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by thatalex
12 Nov 2024, 16:46
Forum: TV & Film
Topic: Britain's Best Sitcom
Replies: 1
Views: 462

Re: Britain's Best Sitcom

Why isn't Blackadder in your personal top ten?

The baby-eating bishop of Bath and Wells wants a word with you.
by thatalex
15 Sep 2024, 07:13
Forum: Random
Topic: The Singularity And Me
Replies: 2
Views: 481

Re: The Singularity And Me

Yeah to be fair journalistic standards have been falling steadily our whole lifetimes through! Add to that the scurge of the clickbaits and teases favoured by sub-editors. I remember reading a long and woolly article picking a minor fault in Darwin's (century-old) biology which was very incidental t...
by thatalex
15 Sep 2024, 06:50
Forum: Random
Topic: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!
Replies: 4
Views: 516

Re: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!

Also, Schopenhauer was NOT punk, but only because he was unmistakeably very Goth.
by thatalex
15 Sep 2024, 06:49
Forum: Random
Topic: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!
Replies: 4
Views: 516

Re: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!

Have I mentioned yet today that Sartre was a fraud? He was to Soviet Communism what Heidegger was to the Nazi party, but in spite of that some (French) nationalism leaked into his mindset from his study of Hegel the arch-nationalist. I recall him saying that he didn't believe in the guilt of those p...
by thatalex
15 Sep 2024, 06:38
Forum: Random
Topic: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!
Replies: 4
Views: 516

Re: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!

HT Mill was an ardent feminist and probably more egalitarian and in tune with her emotions than John Stuart. Hume's use of the comma does not belong in a sentence with the word style - 18th century English is often cumbersome, and he was a popular writer in his day.... All the same I wish this impre...
by thatalex
14 Sep 2024, 19:25
Forum: Random
Topic: The Singularity And Me
Replies: 2
Views: 481

The Singularity And Me

aicontentisbad.jpg It seems that every time I find something I'm good at, a computer can do it cheaper! Not better. But cheaper. And faster. This happened a few years back with outreach research, and now AI content is taking over the internet too. In fact a lot of groups already are one big circle-...
by thatalex
14 Sep 2024, 00:53
Forum: Random
Topic: Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!
Replies: 4
Views: 516

Philosophers listed by Punk credentials meme!

philosophersrankedbypunkcred.jpg What does everyone think of this? I would dock Marx, and having heard (at second-hand from his biography) that John Stuart Mill was picked up by the 5-0 for distributing birth control literature and taken to the magistrates for obscenity, I'd give him a little bump ...
by thatalex
12 Jul 2024, 22:41
Forum: Books & Writing
Topic: Review of two ASOIF books
Replies: 2
Views: 508

Re: Review of two ASOIF books

Hot take: The books are disgusting because history is disgusting when done right!
by thatalex
21 May 2024, 15:46
Forum: Health & Self-Care
Topic: Euthanasia: When and If
Replies: 7
Views: 1588

Re: Euthanasia: When and If

"One way in which the bar is sometimes set too high for patients who are trying to access assisted suicide is by broadening the scope of decision-making capacity evaluations too far beyond issues of capacity. One example of this is using an inappropriately high standard of ‘stability’ of attitu...
by thatalex
21 May 2024, 15:29
Forum: Books & Writing
Topic: Gothic Horror Tropes!
Replies: 21
Views: 8351

Re: Gothic Horror Tropes!

Sycorax: I just finished reading the linked Wikipedia article about Belle, and would be interested in reading (English translations of) her letters. Is there any good commentary website about them, and are the English translations freely available somewhere? I'm not fluent in French unfortunately, I...