Been reading this interesting essay. A lot of the analysis strikes true, especially their point of a 'war machine' being necessarily 'outside' the state, and a constant threat to it, and of the great nomad conquering kingdoms of the past being free-standing war machines which functioned in very diff
Which partakes more of virtue burger or fries?
Pulling inward phenomena results in pushing outward phenomena. There are some old sayings that go along with that idea. Ex:pull your self togethercollect your thoughtsopposites attract ----> inward toward each other <------can you integrate these many ideas into coherent whole?ask for help is
The most significant two-word philosophy ever uttered. No, it was not first uttered by Decartes.
We consider that, as humans, we have advantage over all the creatures of Earth, and that it is we who must pull them along ion the long ordeal of Earth life to achieve mastery at some point in our distant future.I think the Native Americans had the right idea about having"spirit guides" to help huma
We seek absolute truth, via our experiences of relative truths, that, sometimes contain misconceptions, false narratives { intentional or otherwise }, mis-perceptions, etc.I feel good, altho, I didnt know that I would.
Why Men Are More Naturally Drawn to Arch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA6urjNvTUc It takes a three-some to have arch ^ . ^, or ex /\ is three points i.e. ta wo-some alone via geometry, cannot create geometric arch / or as \ ....( )( ).... is cross-section of torus and has positive and negative
Mental causation is a topic I've been interesting in for a few years now. There are different ways of accounting for it, depending on your perspective on the mind/body problem. It strikes me as being an especially difficult problem for people who take the emergent property view. Emergentism seems to
I remember a case not all that long ago when the findings of a researcher (it might've been a report card for then-Senator Harris indicating she was one of the least productive members of Congress) were pounced upon by Republicans for one reason or another.In response, that researcher got upset, cla
I wasn't sure whether to post this under philosophy or technology, but this is where I ended up.The way large language models work is by predicting the next character or word in a string of characters or words, and this is based on being trained on a large amount of text. They do this without the ne
