A Lot Of Arguments Against Immigration Are Arguments For Anti-Natalism
"The children are taking our jobs"
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Episode 51 - When What Other People Do Just Doesn't Make Sense
we sometimes get people wrong by assuming they're more like us than they are
What Continental Philosophy Defenders Cannot Explain
How we know continental philosophy is largely nonsense
Resources On Simone De Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity
25 lectures in video and podcast format on this key work of existentialist ethics
Ethical Non-Cognitivism: Are Ethical Judgments More Like Desires Than Beliefs?
Ethical non-cognitivists argue that ethical judgments are, strictly speaking, not beliefs: they are expressions of emotions, or commands, or expressions of approval or some other non-cognitive mental
Quantum Existentialism
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Leading Insect Farm Took Millions In Subsidies, Then Collapsed Into A Waking Nightmare
The dark underbelly of insect farming
Patterns without desires
The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them? - by Noah Charney Read on Aeon
Upcoming Online Workshop: The Stoic Heart (Saturday, April 18)
Three Stoic Shifts To Stop Reactive Conflict & Build Real Connection
What To Do In Iran?
Why I don't think the policy of threatening to destroy a civilization, and then chickening out, is optimal.
Why A Liberal Arts Education Will Soon Be More Valuable Than Ever
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Random acts of anachronism: How to carry on the digital fast
Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are.
What you call gate keeping I call quality control
In defense of quality editors, criticis, and peer reviewers
Travelling at the speed of light
A mind-bending trip into the cosmos aboard a speculative (yet theoretically possible) spacecraft near the speed of light - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
White-collar sweatshops
How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work? - by Dylan Gottlieb Read on Aeon
Project Hail Mary
âThe science in Project Hail Mary is all pretty firmly grounded.
Open Thread 428.5 + Zagreb Update
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Burn The Stars
But if we shouldn't, God exists
When AI Day of Reckoning?
The world has invested lots in AI over the last few years, and many expect a crash soon.
Your opinion, please
From poetry to politics, this radio show asked listeners to speak their minds. Decades later, their words still resonate - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Zagreb Meetup This Friday
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Alasdair MacIntyreâs Philosophical Work as Christian Philosophy
a paper presented in the Erasmus Institute Summer Faculty Fellowship, led by Alasdair MacIntyre
The Eradication Of Grief
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Political Slop
The ubiquity of nonsense
Atheism is not a faith
An open letter to Christopher Beha
Living without my self
Our culture valorises the big, coherent self: reading Robert Musil helps me embrace the beauty of my no-self existence - by Mette Leonard Høeg Read on Aeon
Marcus Aureliusâ Advice For Taming Our Anger (Part 3)
the three first gifts from the Muses
Landscapes
Two poems by George Dibble.
Some Political Errors
Dozens of errors in no particular order
Is AI already conscious?
Why itâs difficult and perhaps even morally perilous to rule out the possibility of AI consciousness - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The antibiotic trap
Easy access to desperately needed drugs has made India the global accelerant of our antimicrobial resistance crisis - by Assa Doron & Alex Broom Read on Aeon
Open Thread 428
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Two Places at Once
Then there was lightâtoo much of it.
A Reading Recommendation: Miguel De Unamuno's Tragic Sense Of Life
an existentialist classic you don't want to miss out on
Our Uphill Battle
I recently said our civ will fall if we do not find finish the industrial revolution, and apply the industry trio of math, big orgs, and capitalism to more areas of life.
Humans Killed the Megafauna
A bunch of big animals went extinct around when humans arrived. Scholars disagree about why.
Quam minimum
Well, JSR is still on book leave. So deep is he in his work, in fact, weâre told that if you rouse him in the middle of the night and order him to tell you what year it is, he will stammer out: âI don
If You're To Die
Leaving a mark on the world
More Fatal Conceits
In The Fatal Conceit (1988), F.A.
Suggested Readings
A few recommendations by Figs in Winter for your reading pleasure
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