Multi-Path Thinking. Against the stranger.
Embrace the Paradox
Be of two minds
You can't know where a path leads until you walk it.
What are collective action problems?
Who's a what now?
Two criminals are caught by the police and interrogated in separate rooms. Each woman
Eternity & Recurrence
Assuming time goes on forever, what shape does the world come to take?
Do all possible things come to be?
The impossibility of immortality
What is life?
A person is a process. As long as the process runs, as long as it receives data
Shallow vs Deep Persuasion
Part of the persuasion sequence
***Bullshit alert: This may well be bullshit. Expect unempirical distinctions, ungrounded assumptions and fuzziness all
Agreeing with the Greeks: character as the basis of a good life
the more i write, the more i find my writing resembling the Greeks, whom have always despised.
The Greeks wrote
Freedom and Morality and Sacrifice
Few martyrs have families. To sacrifice your own live is brave. To sacrifice that of your children send maniacal.
To
In defense of tribes 2: evolution of systems
separate cultures or units of an organism are likely to be more diverse than a single unit.
diversity leads to
In defense of tribes: Group formation as a necessary response to cultural/moral differences
Some moral rules are mutually exclusive. nudists and nakidity-haters cannot coexist.
Some differences are not contradictory buy are hard to
Distance based empathy as mechanism enabling pluralism.
Human empathy drops off over space.
Singer and many people think this is bad. If we cared about injustices which