Ha! Yes. Perhaps that's exactly what Noah was talking about. >8^) But to be
fair, we're all toddlers to some extent. I've always been confused about why
child-like is a compliment but childish is an insult.
On December 8, 2016 5:54:43 PM PST, Steven A Smith wrote:
>... reminds me of a famous l
correction-"Euthyphrotic" and "Euthyphro" (and to think I once studied
Greek!)
Εὐθύφρων (bah!)
Glen -
You (or I) too could perhaps have 15 seconds of (in)fame if you can
engage "his Orangeness" in a Eurythrophetic twitter exchange on the
definition of Piety (or "what is a Wall?" or ..
Glen -
You (or I) too could perhaps have 15 seconds of (in)fame if you can
engage "his Orangeness" in a Eurythrophetic twitter exchange on the
definition of Piety (or "what is a Wall?" or ... "what is a Hoax?"...
"what is a Climate?", "what is a landslide")...
Reviewing their exchange (Socra
I dunno about "pure". But it definitely reminded me of Euthyphro.
On 12/08/2016 03:56 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> I'm not sure this is pure Socratic, but does carry it's form... it is a bit
> passive aggressive and/or manipulative to deserve such an idealized term,
> don't you think?
--
☣ gl
Little Glennie -
Sorry for the sloppy linking... I DO think it works with all of us when
we are being petulant/belligerent in our willful beliefs. I have
already shifted my confrontational mode (looming, lowering my voice,
narrowing my eyes) with Trumpsters and trying variations of the Trevo
That's all too reasonable to argue with. 8^(
On 12/08/2016 02:58 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> I think it is more likely he does it to collect data. It's how he figures
> out what his fans want -- perhaps how he knows anything at all-- he wants
> people to reveal the binding. If he just wanted
That link didn't work for me. But here's another one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P1IVQJdVvE
I know that strategy works because people use it on me all the time! 8^) I
think those dastardly elites call it "Socratic".
On 12/08/2016 02:49 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> It sounds almost lik
"If we assume Trump is the master of ambiguous linguistics Lakoff thinks he is,
then he already understands this, at least tacitly. Trump (under this idea)
purposefully forms his expressions so that there are unbound variables that are
likely to be bound by the listener."
I think it is more li
Glen (Marcus) -
I could see that would be useful to model politics (esp. high school popularity
contests), but it can already hard to model complex things with pairs never
mind many body terms. I suspect someone like Trump really is pairwise in his
interactions. It works because no one in
On 12/08/2016 11:43 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> What I mean is that there can be sufficient disequilibrium in the global
> system such that an agent could be reasonably well aware of the impact of the
> system on them and their impact on the system, and nonetheless act in a way
> that decreases
"Social justice diversifies the type of energy barriers on which to cut our
teeth."
Yep.
"Well, I was arguing narrowly against the idea that simulation doesn't "get at"
the question of why a selfish individual should care about the efficacy of the
biosphere. Video/VR games directly target wha
On 12/07/2016 07:55 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
There are other kinds of energy barriers besides catastrophes. Climbing a
hill is different than falling in a hole and having to climb out again.
Taking on debt or forcing everyone to buy car or health insurance, say.
Right, which is what I'm
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