Meteuphoric
Thursday, July 23, 2009
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Friday, July 3, 2009
Who do we care about?
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Humans exercise compassion regarding: family more than anyone people they know more than strangers geographically close people more than dis...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Morality is subjective preference, but it can be objectively wrong
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People are often unwilling to think of ethics as their own preferences, rather than demands from something more transcendent. For instance i...
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Be your conformist, approval seeking, self
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People recommend that one another 'be themselves' rather than being influenced by outside expectations and norms. Nobody suggests ot...
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
Explain explanations for choosing by choice
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A popular explanation of why it's worse to seem stupid than lazy is that lazy seems like more of a choice, so not permanent. Similarly ...
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Friday, April 24, 2009
A puzzle
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What do these things have in common? Nerves, emotions, morality, prices.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Obvious identity fail
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Paul Graham points out something important: religion and politics are generally unfruitful topics of discussion because people have identi...
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