Ironically, the physicist and philosopher of science Sabine Hossenfelder now says that mathematical physics is too impressed with the beauty of mathematical ideas, particularly string theory. IN fact her book on it is titled Lost in Math - How Beauty Leads Physics Astray.
Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. — Wayfarer
Everything material must ultimately be mental, since we live inside our minds, and the world we interact with must therefore also be "in here" with us. — Echarmion
But the so-called material world that we actually inhabit is shot-through with meaning, information, none of which is itself material. — Pantagruel
When I say it's not good enough, you say that just shows how lousy my character is. — Judaka
How he meant them? What a horrible joke, you mean the hysterical performance of how you interpreted quotes with no context and a clear misunderstanding of what he meant by enforced monogamy? — Judaka
Your ideology prevents you from seeing this. — Banno
Capitalism is a disruption of the market. — Pfhorrest
I believe this would be like saying that Democrats are still the party of slavery. Most conservatives I've spoken with are for maximum opportunity for all. As a matter of fact, I am not sure I've ever met anybody who would against this. — synthesis
I get that you believe the system needs to be "optimized." Unfortunately, the system is optimized (for the few). This is pretty much the only way systems work. — synthesis
Whereas there will come a day where people will probably not care if a person is white, black, brown, purple or green — synthesis
Should we make women have 50% male friends and 50% female friends. — synthesis
Conservatism is about preserving — synthesis
Saying that they are on the wrong side of history is denying the success that the U.S. has had over the past 244 years. — synthesis
Identity politics and intolerance will only lead to further division making the process of debate and compromise difficult, at best. — synthesis
It will be interesting to watch the progressives in America as they seem Hell-bent on canceling conservative thinking all-together. If their strategy is successful and they are allowed to implement widespread change, the results will be just as poor as if the conservatives tried to roll back to the clock thereby retarding society from moving forward. — synthesis
Basically, Do you believe some people require a larger effort in self reflection, meditation and self-directed positive cognitive training to maintain the same good traits/values as someone who just does it in the first place without thinking? — Benj96
I don't know the context, who are "these" suburban housewives, I imagine he's talking about a small number of people, perhaps even as small as 3-4, who he actually listened to. — Judaka
This quote seems to be from here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life.html
The same article which states your same misinterpretation of what enforced monogamy is, right? — Judaka
You said you could justify your comments about JP being sexist and what do you give me? Misinterpretations, a quote about the reliability of a rape accusation and an out of context quote that means shit all. — Judaka
I'm not checking the reasonableness of characterisations you made but after you decided Carlos is pro-fascist for not critiquing the groups as you'd like, you'll understand if my expectations here are low. — Judaka
A link or source would be nice, I can't find it. I don't want to comment on this with so little information. — Judaka
He emphatically states the value of having women in the workforce, unimpeded, being able to do whatever they want to do. You are an incredibly untrustworthy narrator, if he's so bad, give me statements which show what you claimed about him to be true. — Judaka
it’s so whiny, it’s just enough to drive a modern person mad to listen to these suburban housewives from the late ’50s ensconced in their comfortable secure lives complaining about the fact that they’re bored because they don’t have enough opportunity. It’s like, Jesus get a hobby. For Christ’s sake — Kenosha Kid
Peterson is not arguing that women should be forced to be housewives. — Judaka
You are just exhibiting more of the same behaviour I've been criticising. — Judaka
Nobody forced me to apologise. — Judaka
I'm not unfamiliar with sensual pleasures, they eventually wear thin. — Pantagruel
Anarchism isn't impractical after that, it's just more difficult to keep since there are other possibilities it has to fight against now. — Pfhorrest
When the mean lifetime was 40 ys and childs dying in infancy was a common thing. — Ansiktsburk
Think you can defend your comments about JP? — Judaka
Obviously, you do but I've listened to the guy enough for what you're saying to be serious red flags, we do not have the same standards for what is sexist and transphobic. — Judaka
it’s so whiny, it’s just enough to drive a modern person mad to listen to these suburban housewives from the late ’50s ensconced in their comfortable secure lives complaining about the fact that they’re bored because they don’t have enough opportunity. It’s like, Jesus get a hobby. For Christ’s sake
intersectional feminist adjacent...? — Judaka
Yet I can also gauge a person's ideologies by how they speak on related topics, even without providing me with concrete proof, with some accuracy. — Judaka
Call me lazy or inaccurate, if you want — Judaka
You write people off with your labels and maybe you're just projecting? — Judaka
You said you don't like JP, I said JP is criticising something like ideologies based around intersectional feminism, which I see you as a part of. — Judaka
what logic is at play there? — Judaka
What's the honest way? — Judaka
Things have to work, and there is no such wonderland as that of Nozick or leftist/rightist Anarchist. But of course, if one can make it work, why not? Just haven't seen it. — Ansiktsburk
Or did I not make one? Whichever it is. — Judaka
We're long past the days where feminism referred solely to fighting for women's rights. — Judaka
I'm not playing a correlation game. — Judaka
Studies support women changing preferences in how men look. The link between jaw width and aggression is totally spurious. That's driven by the fact we're no longer hunter-gatherers chewing hard, uncooked foods. — Benkei
Meanwhile, on the other side, Peterson is a nazi, white supremacist, racist, sexist, evil, bitter professor. — deusidex
But I think no less than cultural trappings we should address explicit institutional trappings (perhaps this still falls within your definition of culture) — Giorgi
I think the U.S. in particular has an ingenious political field which can create a powerful illusion of change and radical reform, while remaining perfectly within the confines of the status quo. — Giorgi
If one is possibly right, they are possibly wrong at the same time. To be right, one must make all possible wrongs and learn from them. — Harry Hindu
Ani characterised the asili of European culture as dominated by the concepts of separation and control, with separation establishing dichotomies like "man" and "nature", "the European" and "the other", "thought" and "emotion" – separations that in effect end up negating the existence of "the other", who or which becomes subservient to the needs of (European) man.[8] Control is disguised in universalism as in reality "the use of abstract 'universal' formulations in the European experience has been to control people, to impress them, and to intimidate them." — GoldMane
Did you just parrot back the very same thing I just said to you? — Judaka
Call me a fascist, alt-right, racist, I don't care. — Judaka
My argument for why you're most likely an intersectional feminist or at a bare minimum, closely ideologically aligned is not unreasonable. — Judaka
All intersectional feminism says is that people experience different levels of privilege and discrimination based on their various political and social identities. — Judaka
My problem with it is that we don't want to focus on seeing a person through these most visible identities, using our assumptions about their levels of privilege or discrimination to prejudice against them. — Judaka
This is the evidence that links you to intersectional feminism — Judaka
I've seen you debate people you disagree with politically on this forum, it's not a pleasant sight. — Judaka
Still I don't think there isn't more discuss at the OP's question. — ssu
Even it's name tells should what it is. — ssu
The UN can have armed forces and basically could go to war against a country (like it did against North Korea), but nobody thinks it's a country. — ssu
But, of course, Antifa activists are the current right-wing version of the Nazi's "Jews": a placeholder for every scary thing they don't like and/or want to scapegoat. — Baden
There should be some islands in the pacific where those people could go living, anarcisming each other. — Ansiktsburk
It seems entirely plausible that there could be two communities which face essentially the same problem like bad roads or littering or something like that. — BitconnectCarlos
You'd help out your own community first, and then it's fine to go off the help the other, right? And this is the right thing to do, right? — BitconnectCarlos
You wish to label me alt-right even though I say I despise the alt-right because you think it sounds right. — Judaka
Remember when Jordan Peterson participated in a debate on Marxism and announced the only book by Marx he had ever read was the Communist Manifesto and that he had only previously read it once before, when he was in college. — Maw
If all those problems in your community are solved, it makes sense to go to the other community to help them solve it. — BitconnectCarlos