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"what is a use where objective facts matter where it adds utility?"
I answered your question in good faith, but you're not responding in kind, so I'm stopping here. I hope you have a good day.
I answered your question in good faith, but you're not responding in kind, so I'm stopping here. I hope you have a good day.
January 27, 2026 at 6:07 PM
"what is a use where objective facts matter where it adds utility?"
I answered your question in good faith, but you're not responding in kind, so I'm stopping here. I hope you have a good day.
I answered your question in good faith, but you're not responding in kind, so I'm stopping here. I hope you have a good day.
It's not "analysis," dude. It's calling a download API and saving some CSVs. The "parsing" is some simple Python pandas commands that I could write manually. My partner does the analysis. The code itself is not a black box. I understand it. There are good objections to AI, but yours aren't good!
January 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
It's not "analysis," dude. It's calling a download API and saving some CSVs. The "parsing" is some simple Python pandas commands that I could write manually. My partner does the analysis. The code itself is not a black box. I understand it. There are good objections to AI, but yours aren't good!
I'm just a fairy but over the weekend I used Claude Code to help my partner, a trade economist, bulk download and parse Comtrade data. Works great, would've taken me forever. Respectfully, if you really want the answer to the questions you're asking, I think it's wise to listen to experts
January 27, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I'm just a fairy but over the weekend I used Claude Code to help my partner, a trade economist, bulk download and parse Comtrade data. Works great, would've taken me forever. Respectfully, if you really want the answer to the questions you're asking, I think it's wise to listen to experts
I think you're likely right. I have vague thoughts like: totalitarianism is a reaction to the Enlightenment, counter-individualist, and so is a kind of subordination of reason to passion, but passion is deeply feminine-coded, so there MUST be a gendered hierarchy... We'll both be pondering, LOL.
January 27, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I think you're likely right. I have vague thoughts like: totalitarianism is a reaction to the Enlightenment, counter-individualist, and so is a kind of subordination of reason to passion, but passion is deeply feminine-coded, so there MUST be a gendered hierarchy... We'll both be pondering, LOL.
I've been thinking about that too recently: like, hypothetically, a hierarchical/right-wing totalitarian worldview shouldn't require patriarchy per se, but actually it does. In practice, to control social reproduction, but even in theory... Why sexism specifically, do you think? Themes of vitalism?
January 27, 2026 at 3:55 PM
I've been thinking about that too recently: like, hypothetically, a hierarchical/right-wing totalitarian worldview shouldn't require patriarchy per se, but actually it does. In practice, to control social reproduction, but even in theory... Why sexism specifically, do you think? Themes of vitalism?
I'd be interested to read a comparison of Fukuyama's reading of Hegel to Beauvoir's in the Second Sex, where the master-slave dialectic is framed as the bedrock of patriarchy, and which fits very well with our Everything is Gender times
January 13, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I'd be interested to read a comparison of Fukuyama's reading of Hegel to Beauvoir's in the Second Sex, where the master-slave dialectic is framed as the bedrock of patriarchy, and which fits very well with our Everything is Gender times
This is certainly not the case in analytic philosophy, which has historically conceived of itself as the handmaiden of the natural sciences, and has thereby become one of the most influential and prestigious of the humanities... For better or worse. Respectfully, your prejudice is strange!
December 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This is certainly not the case in analytic philosophy, which has historically conceived of itself as the handmaiden of the natural sciences, and has thereby become one of the most influential and prestigious of the humanities... For better or worse. Respectfully, your prejudice is strange!
Given how little money there is in most of academia and how parasitic the humanities are forced to become on tech, I think it's only a matter of time, but philosophy travels slow, and without concrete understanding -- a rare and well-paid province -- abstraction may obscure more than it reveals.
December 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Given how little money there is in most of academia and how parasitic the humanities are forced to become on tech, I think it's only a matter of time, but philosophy travels slow, and without concrete understanding -- a rare and well-paid province -- abstraction may obscure more than it reveals.
The simplicity of mom bringing me Hot Pockets is being cephalized by the overcomplexity of her telling me to leave the basement and get a job
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The simplicity of mom bringing me Hot Pockets is being cephalized by the overcomplexity of her telling me to leave the basement and get a job
Respectfully, this is mistaken. Unless the freedom to choose your own purposes is treated as intrinsically valuable, as just mattering, there's no basis to critique the instrumentalization of reason or alienation. That's the foundation of lots of critical theory, as in the Dialectic of Enlightenment
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Respectfully, this is mistaken. Unless the freedom to choose your own purposes is treated as intrinsically valuable, as just mattering, there's no basis to critique the instrumentalization of reason or alienation. That's the foundation of lots of critical theory, as in the Dialectic of Enlightenment
Sorry. Intrinsic value is valued for its own sake. Instrumental value is valued for the sake of something else. E.g., for Aristotle, health is valuable insofar as it leads to happiness, and happiness/flourishing, which he defines basically as always trying to be more virtuous, is just valuable.
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Sorry. Intrinsic value is valued for its own sake. Instrumental value is valued for the sake of something else. E.g., for Aristotle, health is valuable insofar as it leads to happiness, and happiness/flourishing, which he defines basically as always trying to be more virtuous, is just valuable.
Without intrinsic value, ethics faces infinite regress: if X is always valuable for the sake of Y, forever, you run out of reasons to value what you value. It might help to think that you can take something to be intrinsically valuable without proving it so. "X just matters": life, love, learning.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Without intrinsic value, ethics faces infinite regress: if X is always valuable for the sake of Y, forever, you run out of reasons to value what you value. It might help to think that you can take something to be intrinsically valuable without proving it so. "X just matters": life, love, learning.
I yearn for a world without domination. I believe freedom lies in self-determination and reasonable agreement, with compulsion and force their opposite. But that world must be created and maintained. Sadly, those who would prefer a world of domination need sometimes be reminded what it tastes like
August 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I yearn for a world without domination. I believe freedom lies in self-determination and reasonable agreement, with compulsion and force their opposite. But that world must be created and maintained. Sadly, those who would prefer a world of domination need sometimes be reminded what it tastes like
Excuse me, but my full accusation was: he's a racialized gooner who uses filters on all of his videos and lives in rebellion to God. Thank you
August 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Excuse me, but my full accusation was: he's a racialized gooner who uses filters on all of his videos and lives in rebellion to God. Thank you
Who lives in rebellion to God, no less!
August 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Who lives in rebellion to God, no less!
Productive labor may be contractual, but reproductive labor is typically not. If you're framing all labor as necessarily productive labor, you're repeating an anti-feminist talking point that reproductive labor doesn't "count" as labor. Whatever "emotional labor" is, reproductive labor is labor.
July 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Productive labor may be contractual, but reproductive labor is typically not. If you're framing all labor as necessarily productive labor, you're repeating an anti-feminist talking point that reproductive labor doesn't "count" as labor. Whatever "emotional labor" is, reproductive labor is labor.
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I wonder if this is a question of scale: at an individual or small group level, hypocrites and free riders are obnoxious and, if they hide who they are, that compels vigilance that damages social trust. But among large groups, if a preponderance of people openly reject a norm, it no longer binds.
July 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I wonder if this is a question of scale: at an individual or small group level, hypocrites and free riders are obnoxious and, if they hide who they are, that compels vigilance that damages social trust. But among large groups, if a preponderance of people openly reject a norm, it no longer binds.
- Plato, Republic
July 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
- Plato, Republic
One great irony is that, in virtue ethics, moral education basically begins with virtue signalling: at first, we follow virtuous role models without understanding why, and only after acquiring good habits do we understand their goodness. Hypocrisy is more a problem for principle-based ethics.
July 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
One great irony is that, in virtue ethics, moral education basically begins with virtue signalling: at first, we follow virtuous role models without understanding why, and only after acquiring good habits do we understand their goodness. Hypocrisy is more a problem for principle-based ethics.
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June 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Hegel by way of Simone de Beauvoir, in particular! The introduction to the Second Sex and the section on "The Woman in Love" are still, I think, the best and most compelling presentation of patriarchy as recognition theory.
May 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Hegel by way of Simone de Beauvoir, in particular! The introduction to the Second Sex and the section on "The Woman in Love" are still, I think, the best and most compelling presentation of patriarchy as recognition theory.
If "value" here is perceived value, based on what the market expects and not what has been delivered, then hype is the essential currency, and "we are not sufficiently worshipped!" isn't just hubris or cultural rot, but would arise from a specific material concern with the need for infinite hype.
May 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If "value" here is perceived value, based on what the market expects and not what has been delivered, then hype is the essential currency, and "we are not sufficiently worshipped!" isn't just hubris or cultural rot, but would arise from a specific material concern with the need for infinite hype.
To what extent might this emerge from the tensions within their growth model? Even if from the outside they seem totally dominant, they need to constantly grow to sustain their value. Reshaping society to become an engine of their perpetual growth might then seem not only rational but the only way.
May 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
To what extent might this emerge from the tensions within their growth model? Even if from the outside they seem totally dominant, they need to constantly grow to sustain their value. Reshaping society to become an engine of their perpetual growth might then seem not only rational but the only way.
Basically: if I ran a publication, and a writer I hired was consistently wrong or facile but got clicks, I have a civic duty to let them go anyway, presumably to start their inevitable Substack prematurely. Maybe, in the long run, this would produce a populace who gave such persons fewer clicks!
May 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Basically: if I ran a publication, and a writer I hired was consistently wrong or facile but got clicks, I have a civic duty to let them go anyway, presumably to start their inevitable Substack prematurely. Maybe, in the long run, this would produce a populace who gave such persons fewer clicks!