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> Glen is right. I was quoting McKi
: Re: [FRIAM] “Don’t they have grandchildren?” was The case for
universal basic income UBI
Glen is right. I was quoting McKibbon writing about Weintrobe. Of course I did
that because I thought that see made an important point. Here's the extract
again.
"Weintrobe writes tha
Glen is right. I was quoting McKibbon writing about Weintrobe. Of course I
did that because I thought that see made an important point. Here's the
extract again.
"Weintrobe writes that people’s psyches are divided into caring and
uncaring parts, and the conflict between them “is at the heart of g
Thank you DaveW, I support this!
On Sat, 22 May 2021 at 04:53, Prof David West wrote:
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> What started the problem (at least in the West)"
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> *"Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our
> likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
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What started the problem (at least in the West)"
*"Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our
likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the
earth, and over every
Sorry. I admire your memory.
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On Fri, May 21, 2021, 3:11 PM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> Only about 100,000 times. >8^D The trick is whether or not you believe
> that sort of modeling is mechanistic or *merely* genera
Only about 100,000 times. >8^D The trick is whether or not you believe that
sort of modeling is mechanistic or *merely* generative.
On 5/21/21 2:08 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> Did I already post this here?
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> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228446085_Simulation_validation_using_Caus
Did I already post this here?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228446085_Simulation_validation_using_Causal_Inference_Theory_with_morphological_constraints#fullTextFileContent
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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM
On Fri, May 21, 2021, 3
Well, to be clear, it wasn't (I don't think) Russ' rhetoric but Weintrobe via
McKibbon. Russ was simply pointing it out to us.
But further, Weintrobe's argument seems to be (I haven't read the book, only a
couple of reviews of it) a mechanistic explanation for how we in the northern
hemisphere
I agree with you. It's very challenging to make sense of the world, and the
human mind is amazing at building generative models of the world and those
models become the reality for the mind. With the models we can make
conclusions and explain how the world actually works. Now the clincher, to
make
There's a layering in the relationship between fact and opinion. And what the
postmodernists warned us about is that many of us are unable to unravel those
layers. The idea that there exist absolute facts and (mere) interpretations of
those facts can often be an indicator for the inability to un
The world is the better for all not having the same views on everything.
Surely there's a difference between facts and opinions? Your "*But it is
*NOT* a sound, sensible, or rational view, any more than a stopped clock is
right twice per day.*" is your opinion, it's not a fact.
Interesting work
Interesting. We hear from righties like Brett Weinstein and Ben Shapiro all the
time how postmodernists' "relativism" is diluting our culture and sending us on
the path to Hell. Is this such a relativism?
I'm reminded of the "all sides" fallacy or the snowflake idea that any
arbitrary opinion
I downloaded a free Kindle sample of Psychological Roots of the Climate
Crisis and scanned through it. I consider it to be a valid view of the
world.
But there are other valid views of the world too, for example The Moral
Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein.
Neither is right or wrong, it simply r
Bill McKibbon writes a regular email sponsored by *The New Yorker* about
climate change. His latest (no link since it's apparently not on the New
Yorker website) how people (or corporations, e.g., oil company executives)
knowingly continue to exacerbate the damage caused by climate change. He
goes
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