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Seeing into the True Nature: reason #21,066 reason to distrust all scientific studies

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Seeing into the True Nature. Reason #21,066 reason to distrust all scientific studies. Originally posted November 21, 2016. I see a lot of people claiming that jobs are good for people, because jobs give life more meaning. They point to studies "showing" that people are happier when employed than unemployed, even when "controlling" for just giving people money. Needless to say I haven't read any of these, because I am not in the habit of filling my brain with motivated bullshit. Now first of all, really?

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Seeing into the True Nature: My Weirdest Ethical Belief

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Seeing into the True Nature. My Weirdest Ethical Belief. Originally published June 25, 2016. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Metamoxie. see also here. The thought to which all thoughts eventually retur. Reason #21,066 reason to distrust all scientific s. Conflation vs. Erroneous Splitting. My Weirdest Ethical Belief. Three Old School Epistemic Essays. A hundred petty preferences. ten thousand unimport. Missing Vocabulary I: sweeping under the rug. Why do you even think that. Its Not a Telephone Game.

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Seeing into the True Nature: the thought to which all thoughts eventually return, as if it were the bottom of the cognitive bowl

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Seeing into the True Nature. The thought to which all thoughts eventually return, as if it were the bottom of the cognitive bowl. See also: The Monster. How is so weak and imperfect a creature as individual man, isolated and wretched, shorn from community, ejected from egregore and unable to assimilate, supposed to make the world a better place? December 18, 2016 at 7:52 PM. Acceptance before change is possible is a theme that pops up again and again in my travels through psychotherapy, phenomenology, an...

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Seeing into the True Nature: Ergonomics

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Seeing into the True Nature. Originally posted October 24, 2016. Look at these fucking buttons:. I have to hit these buttons many times per day, always with the same overworked left thumb. They are terrible buttons and I have a mild repetitive strain injury. Does anyone other than video game console manufacturers? Look at this beautiful goddamn artifact:. Which popularized the useful concept of affordance. Hopefully I can at least listen to the audiobook some day. I play video games on my prematurely agi...

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Seeing into the True Nature: Scavenging

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Seeing into the True Nature. Originally published April 3, 2016. I've been homeless and unemployed for a long time. So I started scavenging out of necessity. But I would keep doing it even if I had were employed and dignified, to save money and prevent waste. It's smart and cool, like all forms of frugality. When you're a veg*n. My original idea for this post also included some guidelines for what discarded foods are good and what are bad, with the obligatory "your health is your responsibility, not mine...

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Why Ritual? | The View from Hell

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The View from Hell. The search for patterns and the thickening of meaning. February 9, 2015. February 9, 2015. Ritual is just “going through the motions.” Is that a bad thing? Think about saying “I love you” to a romantic partner. It might be sincere, or it might not be; how can you prove it? Supply Everyone With Every Nutrient →. One thought on “ Why Ritual? February 9, 2015 at 3:14 am. Http:/ www.believermag.com/issues/201402/? One Hundred Imaginary Gifts from the Simulators. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Implied Implication: Motions of Meaningness

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Presenting trivial consequences under the guise of profundity. Everything I've Implied So Far. 17 May, 2016. This is a riff on David Chapman's forever incomplete Meaningness. Html book. Knowing what the hell that is not required, or beneficial really. I just. Borrow his terminology to point at a neat pattern that would probably better suit a series of twitter postings. Epistemic Status: I writing this late at night; expect moderate incoherence. Occaisionally when checking a musical album, for example, I'...

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Implied Implication: Quotes #1

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Presenting trivial consequences under the guise of profundity. Everything I've Implied So Far. 23 May, 2016. A collection of interesting passages I've come across in the interim. From Greg Egan's Diaspora. Inoshiro said, "I feel great compassion for all conscious beings. But there's nothing to be done. There will always be suffering. There will always be death.". Oh, will you listen to yourself? You sound like that phosphoric acid replicator you fried outside Atlanta! Good luck and bon voyage? It was an ...

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Implied Implication: January 2016

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Presenting trivial consequences under the guise of profundity. Everything I've Implied So Far. 28 January, 2016. 25 January, 2016. You are a Pattern-Matching Agent. Or, My (crude) model of human thought. Epistemic Status: Plausible, but uncertain. Then, I read Dennets Consciousness Explained. Havent finished it, of course, but that might be fixed in a few months (Im a busy dude). Its not a drawing book, in case youre wondering, but something I read in it made me think that perusing basic competence i...

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Implied Implication: Hierarchy of Conventions

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Presenting trivial consequences under the guise of profundity. Everything I've Implied So Far. 10 May, 2016. Epistemic Status: Useful and Likely. This concept frequently comes up when I explain this idea to my friends, so I'm primarily writing this so I have a convenient place to link them the next time I have to explain it. At the first level, we must ask ourselves 'is this convention useful'. I'll unpack that last bullet of jargon. A homomorphism is an algebraic equivalence which essentially means ...