spent the afternoon (really the afternoon) recording with @shlevy
the first hour is a discussion of Objectivism, and the history and tenets thereof, delivered by shea and peppered with my questions about how it relates to various fictional charactershttps://soundcloud.com/user-557955426/episode-15-eigenrobot-vs-shea …
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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
@thocpodcast on Lady Qi yesterday big yikeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consort_QiShow this thread -
anyway great thanks to
@shlevy for talking, I had a blast <3Show this thread
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Yeah, she considered herself as completing Aristotle in a lot of ways, including ethically.
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