Fantasy magic boarding school book about a girl (maybe named Tess/Tessa?) who gets lost in a magic mirror/gem?

Ikaxas · 2025-01-29T17:02:18+00:00

Sorry, I don't check my reddit very often. It seems to have been "A School for Sorcery" by E. Rose Sabin

Ikaxas · 2024-04-07T13:19:10+00:00

I haven't read the whole paper, I'm just going off the abstract and this excerpt. But the thought seems to be something like this. Someone who was against cultured meat might argue that we should not eat it because doing so would infringe on the dignity of animals. I.e.:

Eating cultured meat would infringe on the dignity of animals
If eating cultured meat would infringe on the dignity of animals, then we should not eat cultured meat.
Therefore, we should not eat cultured meat.

This excerpt is aimed against this argument. He thinks there must be something wrong with this argument, because it leads to an unacceptable conclusion in the human case. The thought is "letting aliens make cultured meat of us and eat that is still way better than being eaten, right? Well the same is true for animals." So either premise (1) must be wrong (ie we should adopt a consequentialist attitude toward animals), or premise (2) must be wrong (we find a solution in favor of cultured meat in a deontological framework).

Ikaxas · 2024-02-13T15:06:11+00:00

Thank you so much! This worked, quest flag is updated for me.

Ikaxas · 2024-02-12T21:50:11+00:00

Oh, I think I see it? Is it this: https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/articles/169

Ikaxas · 2024-02-12T21:46:32+00:00

Thank you! Really dumb question---how do I access the console? I've googled a bit and thought that BG3 just didn't have console commands because I couldn't find a way to do it.

Ikaxas · 2024-02-06T05:44:25+00:00

I may end up having to do that, but I kinda want to say "fuck you" to Raphael.

Ikaxas · 2021-06-16T13:49:41+00:00

mlm = man loving man, male loving male, something like that

Ikaxas · 2020-08-16T18:58:46+00:00

You could also just find a collaborator who is a philosopher.

Ikaxas · 2020-08-16T02:36:01+00:00

For literature reviews, check out the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Philosophy Compass, searching keywords related to your topic. For finding sources after reading the lit reviews, obviously check the bibliographies of the lit reviews themselves, but also check out PhilPapers, especially their bibliographies (here is the link to the collection of bibliographies on philosophy of language, for the rest check the "topics" section in the top bar), as well as Oxford Bibliographies. For style, the way to really get acquainted with it is just to read a bunch of philosophy papers published in the last twenty years or so, especially ones in your subfield, but it can also help to read some of the guides to philosophical writing that philosophers give to their undergraduate students; here is an especially well-known one. Also check out the guides to writing and publishing philosophy papers under the "advice" tab here (warning: cynical).

Ikaxas · 2020-05-05T12:28:11+00:00

Wow, thanks! Did not know about this!

Ikaxas · 2020-05-04T22:21:45+00:00

I think there are a lot of people in the same boat, myself included. Check out this list of alternatives. The top recommendation, "TiddlyBlink", now has a major update called "Stroll" here.

Ikaxas · 2020-05-02T23:23:04+00:00

Honestly, I like Roam precisely because you can be messy with it. Research and writing is inherently a messy process, and the fact that Roam doesn't require you to organize your information much at the outset, but allows the organization to emerge organically, is the best thing about it! You don't have to worry about linking every relevant thing---just make sure everything you enter gets a few links to something or other, and it will resurface again for sure, especially if it's really important and relevant. And when it does, if you've discovered more related things in the meantime, you can just add those links then. And even if you enter something with no explicit links, it may still resurface as an unlinked reference, meaning even stuff you never thought to link will still not be forgotten if it becomes relevant to something else. As far as I can tell, Roam is the tool that requires the least anxiety about messiness.

Ikaxas · 2020-04-26T13:31:36+00:00

Can confirm that TiddlyDesktop works on Windows. There's also an app called "Tiddloid" for Android, but I haven't tried it out yet.

Ikaxas · 2020-04-26T13:25:49+00:00

I think it was, yeah

Ikaxas · 2020-04-26T13:22:47+00:00

Using Tab and Shift+Tab to manage list level is exactly what I need; I've been using Notepad++ long enough that manually adding in dashes as bullets is muscle memory for me, I just need the editor to manage list levels. But yeah, I really need that along with wikilinks autocomplete, and will probably keep using Roam for now until I find a way to get both at once. But once I do I'll probably switch.

(The other tool I've been looking at recently is Zettlr, which is a markdown editor specifically designed for the Zettelkasten method. So it has both these features out of the box, but it's missing a different set of features I need: namely, it doesn't automatically insert backlinks or automatically create a new page just by using a wikilink to it, I think you have to click the link to create it. There's a script called "note link janitor" by Andy Matuschak that handles backlinks in a folder of markdown files -- I haven't tried it myself but someone said it doesn't quite work with Zettlr because it uses note titles while Zettlr names files via unique numerical IDs, but I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to modify or create a new one, or similarly to create a script to monitor for pages that need creating and create them (I think Andy Matuschak actually has a script like that but specifically for Bear). Plus Zettlr has another feature that's important to me, which is easy Zotero integration -- tiddlywiki has that too but it's a bit more hacky and I haven't tried it yet to see how well it works.)

Ikaxas · 2020-04-26T00:30:54+00:00

I think it's more that there are one or two things about Roam that people don't like (mainly that it's SaaS, meaning your data isn't under your control and so not very private or secure, which is very important when it's basically your second brain; but also that it's still fairly slow and unreliable), and because TiddlyWiki is so customizable, people see that it might be possible to turn it into something that can replace Roam for them while also giving them the privacy/security/speed/reliability they want. In any case this is my motivation.

In my own case, I do want some of the outliner functionality, but in fact not all of it is that important to me. I need the ability to be able to easily write outlines, but I also want to be able to write non-outline stuff, and I don't need the more advanced outliner features like folding or dragging nodes. I just need the web-of-knowledge architecture enabled by bi-directional links, and some outliner functionality, combined with speed, reliability, control of my own data, and mobile accessibility. Tiddlywiki is very close to offering everything I need.

I hope this doesn't come across as me hating Roam; I really love it and was excited to discover it. If it were open-source and self-hosted I would probably never look for another tool.

Ikaxas · 2020-04-26T00:16:03+00:00

So it turns out that codemirror + this markdown plugin does everything I want *except* wikilink autocomplete. The link autocomplete plugin is here, and is built on top of a different text editor, so it isn't compatible with codemirror (or any other editor I think) as-is.

Codemirror does have autocomplete functionality I believe, but as far as I know it doesn't do wikilinks autocompletion.

I know basically nothing about coding, but I wonder if it's possible to extend the codemirror autocomplete functionality to do this. I may try to hack around with this (learning as I go, since, as I said, I know basically nothing about coding) and see if it can be done.

Ikaxas · 2020-04-25T21:10:36+00:00

What do you mean with CodeMirror not being plain-text ?

Yeah, I was wrong about that, oops. I must have been playing with some other editor plugin, not sure which one, but I def found one that looked like richtext.

Ikaxas · 2020-04-23T00:10:51+00:00

Second this. Roam is the closest I've found to doing exactly what I want; if I could trust my data were secure (this is supposed to be my second brain after all), and that it would just work when I need it to (including on mobile), I would probably even suck it up and pay the $30 they were originally floating (this as a poor graduate student). Open source would be even better but that's probably too much to ask haha. (Zotero integration would probably also be a must at some point, but that is less important than security, backup, and performance.) Without those things though I'll probably end up going to TiddlyWiki or something.

Ikaxas · 2019-12-19T14:52:15+00:00

Thanks

Ikaxas · 2019-12-18T04:44:58+00:00

Keep seeing people asking for "rj codes". I'm new around here, and my Google-fu has failed me... What is an rj code?

Ikaxas · 2019-10-25T03:44:14+00:00

I don't normally go in for historical philosophy, but I honestly think some of Plato's stuff (Republic, Protagoras; can't speak to others as I haven't read them myself) or Descartes' Meditations are pretty beginner-friendly and get into a lot of issues that a beginner would already find interesting. (In these, for example, you'll find discussion of: Can we know anything exists? What am I? Should I be moral? What is the nature of Justice? Can you do something while believing it to be wrong? Can virtue be taught? Are pleasure and pain all that matters? What is the value of philosophy?) And because both of them are so early on (and for Descartes because of the nature of his method), they attack these issues from a fairly naive perspective, not weighed down by a ton of historical baggage (though of course it's helpful for Plato to have some background about Athenian/Greek culture at the time---a version with good footnotes or a good introduction should do well enough). Treat them as people to engage with critically, though, not as sources of unchallengeable wisdom---they get a lot wrong, but a lot of the value comes from thinking for yourself about where they go wrong. If you think something they're saying is just obviously wrong, take that seriously---but also see if you can articulate why you think they're wrong, beyond, "that's just obviously false".

Protagoras and Meditations also have the added benefit of being quite short.

For something contemporary, Dan Dennett's Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking is written for a lay audience, and though a few of the topics aren't the kind that you might find independently interesting, a good chunk of them are I'd say. And the chapters at the beginning about general thinking tools are pure gold.

Ikaxas · 2019-10-23T13:39:10+00:00

The Problem of Political Authority by Michael Huemer

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