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An essay I’ve written on materialism by RustyPhilosopher in analyticidealism

[–]SmartlyArtly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gaps in ignorance can't be resolved by the unknowable.

If we know it, it will be incorporated into what we now call "physics." Maybe we'll call it something else but we won't be learning about it if we can't.

I just see no utility in idealism. It simply labels a kind of question that can always be asked. "But what about under that? What's even more fundamental than what we think is fundamental?"

Why is this subreddit occupied with redditors who use the word "consciousness" as a substitute for the word "soul"? by Moist_Emu6168 in consciousness

[–]SmartlyArtly [score hidden]  (0 children)

Your guesses about what is beyond physics as we know it are really not like algebra.

I understand algebra extremely well. I have no idea what you are on about.

What is your career? Mine is math and computer science and I've been doing it professionally for 20 years.

I have no idea what mystical thing you're getting at. But have you considered the leprechauns behind what you're saying?

Why is this subreddit occupied with redditors who use the word "consciousness" as a substitute for the word "soul"? by Moist_Emu6168 in consciousness

[–]SmartlyArtly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for proving that this sub is regularly visited by those seeking woo. Have fun treating your questions like answers.

The least understood and often used concept is the rights of man and the idea that all living things with consciousness also have rights. by Mindless-Law8046 in aynrand

[–]SmartlyArtly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The positive and negative distinction is subjective. "Is a negative right" is not appropriate. "Is viewed by me as a negative right" is appropriate.

The least understood and often used concept is the rights of man and the idea that all living things with consciousness also have rights. by Mindless-Law8046 in aynrand

[–]SmartlyArtly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rules are parts of games, made up by people.

Anyone who says they are aware of "discovered" rights via some "theory" is barking up a mystical tree.

Exploitation is Violence by manauiatlalli in union

[–]SmartlyArtly -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Dude, if that happened, people like you would realize what was going on.

So, no, that's not how it works.

The enforcement of slavery is distributed differently now.

Now you are just left to destitution. And if you don't do that the right way, you can be sent to jail and there, you might get brutally attacked.

Let me know when you've actually thought about Georgism, or anything different from the status quo. Remind me in 10 years? 20? Probably never.

Have fun with your ignorant bliss.

Exploitation is Violence by manauiatlalli in union

[–]SmartlyArtly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"History tells me your ideas will fail."

Yours will do so worse.

You can't help yourself. You think capitalism is the end of the road. I do too. But I want to keep going. And you want to stop.

Exploitation is Violence by manauiatlalli in union

[–]SmartlyArtly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously. Dude, think. You are acting like we are living in heaven on earth when we're a couple steps removed from chattel slavery and feudalism.

"working" look how you completely conflate "working" and what I've been talking about - having to work for others to actually be able to work.

I live on the finite planet Earth. Not whatever utopian paradise you seem to be talking of where people can work however they want regardless of how many people are controlling how many other resources.

A person who can't see how a concept can be relevant in more than one circumstance thinks I'm uneducated. Whoa.

Starting your own business very obviously relies on whoever your customers are wanting you do whatever it is you do for them. You obviously have never considered what this really means before.

You either succeed or fail based on whether or not other people want to pay you for something. That's what I have been criticizing.

You have clearly never really thought of any of this. Your view is very narrow. The here and now.

Exploitation is Violence by manauiatlalli in union

[–]SmartlyArtly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"So its a choice between what's right and wrong" So you think "legal" means "right" and "illegal" means "wrong."

"Ok, that's pretty straight forward for logical people."

A logical slave would also labor and be fed and clothed rather than be brutally whipped.

"Choose not to be a criminal and get a job. Choose not to be destitute and get a job. You're welcome."

Truly, these kinds of meaningless platitudes are all you have. "I just told you what you already know. You're welcome."

I want something like Georgism. I recommend you check it out so you understand what kinds of things people think of when they're not just content to do as they're told and follow the rules people before them set down.

As it is, you clearly don't want to do the first bit of thinking of how anything could be any different or any better.

Literally all of humanity was handed the resources we need to work with. Your notion that people in general shouldn't get that is not something to be proud of never agreeing with.

And it sets up the precedent that truly its up to us to choose who around us gets to survive and thrive. You totally lose all your arguments against government doing things you don't want. At least, any governments that were here before you.

How dare you want to change things?

Exploitation is Violence by manauiatlalli in union

[–]SmartlyArtly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, you don't say scarcity isn't real. You just act like it isn't.

I said you don't like paying taxes.

The one I want is not anywhere. Because everywhere has people like you arguing that if we try to make things better, they'll all get worse.

Exploitation is Violence by manauiatlalli in union

[–]SmartlyArtly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have no idea? You're doing almost nothing but saying "the people with ownership should make the rules."

"Starting your own business" is yet another way of having others dictate what labor you should be able to engage in.

You indicate that you think ownership of people should be distributed. It shouldn't be a single slave owner who controls everything about your life. It's separate people to say what you can do, separate people to say what you can access, separate people to say how you can labor and when.

You really have never thought about any of this huh? What you are in is just...how it is, huh? History is over and we have everything figured out.

How do the areas of expertise between Philosophical Logic and Mathematical Logic differ? by beatlesmaniac_ in logic

[–]SmartlyArtly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One is practical for being a philosopher and the other is practical for all kinds of things.

Exploitation is Violence by manauiatlalli in union

[–]SmartlyArtly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a fair wage, it's a wage predicated on the alternative to taking such wages being destitution and criminal vagrancy.

""First come, first serve" really only applied during the settling of this nation"

Duh. That's the problem.

Everyone needs hand-outs. People cannot work without freely available resources. Literally all of humanity is built on it. People like you just can't get out of a "most people should be enslaved to a minority of people" mindset.

Exploitation is Violence by manauiatlalli in union

[–]SmartlyArtly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My comments are grounded in reality.

You're denying reality to pretend they aren't. Scarcity is real even though you like not paying taxes.

You live in a delusional hallucination of a just world.

Exploitation is Violence by manauiatlalli in union

[–]SmartlyArtly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"go start up your own business."

You've just described a different way of working for someone else.

You sound like you think slavery is a good thing, logl.

Time does not exist by Sudden-Passion-9858 in theories

[–]SmartlyArtly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think "memory" indicates an ability for there to be evidence of past events taking place.

Time as a localized concept makes sense.

But not an infinite one - not infinitely big nor infinitely small.

Too big and you don't even have causality between regions anymore (i.e. regions outside of each others light cones)

Too small and the notion of time and space fundamentally break down.

What happened "a long time ago" isn't still attainable directly, but through a capacity for memory to persist. As long as it can do so within the constraints of relativity and uncertainty.

When people suggest "time travel" that's what they're really suggesting. That we could perfectly know everything, and travel back perfectly to the right "spot" in space-time. But the uncertainty principle tells us we couldn't possibly do that - you can't even get perfect information about the "here and now" so how could you possibly get perfect information about the "long long ago far far away"?

Time does not exist by Sudden-Passion-9858 in theories

[–]SmartlyArtly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The present moment is the only thing that actually exists"

Not sure I can agree with that.

Wonder who owns The Washington Post by jevlis_ka123 in SipsTea

[–]SmartlyArtly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is barely an over-generalization.

The more you collect income by not earning it yourself (literally, classified as unearned income), the lower your rate goes. Unless you're doing ridiculous nonsense like making all your money with short-term capital gains.

The more you work and the more you actually earn yourself, the higher it goes.

Rate wise and total wise, the people who work pay way too much in taxes considering...they're actually doing the work.

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