/philosophy/ - Philosophy

>>5213

Nanomachines aren't magic, Anon. When you die, you die for good. His insistence upon nanomachines is nothing more than a wishful thinking fantasy to escape the primal fear of death.

>>5220

this is 100% ignorance. we've been able to live with artificial hearts for years; death is always caused by something, not "old age"

I could go on and on and on but not wasting my time with such idiotic thinking. you can say it's not rational but is a logical possibility. if you disagree you need to read a fucking book sometime

Modern update of Rationalist lopsided tribalist philosophy.

The sequences are a species of too little too late. If you don't already know them, then reading the sequences won't help. They're baldly obvious if you can think clearly. If you can't think clearly, being handed the products of clear thinking merely enable your epistemic insanity.

>>835

^^^^

>>5196

Robots spontaneously developing consciousness is about as likely as robots spontaneously developing antigravity for hovering.

Remember, intelligence is omnipotence. If you want to live forever, the only barrier isn't the second law of thermodynamics or anything like that, but how smart you are!

>>648

Real philosophers treat English like math. Let X = 8. Let 'philosophy' = 'the study of logic.' If it's not precise enough, make it more precise.

Remember that cells ARE nanomachines. Metallic nanomachines will hardly be able to do anything that moist carbon nanomachines can't already do.

E.g. the grey goo scenario literally already happened. Only it was green, from chlorophyll. You may notice the biosphere survived, and Earth is still here.

>>5021

>Fuck Diogenes

>>5066

>small brain

>>5021

>normie brain

Plato and Diogenes are both badasses who could would feed you your children for breakfast...metaphorically speaking.

>>4127

Modern politicians are all practicing Sophists. If you want what Gorgias would say about a thing, just ask your local rep what they would say about it.

The difference is that Gorgias said things that appealed to local Greeks, whereas your local rep (or a revived Gorgias) will say things that appeal to your locals.

>>4127

wasn't plato a sophist just more hypocritical though? he wrote 38 books to prove that black is white

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. Mark Twain

It is never more difficult to make someone understand a concept than someone whose paycheque depends on them not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

Voltaire's and Sagan's quotes are so similar:

“You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe”

Carl Sagan

It's difficult to reason a person out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

- Someone probably

>>5259

wtf I hate Christianity now

http://lesswrong.com/lw/k8/how_to_seem_and_be_deep/

>>2838

>sexist

>>>/reddit/

>hopelessly sexist, autocratic, and life denying

>being this much of an altruistic, cosmopolitan, humanist shill

nigger please.

>>5538

read up on Arianism, pls.

heresy that was condemned at Nicea that permeates itself thru Christian Liberalism and Secular Humanism alike.

you can kill an ideology's adherents but you can't kill an ideology itself, ipso facto.

Traditionalist Christianity has nothing whatsoever to do with that, and to imply that is a typical autheist making naked abstractions and universalist dialectics.

If you try to make art as philosophy, you get bad philosophy and worse art.

If you try to make a song that's philosophy first and a song second, you will get bad philosophy, and a worse song. If instead you let the song be the best song it can be, it will have very little in the way of philosophy left in it.

industrial was very good at dialectics

That he was forever separated from perfect knowledge of the good.

The one with the problem is you, Anon. He was making a sincere attempt at breaking completely new ground. It's not easy.

Aristotle was much better

he made it pretty clear why women make terrible rulers

Wherefore women are more compassionate and more readily made to weep, more jealous and querulous, founder of the railing, and more contentious. The female also is more subject to depression of spirits and despair than the male. She is also more shameless and false, more readily deceived, and more mindful of injury, more watchful, more idle, and on the whole less excitable than the male. On the contrary, the male is more ready to help, and, as it has been said, braver than the female; and even in malaria, if the sepia is struck with a trident, the male comes to help the female, but the female makes her escape if the male is struck."

You experience this illusion because you've been surrounded by your intellectual inferiors your whole life. Leave your home and find a place where you will frequently be the least intelligent person in the room, and you will be able to grow and learn far more than ever before.

>>5433

Its the default flag, so everyone gets it by default.

because you enjoy pleasing yourself sexually.

>>4664

He was filled with the Spirit of the LORD

>>4666

Get thee behind me Satan

>>4664

I heard he was afraid of being anywhere near women. First MGTOW?

>>4694

I'm pretty sure he had a child out of wedlock, so no

Hey normie. What's up? GTFO.

>was he right?

Who cares! Maybe he had autism! And then we wouldn't have been able to have a beer together!

falling down the rabbit hole into autism is the final red pill

>>5418

Spot on. DSM won't help you with your depression.

>>5419

Not exactly. The TV laughter is a good example. The solipsist thinks, "It sounds like someone else laughing about something totally unrelated to me, but actually it's me laughing at me." OP thinks, "I know it's someone else laughing about something that isn't me, but it sounds like they're laughing at me."

>>5424

That's what I get " it's me laughing at me" And that I think that laughter is malicious or something I have to improve myself to, my humility

>>4919

Learn something you dont know that is difficult. Read or learn something beyond your capacity. It both makes you humble and cures solipsism. Shit, play a difficult video game

>>4919

no you are not alone. most Solipsists are maladjusts like you and I. Kafkatrapping is very real but the backfire from us can be worse. its like gaslighting by liberal idealists. the Enlightenment era created a lot of societal outcasts. the only answer to the eternal question is shooting us back to the dark ages. where the real ubermensch will show himself.

I would play against him because I don't speak German.

>If Adolf Hitler were actually real

I thought this was a joke on holocaust not being real but then I started wondering what the FUCK you actually meant because I'm pretty sure people don't deny Adolf existing.

Anyways, probably against him. Yeah he's tough and all but socialism is no-go and he wouldn't have made all that money without trading with countries and then entering war with them..

So far, he has a history of loosing wars. I'd probably not want to be on his side. However, I don't like picking sides. So I may or may not just flip a coin if I had to make the choice.

probably would rather act as a mediator.

>no third option.

>>5479

>>5480

Okay so, where do I begin with this one

>People who do dumb things are continental, for continental philosophers are people who do dumb things. Trust me.

I would rather not!

>Emiya Shirou/Archer

So I googled this, result that comes most likely is http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Shirou_Emiya

Why are you using japanese anime in a argument?

>>5481

Emiya Shirou has given more meaningful monologues than Jesus Christ and got followers, like an extreme Jesus, and of course any sef-sacrificing Jesus philosophy not grounded in logic will fail.

>>5482

>Some anime character has given monologues than Jesus Christ

Oh fuck, I have been hooked

>>4895

Dawkins is basically a modernist version of Janus Pifrons.

Stoicism is a life plan, and a subsidiary epistemology. Idealism is a cosmology.

I've heard my beliefs being described as a mix of "pre-modernism" and "meta-modernism" not sure if that's idealistic or not. most quizzes give me Platonism.

The latin alphabet used to as well. all written languages are hieroglyph shorthand

>>5518

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>>4158

Funny, after posting that... post, I decided to check him out more in-depth, found HHH, and now I'm a few vids into it. This guy does rule.

>>4164

His Anselm vids are really good too. I learned a lot from him about Anselm

>>4082

>>4158

Sadler does seem to have potential. He might know something I don't know, but it just takes so long to wade through all the stuff I already know...

Anyone have a tip for something he covers that seems particular obscure?

https://www.youtube.com/user/carneadesofcyrene

>>4079

>School of Life

Literal trash. The video on the mind body problem was something like

<It's when you, like, don't like the way you look

Don't watch youtube as a substitute for reading the actual book

>>5491

We have good reason to not pay much attention to ideas that are unlikely to be true. There isn't time to give every crackpot an ear when he steps on the soapbox; atheists tend to think you need to earn respect and aren't automatically entitled it by virtue of being alive. Of course this is an anonymous image board, but I don't take this place or the posters here that seriously.

>>5492

That's a very fair position. For myself, I don't discount crackpots because some aspect of truth and some aspect of falsehood can be gleaned from nearly any statement, even if it's just something symbolic that you and your intuition made up. Like all good and mediocre Discordians, I hold the firm belief that I should hold no firm beliefs, but that includes the firm belief that somebody's firm belief is entirely false.

>>5493

That's fine when you have the time, but I'd rather listen to rational people because I live in a large enough city that I can avoid the company of people I don't like. I have met too many easily offended Christians who throw a fit at anything you say, even if it has nothing to do with religion. They tend to be prejudiced crackpots with poor methodologies for reaching the truth.

>>5505

The time's going to pass anyways, and I'm in no rush. I spent 8 months going to hundreds of Bible studies and practicing Christianity, praying several times a day, and whatnot. There's definitely some learning to be done concerning matters that most atheist thinkers would never touch, but truth can definitely be found more quickly elsewhere.

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