• Amoeba_Girl
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    The false dichotomy between “material/biology/physics-based” and “metaphysical i.e. fake” is everywhere in everything lesswrong outputs yet it never fails to annoy me. Sometimes I wish I could take these people aside and bully some sense into them, but due to their nazi leanings maybe being selfdestructively wrong and stupid is a fitting punishment.

    • David GerardOPMA
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      2 years ago

      you would almost think these people were doing philosophy while deliberately learning fuck all about it

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        They skim read some utilitarianism, which is a limited school of thought (if it has any value at all), and jumped straight to “fuck yes! This is everything!”

        • David GerardOPMA
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          “at last! I can do some really telling thought experiments!”

      • Amoeba_Girl
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        ties big yud and scott up in her basement, forces them to go through the critique of pure reason giving them a werther’s every time they manage to genuinely engage with the ideas