Felagund
12d ago
The only one I've read that you haven't listed is Unsong. But I'm trying to stay away from internet serials for the time being, because they can suck enormous amounts of time.
Felagund
23d ago
I'd be surprised if the Nobel people would be willing to give him a peace prize.
Felagund
23d ago
For me, the NYT article doxxing Scott->SSC->themotte. But I also read through a ton of LessWrong stuff along the way, and then HPMOR and Unsong.
Felagund
23d ago
6: "This part of Twitter," where postrationalists like eigenrobot hang out.
9.I think this has something to do with a system of government that operates using market-based predictions of the future in some way, but I don't remember exactly.
18: Read Unsong. I mean, read it all, but just the page linked should suffice to understand 18.
Felagund
23d ago
For me: Understand: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.
Have heard, but don't remember exact meaning (but maybe approximate): 9, 11, 20.
Except Ra****y_An***m?
(Name partially removed lest there's some reason they can't be spoken about)
Felagund
29d ago
Eh, I don't think that's always true, more words can make things clearer. For example, using examples is often helpful.
Felagund
1mo ago
And more simply, the suppression of true religion is opposition to God himself. That is bad.
Atheistically, if you care about modern liberalism, that would suffice as a reason, what with tolerance being worthwhile and all.
Felagund
1mo ago
Not permitting a population to hold political office is very different from attempting to eliminate a population by force.
What does "force their morality" mean? What is your morality? I don't like all the imprecision of the language here.
Felagund
1mo ago
the people you try to repress
What does "repress" mean?
before trying to force their religious morality on secular people
What does "religious morality" mean here? What are the bounds of "religious morality" vs. "definitely-not-religious-totally-universal morality"? If Raskolnikov says that he thinks that killing people is just fine, would you say that society as a whole is obligated to listen to him?
You think they're demonic
Where did I say this?
the demonic people don't feel like giving you medical treatment.
I have no problem with freedom of association, provided that we exist in a society with available alternatives.
Felagund
1mo ago
I'm trying to avoid debating the entirety of conservatism, but that's obviously a No True Christian fallacy.
What's the sample that you're drawing from? Since I mostly have experience from churches and similar, and those tend to have pretty good families as far as I can tell.
Felagund
1mo ago
The conservative project relies on an idyllic view of the past and of conservative families, which can be hard to maintain when you’ve seen it from the inside. My grandparents ‘s generation were all very religious, and so it was common for spouses to hate each other all their life.
But certainly not all families are like that. I was raised in a happy family, and, to my knowledge, have mostly encountered happy families at church and so forth.
Do conservatives usually say that these things just happen by default? I'm more used to conceptualizing things as natural tendencies or roles, which we then have a responsibility and a duty to actually carry out.
Felagund
1mo ago
Why is IVF more important than every other part of being a productive citizen? Especially given that it's not like Christians are being at all successful in getting rid of it.
The fact that you seem to be sincerely arguing for this makes me considerably more positive towards the times when being a Christian was a prerequisite for holding public office.
But is there a principled reason why they shouldn't do those things?
Yes. My religion is correct. Accordingly, doing any of that is evil.
But ignoring that, as hydroacetylene says, a classical liberal might think that it would be morally wrong to do that. Further, it's not like everyone will stop if you just ask nicely. You're going to have to kill a bunch of people. What benefit do you have that's worth killing a bunch of productive citizens?
Felagund
1mo ago
Body positivity has normalized obesity.
Has it actually, or do people just pretend that?
Felagund
1mo ago
Keep in mind, as you're trying to beat the market, that short and long term trades may be taxed differently, and adjust what your meaning of "beat" is accordingly.
Felagund
1mo ago
Regarding Lord of the Rings: if she's expecting it to be more hobbit, she will be surprised, what with it being slower and more epic (grander, more serious) in feel.
And ancestrally there's also a pretty large share of German and French (Huguenot) ancestry, and a small sliver of various other races (the Khoekhoe peoples native to the Cape, who are the largest portion of the ancestry of the Coloured population (Coloured≠Black), as well as from various slave populations from elsewhere in Africa or Asia). It's not like Afrikaners are pureblooded Dutchmen.
What is an American, in your book?
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