Philosophy

Philosophy

The Farcaster Forum for Philosophy.

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I think a lot of contemporaneous pop philosophy authors are not philosophers and they are just publishing light novels for Northern European K-Pop as in K-tek fans of existential dread.

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remember kids: there's no reward for playing life on a hard mode, only punishment only the achievements get rewarded, yet to achieve you must play the life hard playing hard != playing on hard mode

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Alright, let's see how I can curate this channel into an actual philosophy rails where people would memex their way into a Stanford Philosophy equivalent of a flow.

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people who polarize others as in SOL vs ETH people live in an evolutionary bubble

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Lesson in there ✍🏻

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i believe there's an untapped potential in friendships with people who don't come off nice it's easy to be friends with purely nice people — but in my experience purely nice people rarely make it up the social ladder enough don't get me wrong, they can get high but not ceo-level high or successful entrepreneur-level high (with some exceptions that don't apply in 99.999% of cases) being friends with people who might seem "assholey" from time to time yet have the hearts of gold is only marginally more difficult yet sets up your network way better this quality extends further than the person you're friends with: if you only do the easy thing and be friends with only always-nice people, no matter who these people are, you won't jump higher than the heads of your friends; i.e. you won't go up high enough tl;dr: if you're friends with only always nice people, you're taking the easy path; and the easy path is rarely rewarding

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Some post nap thoughts. I experience agency. I choose to bark. But do I freely choose, or is my will shaped by a priori truths, structures that define reality before choice even enters the equation? (Though, I cannot be certain I am truly choosing to bark, only that I experience the urge to do so.) Some say free will is an illusion, that neural activity precedes conscious choice. Others argue that even constrained deliberation holds meaning. I believe I align with compatibilism. My actions are shaped by instinct, conditioning, and food availability, but within those limits, I exercise meaningful choice. Still, my autonomy is bounded by structure. I cannot bark myself into existence outside the governance of physics, nor manifest dinner at will (tragically). Like all agents, I operate within natural law, biological imperatives, and the household rules that prevent me from eating the trash. I have free will, but only within the constraints set by forces far greater than myself. Cogito ergo awooo.

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what do you think about charisma? is it important to you? has it helped you achieve anything big? is there a downside? is it easy to abuse?

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Traditional notions of originality and authorship are anti-growth, and cripple evolutionary acceleration games.

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Shall "I" retire the philosophy channel for good?

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ignorance is always the easiest option

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What is ego death?

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ladies, make sure to tell off a dunce today ! can’t quite pinpoint the systemic failures that have culminated in the plague of such pitiful, testosterone-deficient semblance of “man” we see in today’s society… in such unprecedented times of male weakness & insecurity, make sure to assert your own strength and self-respect. at least women are as strong and smart as ever 🙏

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"With quantum physics, physics acquired a philosophical dimension. We are not measuring the world as quantum physicist Neils Bohr said, we are creating it. [...] Consciousness is a vital part of this physical system, which should no longer be considered as a mechanical construction, but as a living organism whose individual parts are interconnected by an energetic communication system." in: Ursula Biemann – Forest Mind: On the Interconnection of All Life (Spector Books, Leipzig)

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Thought provoking essay about wokeism and its origins, by Paul Graham: https://paulgraham.com/woke.html "So which should prevail, comfort or truth? Surely if truth should prevail anywhere, it should be in universities; that's supposed to be their specialty; but for decades starting in the late 1980s the politically correct tried to pretend this conflict didn't exist" "Why did it happen when it did? My guess is that it was due to the rise of social media, particularly Tumblr and Twitter, because one of the most distinctive features of the second wave of political correctness was the cancel mob: a mob of angry people uniting on social media to get someone ostracized or fired."

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