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06
Apr

Ignoring the crimes of the powerful/revered

I read an article on Kemal Ataturk. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/31/the-ataturk-path-to-islamic-modernity/ . It goes over his achievements.
19
Mar

Violence towards children in history

Childhood for most people was brutal. The notion of children as innocent and sacred and especially valuable is recent. From
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23
Feb

Legal Disfunction: Immigration Edition

I watched a show following police enforcing immigration laws in the UK. They would find someone who was an illegal
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03
Feb

Against expropriating the founder of wework

The founder of wework is held to be immoral and to have exploited and mismanaged his company, costing thousands of
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05
Jan

2019: Year 2 in Review

Posts Total Posts this year: 39 (+1 vs 2018) Decent posts this the year: * Roughly Book Reviews * Against Bryan Caplan
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25
Dec

Minimizing slack is not a good long term strategy

TheViz has a post on slack, the concept not the app. Slack as applied to organizations and teams is interesting.
15
Dec

Optimizing for learning vs education

There are two competing objectives to education. One is to grow as a person. The other is to gain things
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02
Dec

Empirical facts can falsify moral beliefs.

I've usually assumed that moral beliefs cannot be disproved by empirical facts. That's not really true.
18
Nov

Two sides of rationality.

One approach to rationality is to seek nirvana. To be free from all desires, for one side or the other.
10
Nov

Solutions to the problem of suffering.

Assume god exists. If a just god exists, how is it that evil exists in the world. A better question.
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