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by braft 6y ago
I'm sorry you're suffering and I hope you don't commit suicide. You are not a peasant. Peasants don't have $2m at any point. Maintaining a middle-class lifestyle today, which is an opportunity still available to you, mak
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by braft 6y ago
"By your definition the subjective experience says nothing about how a heart actually works." No, that's a reductionist assumption. When I say "subjective experience" I am explicitly not indicating its quantifiable
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by braft 6y ago
"you seem to be arguing you know more about pumping blood than the surgeons based on a feeling" No, I did not argue that at all. I said that there are multiple types of knowledge regarding hearts. Surgeons know one type in depth.
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by braft 6y ago
"a cardiac surgeon can still know far more about your heart than you do" You're conflating the knowledge surgeons have with the subjective experience of a pounding heart. Surgeons study the heart qua plumbing, not as object o
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by braft 6y ago
I sometimes want to leave the industry because I can't seem to find a job dealing with interesting problems. I enjoy Rust and C, working with OS and machine details, but there don't seem to be any such jobs that pay as well as bus
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by braft 7y ago
Yeah, the author conflates power with ambition which is easy to do while in a peaceful, prosperous society where making just enough to live on doesn't necessarily come with serious downsides. It would be better titled "Ambition is
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by braft 8y ago
Right. markdown was obviously not saying "children ought to be spanked because it's traditional and currently common," but rather, "you should not be 'amazed' that people feel that way because it is common.&quo
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by braft 9y ago
There are two claims here that should be considered separately. 1. Hackers are reluctant to acknowledge that their work has political ramifications. I believe this is true, and a problem. 2. Politics should be discussed more on HN. This is
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by braft 10y ago
This section stuck out to me also: > Why would you want to be like Socrates, and not like Newton? Especially since Newton had more to show for his thoughts than an account of what his thoughts were like. I suspect the difference is that
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by braft 10y ago
The author seems to take the goal of studying philosophy to be knowledge/technique collection, for an eventual goal of some type of measurable output. In other words, she expects philosophy to have something in common with the study of