Matthew Guertin
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A strange little outcast who wanders outside the city walls, thinking and musing | interested in cognitional theory | š³ļøāš | theistic humanist | Isaiah 42:3
New York, USA
Joined December 2023
A new piece over at my...blog this one taking aim at ethical or moral theories that take nature and nature's purposiveness as giving us a set of binding moral obligations. Enjoy! (Link, below.)
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the church's tradition of fawning over imperishability has been so regrettable in that we could've had so many more cool skeletons on display instead of the unaesthetic mummies
Armored skeleton of Saint Pancratius, Church of St Nikolaus, Switzerland
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This is good because it means that only real life is reliable, as is appropriate
šØš³ Weāre screwed ā¦ it becomes indistinguishable from reality Aliās Wan 2.2 lets you stream without showing your face. It maps your voice and motion onto another face.
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In an increasingly algorithmic society going into seclusion will become increasingly meaningful, even useful. The hermit will return. Disappearing will no longer be a gap in the CV, but a prominent line in it, like how it would attract the court's attention in Tang era China
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This is evidence why level-headed conservatives who look at Webbon and his ilk and go, "Wow, INSANE," can recognize that gay marriage is actually the boon they didn't know they needed. In any union of man and man or woman and woman, sure, there's attraction and all, but you're in
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says that women today are dumb, wicked, vile whores: "Women are atrocious today." https://t.co/Oef3oXdWCq
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Manā¦f*ck, going to be you canāt trust anything on a screenā¦catfishing is going to be insaneā¦.omgā¦.
šØš³ Weāre screwed ā¦ it becomes indistinguishable from reality Aliās Wan 2.2 lets you stream without showing your face. It maps your voice and motion onto another face.
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It's kinda bizarre how the guardrails Anerican AI companies put in place to make sure their programs produce only culturally- and socially-acceptable stuff can result in the opposite. Like, I prompted @OpenAI's Sora 2 to produce a clip of a bunch of kids just returning from a
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Pragmatism as a theory of truth is basically indefensible. But like logical positivism, British empiricism, continental rationalism and medieval scholasticism it has important insights which we should allow to transform our worldview before we dismiss it.
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me when I have to kill my industrial capacity and wildly increase pollution because Iām bored
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This is actually not nearly as bad as what my traditionalist and hyperconservative fellow Catholics would do if they had their druthers, for such followers of Christ would rather burn folks like me at the stake.
In Indonesia homosexuals receive 150 lashes and then end up in prison. This is Sharia, this is Islam.
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āmy political ideology is boner-centric derivative slopā checks out
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My issue is this is a textbook motte and bailey. Sure, in the weaker sense itās āverifiedā, but thatās not what philosophers mean when they say āp is verifiedā. As I said thereās sufficient warrant to assert evolution is true, but thatās not verification.
@No5mallf3at I see that I was mistaken to assume that you meant something reasonable by "verified," I apologize.
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Itās a very good costume because if Minions read theory it would be Foucault.
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@analyticatheism Most probable does not in any world equal true and if you believe it does youāve definitely drunken some cool aid. Take not that āempirically verifiableā was the wording of the original post I was responding to, so if thatās not what youāre defending why are you here?
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Heraclitean Dating Advice: Scared of committing to the same woman for the rest of your life? Boy, do I have some good news for you!
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Iām glad people are noticing this. Insurance is the second biggest expense in my life. $2,000 for a family of four, but we still have an out of pocket max of ~$15,000. So healthcare has to be budgeted at close to $40,000 per year.
With 2026 ACA plans officially live, we can now see the impact of Congress' failure to extend enhanced premium tax credits. A 64 YO couple in Morgantown with household income of $85k will see their premiums for the same plan increase by over $4,000 *per month*
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tbh I donāt think we tell kids how small the window is to be exceptional at many physical or intense intellectual pursuits. You basically have from 15-35 to become meaningfully world class at many things, which usually means starting in early teens
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Fun opportunity (for me, anyway) to remind folks that Duns Scotus anticipated the early moderns by claiming that we cannot directly perceive substances. We can infer their existence, but all we have direct perceptual access to are accidental forms. https://t.co/YnHbpyFQKZ
Itās a very easy case to make. 1. If you canāt see something, it doesnāt exist. 2. You canāt see immaterial things. 3. Therefore, immaterial things donāt exist. Nobody has ever refuted Premise 1 by showing me something that I canāt see but which nevertheless exists.
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The arts of baking and cooking, like ancient Hebrew, were never meant to be learned from a book but to be passed on orally, and with direct guidance, from one generation to the next.
A "clove" is not a unit of garlic. Normal cloves vary in size by a factor of like 5. It's as bad as "pinch." You should be telling me in grams, fractions of a head, or LD50 for vampires.
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