Comments on: Sub-Cognitive Fragments (#2)

By: admin

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:23:40 +0000

We can be fully confident that 2 + 2 = 4, despite our stupidity.

By: Anna R

Anna R — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:29:53 +0000

“Are we stupid? Oh yes, of that we can be fully confident.”

If we are stupid (and I agree that we are…which is probably a good thing, but that’s for another discussion), our confidence — full or otherwise — carries no weight.

By: spandrell

spandrell — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 08:52:04 +0000

You can’t have 3 kinds of maximalist radicals cooperating. Won’t work, and there’s no good feedback mechanism. Factionalism isn’t that different from any sort of tribalism.

The point is everyone must accept that there’s some truth in the 3 positions. Corollary is there’s much falsehood in the 3 too.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 08:06:36 +0000

Thanks (for the double dose of Satanism).

By: admin

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 03:19:39 +0000

My last attempt to weave the three strands together didn't go down that well.

By: spandrell

spandrell — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 03:14:38 +0000

Yes, no society can ignore religion, tribalism and microeconomics. So to some extent a functional society has to integrate the three. The corollary is that we’re all wrong separately, but right together.

By: Artemisia

Artemisia — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:47:53 +0000

The objections have obviously “obvious” merit, but intelligence will develop through us or around us (maybe we won’t even recognize it as intelligence at some point..) and it’s really ultimately better for us as a species if it develops through us, we’d survive longer. Maybe I am looking at things in too long a run, but it’s either this or being way too near-sighted (caring about what hazardous intelligence overextension does to this particular human thing or this particular group of human things is…well, kind of petty).

(That said, get better, Sick Old Nick!)

By: VXXC

VXXC — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:15:26 +0000

Will-To-Think was then the gift of Moldbug and the genesis of Neo-Reaction.

By: RiverC

RiverC — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:05:28 +0000

@survivingbabel

The degree to which assertion of Traditional Christianity as ‘the truth’ leads to certain troublesome outcomes depends as much on the philosophy of ‘truth’ as it does on the zeal itself.

At least in Eastern Orthodoxy, The Truth refers not to a series of concepts but to a person, so when we say that we seek the Truth, we are referring not to crystallizing a system of precepts and axioms but the pursuit of godhood.

I personally do not know how Orthodoxy itself actually fits in here; but you will always have theonomists within it (some folks I know personally are dedicated to Knowing All Of The Facts) – however, theonomy at least as it is expressed in traditional Western Christianity is foreign to our faith.

By: survivingbabel

survivingbabel — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:18:20 +0000

(Apologies, missed the closing tag after “we’ll kill each other.” My Kingdom for a Preview Option!)