1/ I love the Enlightenment. I hate authoritarianism. ...it took us less than 250 years to go from "kings shouldn't tell us what to do" to "gender isn't real, IQ isn't real, black skin is holy and white skin is sinful, a cult founded by a child rapist is a religion of peace"
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2/ The biggest intellectual project, and the most important one I can imagine, is trying to fashion an Enlightenment 2.0 that does not spontaneously cut its own dick off and then prostrate itself before gutter ideologies.
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3/ Is this possible? Or is the suicide baked into the cake, and it's just a simple matter of the state machine running forward to its inevitable end state? I don't know.
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Replying to @MorlockP
The answer to this depends on your view of the nature of human beings.
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Replying to @CrownMaybe
no it doesn't; it depends on one's view of the engineering state space
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Replying to @MorlockP
That seems sort of like saying that the cart's movement is dependent entirely on the spacing, number, and shape of the wheels, rather than on whether there are horses pulling it.
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Replying to @CrownMaybe
no it says "given that horses pull a cart, is it possible to design a set of wheels such that ____ ".
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Replying to @MorlockP
Well, running with your analogy, it should be, "Given that immortal and tireless horses pull a cart, is it possible to design a set of unbreakable wheels such that _____."
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yes somehow we have roads, despite the human condition somehow we have farms, despite the human condition somehow we have courts that function acceptably well (better than pure barbarism), in most countries, through most of history, despite the human condition
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