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   by kempje 7mo ago

   The Open Society and Its Enemies is an important and interesting anti-authoritarian book. Unfortunately, from a purely Plato-scholarship/interpretation perspective, it's trash. Just read the Republic and see for yourself. Kallipol
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   by kempje 8mo ago

   This reads like it was written by an LLM.
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   by kempje 2y ago

   There is a widely circulated (amongst philosophers) argument against the Boltzmann brain hypothesis made on bayesian grounds. Technical, but very interesting. It's being published next year in what's generally regarded as the top
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   by kempje 2y ago

   Here's a different way of thinking about it. There are two things that are both very plausible: One - based on your direct personal experience - is that you are a non-boltzmann-brain-human living a normal life on earth. Two - based on