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Marxist analysis is analysing history in terms of material dialecticism, that is, viewing history in terms of a unity of opposites of material factors, and thereby learning from history by observing when balances of opposites of material factors were more or less optimal, and thus understanding...

I had been aware that most Western nations had been suffering a negative birth rate for decades. However, I was not aware that Australia had the same issue, as it seemed to not suffer the problems of most Western countries. So it seems to me that this indicates that the issue is a global...

In those words, you've basically summed up Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the Will to Truth.

Yes. The following is all necessary. But it seems long. Posters here dislike my long posts. So I put my answer and explanations in a spoiler. "Read or do not read. There is no try" (Paraphrasing Yoda).

Fair enough. Yes. The issue has been that when corporations have the money to hire expensive lawyers to protect their patents, and corporations have the money to hire expensive lawyers to find a way around individual inventors' patents. Yes, but corporations aren't people. The people employed...

Why? So: what jobs am I getting done, that today are done by ChatGPT, that were done by people yesterday? We didn't see anyone protesting in the early 2000s, when lots and lots of humans who worked in the printing industry were losing their jobs to computers and being made homeless because...

Yes. But most of that wasn't because of Google. People making sites on the internet where people could chat and exchange ideas? BB boards in the 1980s. Pretty images & videos on the internet? HTML. Interactive pages? Javascript and its offshoots(jQuery, NodeJS, AngularJS, etc). People...

Ever since the Upgrade, whenever I open my browser and open tabs with threads from this site. they all say "Oops!" with a button. When I press the button and it takes me to this thread, then when I refresh the other tabs, they all go to the correct pages. It's like there's some script that...

Your issue is one of frustration, one that makes perfect sense, when you examine things objectively. The feminist narrative is that: 1) Women should be free to be as sexual as they like. 2) It is wrong to sexually objectify women. 3) This should be encouraged by SJWs complaining about it, not...

It sounds like you are saying that AI is just a better version of Google. We already have Google. All it means then, is an acceleration of the current direction of the world. Besides, I've been using search engines since 1995, and Google since 2000. Those who can't code, can't seem to make...

Developing new novels, art, music, technology and products of any kind, requires a heavy investment. If others will simply copy yours and sell it for cheaper, then you've spent a fortune and got nothing for it. This situation resulted in technology & products being treated as close-guarded trade...

Both of these claims have been made since the 1960s by the media, which has had the effect of convincing most parents and grandparents to not try to teach their kids anything useful, and to convince most young people not to learn anything from their parents and grandparents. This has had the...

This question has bothered great thinkers for thousands of years, thinkers who put a man on the Moon. If ChatGPT is that much smarter than they are that it can answer what they cannot, why hasn't it figured out how to put a man on Mars? If it was, then at the speed of modern computers, by about...

It's produced by Sam Raimi. So I'm hoping for some really weird & really twisted plotlines, something like Evil Dead or Darkman, or maybe something Strange.

I grew up in the 1970s, watching films like Salem's Lot, and TV series like Sapphire & Steel. Lots of conceptual horror back then. That sort of thing actually happened, because some people would go into a deep coma, where they only took a breath once a minute and incredibly slowly, and would be...

I've seen stuff happen in real life and can see the difference, which is stark. So for me, unless the fiction matches what I already know happens in real life, it's just more Hogwarts.

Laws should be questioned and debated. Otherwise, how will they change? Why not indeed? Argue the case. Federalism has been the worst cop-out in nearly all of humanity. We all know the capitalist Trumpists of this world control the Federalist state. Under Federalism? The Federal government...

I don't know that they do, other than Mary Whitehouse, and that was only in the 1980s. Gore/extreme horror films have been extremely conventional and mainstream for the past 40 years. Sensor genre.

Since Einstein was born in 1879, I think that makes you 143 years old!

In the interest of not haranguing for ages, for now, I'm going to skip even evaluating the claims you made up to this point in the post. Yes, I see the problem. You started a thread claiming that "philosophy is dangerous", because it was dangerous to you, and on that basis, you assumed that it...

I appreciate that. I used to play Space Invaders, Chuckie Egg, Defender, Doom and Duke Nukem on my home computer Also, Galaga, Asteroids, and lots of others at arcades and on friends' consoles and computers. I'd say that I enjoyed Duke Nukem the most. I've played other games since, like Halo and...

It seems to me that these days, a lot of people seem to think that everyone should agree with them, and say what they want to hear, and if they don't, they must be trolling. This seems grossly unlike a friend. Example: Imagine if you had an idea to take heroin. But you are unsure if that's a...

Übermensch is just a German word for "superman". So he would rise to power, the same way as any other super-capable, super-smart person would. He would present his ideas to his superiors, who would see that his ideas make them much more money and grant them much more success than his...

I've been observing the trend towards subscription models ever since the late 1990s, when IT managers started complaining about Microsoft pushing a per-connection licence system, over a per-user licence system. The desire to move towards subscription models in the software market is a result of...

Adam Smith said that capitalism brings the best to the market, when the environment is such that companies try to compete for customers by making better and better products and services. If, however, the environment has not been set up to encourage companies to make more money by making better...

I can't say I've ever heard or read of great thinkers like Newton, Boyle, Maxwell, Avicenna, Averroes, Augustine of Hippo, Thomas of Acquinas, ever using terms like "noetic knowledge", "prudential knowledge", and "sapiential knowledge". I've only ever heard philosophy majors using terms like...

We are going in circles for a few very simple reasons. 1) I would say that your description of "wisdom" is more akin to what most people call "philosophy". Most people say that philosophy is a waste of time, or in your case, "dangerous", because it is foolishness that one is better off NOT...

I looked this up. I stand corrected. Thank you. Well, it seems to, with respect to CPUs. It has just been applied lately to GPUs, and to the number of cores. Do you agree with that? Yes. It's just that it hasn't happened yet. Do you agree with that? If you agree, then the question remains...

It's the lack of usefulness in what Modernists call "philosophy", that makes so many people turn against philosophy. But then, that's probably intentional. If philosophy was useful, then so is what Socrates had to say, and then it's worth studying the past as well as the Modern, and tehn...

Moore's law is about the speed of a single core of a CPU, not a GPU. What you are implying, is that Moore's law tapped out in 2000, and so motherboard designers chose to start making GPUs faster instead, by doing for GPUs what they did for CPUs. But why didn't they do that before? Because they...

You can tell someone that taking drugs is dangerous. Doesn't mean they'll listen. Sounds like he is saying that amateurs are a pain in the backside. If you started drinking bleach, but thought it was safe, and then discovered how harmful it was, why would you keep drinking it? Sounds like you...

Agenda 21, Naomi Wolf's 10 steps to fascism. Don't know, Naomi Wolf. All of them. Moore's Law is about the speed of a single core of a CPU, which kept getting faster and faster until about 2000, when it reached about 2.5GHz. It really hasn't gotten that much faster., not compared to the...

Si = What happened in the past => tells me what to do in the present to achieve my desired future. Ni = Desired future => what to do in the present to achieve my desired future. Se = what's happening now. Ne = what might happen in the future. Ti = Understanding how A leads to B helps me to...

When I was 23, I heard the conspiracy theories but didn't believe them. I am shocked to see how many of them have been coming true around the time that was predicted. If that is all that happens, they should count themselves very fortunate indeed. I remember back in 1988, when a friend of mine...

Of course you can warn people against doing something stupid. If you tell people to not drink bleach, you think they'd drink bleach? Hume and Kant wrote their books to be read. Of course reading Hume and Kant would be good things. But if you read Hume and Kant with the wrong attitude, then even...

This post interested me. So I looked up the Frankfurt School. From what I read, they were Marxists in the 1920s who were dissatisfied with the political & economic theories of the time, i.e. capitalism, communism and fascism. Basically, they wanted to change the world to make it better, but...

I had not noticed the contradiction before. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. The people who advocate for unconditional acceptance of transgenderism and redefining gender roles, also are the same people who said that Trump was both the stupidest person in the entire world, and was a...

Modernism (valuing what is "modern", what is "new") is an attitude that became very popular in the 1700s, that thanks to things like science and democracy, humans are only ever advancing forwards and never going backwards, and thus the only things we humans need to do is to learn and embrace the...

It was an expression from a film I like ("10 things I hate about you"). Gif 1 Gif 2 Gif 3

Congress doesn't seem to care. But then who else seems to? These days, a lot of people are being asked to donate to such causes. Might as well start building a Foundation now, on the terrestrial equivalent of Terminus, so that the rebuilding of civilisation takes 150 years, instead of 1,500...

The current breed of politicians don't seem all that keen to make things better for most people, young or old. They seem to be quite keen on killing off the old people, judging by the way they allowed people to spread COVID-19 through care homes like crazy. Mind you, 20 years ago, I heard...

Analysis is like vitamins. In small amounts, they improve whatever you have already. But in large doses, at best, you just p*ss it out the other end, and it's a total waste of your time & effort. Those who are "devout" about analysis will probably end up spend so much time analysing that they...

I gather that a lot more people in Western countries make the effort to learn Elvish than make the effort to learn Biblical Hebrew. Except that LOTR is quite literally fiction, and even the most diehard of LOTR fans could not deny that Tolkien himself would say he made it up. You can't test it...

They could have done that already. We all know it's the right-wingers who have 99.9% of the guns, and they're the ones who are supposed to love shooting them at people. Something more extreme than currently, is if the US declares bankruptcy and goes into administration, to be bought by a...

I wonder if Harry Potter (and the game) would be as popular if Hogwarts were called "Swine-boils".

Considering that the UK has been through 12 years of consecutive conservative rule, and the USA has just had 4 years of what most people believe is the most right-wing president ever, and several states have passed extremely anti-abortion legislation, if things swing significantly more...

Because then we wouldn't be blaming other people for the problems we made, and having to fix the problems we caused, ourselves. We'd actually have to get up off our backsides and make some effort. Because those who stand to gain from "divide and conquer", and who have the authority and power to...

I guess I wasn't clear enough about what I meant here by "intelligent". You can be as smart as Oppenheimer and still be persuaded to make a nuclear bomb. But if you are usefully intelligent in the form of wisdom, and you know what really matters, then you will probably realise that you'll...

I was late posting here too. Ironic. Depends on what you mean by "spiritual" and "practical", as they are just random rows of symbols that we can say mean anything. But essentially, the religious person answers to a calling and an authority that is higher than himself. That becomes relevant...

People thinking they are "entitled" to things without following the legal or social procedures that they can rely upon to claim them. False impressions. E.G. being told that you ARE "entitled" to claim certain benefits from the government, but without being told HOW to claim those things from...