 pm |
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Thread: What if Judas didn't do it?
Post: RE: What if Judas didn't do it?
| (April 2, 2023 at 6:54 am)Belacqua Wrote: And I'm curious about your take on this. We agree it's not intended as disinterested journalism, but exactly what we should call it remains an interesting q... |
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April 2, 2023 at 11:27 am |
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Thread: What if Judas didn't do it?
Post: RE: What if Judas didn't do it?
| (April 1, 2023 at 7:58 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Because the stories are not simply an account of events, but narratives intended to convey important messages.
I agree with this. That the Biblical stories ... |
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April 1, 2023 at 9:13 pm |
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Thread: What if Judas didn't do it?
Post: RE: What if Judas didn't do it?
| To clarify, narrative ≠ fiction. As the title of the paper suggests, there's a possibility that narrative not only represents reality, but may also constitute it. In the most radical sense, narrative ... |
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April 1, 2023 at 6:45 pm |
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Thread: What if Judas didn't do it?
Post: RE: What if Judas didn't do it?
| (April 1, 2023 at 3:14 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: I don’t know what exactly Neo-Scholastic and John 6IX believe. That is what I want to find out.
My views may not fall neatly into the literalist or non-... |
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April 1, 2023 at 4:04 pm |
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Thread: Is ChatGPT a Chinese Room?
Post: RE: Is ChatGPT a Chinese Room?
| Goosebump Wrote: I am a large language model that is capable of understanding and responding to questions in a way that is similar to the way that humans understand and respond to questions. I believ... |
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