I think this was pretty enlightening on my side. The Objectivist ethics is really post- (or maybe pre-) Christian; and Rand truly does favor a novel (or ancient) Type of Guy there may be an ethos of arete with industrial characteristics here
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i also noticed some parallels with rationalists while we were recording. in particular that the most vocal critics of each tend to be much dumber than the people whom they criticize
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episode ends with a discussion of qualia generating and evaluating science and technology. I wish in some ways we'd had more time to discuss this. i also mean to say to be clear i am not criticizing shea for pursuing this when I note that it could be abused by wicked people
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specifically because wicked people are going to figure it out anyway and are hypothetical future torture devices really worse than what we had in antiquity I mean I just listened to
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Been really enjoying the podcast. You're doing a great job.
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thanks bud
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