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Saying that AI is just mathematics is like saying that cooking is just mathematics because you use numbers to measure the ingredients.

The Anglo enlightenment was founded on rationalist philosophy, while continental philosophy at the same time was romantic.

Financial support continued up until 1991, where a bill was passed by congress to prevent the organization from the funded through the UN.

We have gone through multiple cycles of romantic and rational philosophy since the enlightenment. Also, you have to completely differentiate the french vs anglo-american branches of philosophy at that time. They are polar opposites, the Anglo-american enlightenment was rationalist, while the...

Love Canal argues to the opposite. The Hooker Chemical Corporation did everything in their power to handle toxic waste responsibly, and when the state was going to just steal the land, the Hooker Chemical Corporation cut a deal where they would sell the land on the conditions of a contract that...

Regulations do the exact opposite of what you think they do. All of the bribe money being used to create regulations come from megacorperations that want to destroy small businesses. Most regulations create a burden that is impossible for a single person to satisfy the paperwork alone and also...

Sweet summer child, large organizations favor limiting rules and regulations because they are corrupt, not to prevent corruption. Regulations create a barrier to entry, they are a tool corruption uses to legitimize gate-keeping. The capitalist method to deal with bad actors is liability...

Corruption only ever works by pushing the affairs away from laissez faire capitalism. As long as you prevent the corporations from using coercion directly or using the state as a tool for coercion, it works great, and you can always recognize corruption by it being anti-capitalist.

If the non fossil fuels could be used as a replacement, they would be, because there would be more profit in a less scarce resource. Just like shale oil in the past, biofuel will be adopted as soon as it is cheap enough and oil is expensive enough to be viable. All of the megacorps you think...

We've been warned about everything that is happening since I was a child.

There are enough people saying "I told you so" about things already that I know you would only get the same result: The right to spin your chair while screaming "Fuck you I was right" as you watch the world burn.

This could end up badly if China feels it can get away with a war of conquest.

Given the past year, the word I would use is "Unchecked". At least for the governors. So far the executive branches of the states have been ignoring the courts and the legislatures with no consequences. It is hard to tell with the federal executive, because so far the bureaucracy has acted as a...

I think Lincoln will be remembered in a similar, but inverse, light to Tarquin the Proud. Just as Tarquin saw and triggered the tranformation from the Roman Kingdom to the Roman Republic, Lincoln lead the tranformation from the American States to the Federal period.

I've stated over the last few years that racial division is a beast that has slipped the leash. You can see the division between the old guard that just use it as a tool and the young true believers. The true believers are stupid but zealous making them equally effective as they are self...

The Chinese Empires certainly have had a cycle of plundering the cities to support the fields and plundering the fields to support the cities. I've always had a feeling about that being reflected in this conflict but I don't have enough context to really complete the comparison. An interesting...

Also note anyone who has tried has likely failed, especially if they think they succeeded. There exists a scarcity of competency. Also, because the main point of conflict seems to be the divide between communist infiltrators and various indigenous populations, I see any possible world war three...

Actually, it is the respect itself that is the problem. Science needs doubt to work, but people are inclined to trust the results because science does work. Religion can help by giving people something else to trust more.

No, the opposite and inverse even. Just look at all the arguments that start because my science but are really arguments from authority. Science relies on skepticism to work and the way people put faith in science actually hinders it. Actually science is an arduous and epistemologically...

With a tyrany, things we normally think are important for a functioning civilization, such as food, are far less important than the ability to just kill anyone who rebels and make an example of their families.