alkjash writes about how following the rule 'walk through the fire' pretty much always makes one weaker if followed, so you should not follow it. Isusr writes about how following the rule 'walk through the fire' can pretty consistently make one stronger if followed, so [given some preconditions, writes Isusr]...
Hi, my name is Mack Gallagher, I'm 20 years old, I have ZERO familiarity with computer architecture or [math or computer science technical jargon] [although I'm OK at reasoning], I have never attended a prestigious university, and I currently live in a 15,000-person meatpacking town, where I pack meat. I...
alkjash writes about how following the rule 'walk through the fire' pretty much always makes one weaker if followed, so you should not follow it.
Isusr writes about how following the rule 'walk through the fire' can pretty consistently make one stronger if followed, so [given some preconditions, writes Isusr] you maybe should follow it.
This reads on the face of it like a deontic dilemma. Not all deontic-dilemmas-as-parsed-by-humans, just like not all questions-about-matters-of-fact-as-parsed-by-humans, can be dissolved. But I think this one can.
Don't walk-through-the-fire as a rule.
Walk through the fire in the sense that if you see a Fire that it looks like 'OH imma need to walk through that fire', WALK THROUGH IT.
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Thank you for this comment; I was happy death spiralling around the original post to the point of starting to wonder if I should quit my job and this abruptly snapped me out of it.
Hi, my name is Mack Gallagher, I'm 20 years old, I have ZERO familiarity with computer architecture or [math or computer science technical jargon] [although I'm OK at reasoning], I have never attended a prestigious university, and I currently live in a 15,000-person meatpacking town, where I pack meat. I am terrified of impending foom as the most likely cause of my early death, I think my brain needs regular active reinforcement from [the presence of] people who share my beliefs-and-affect-toward-them to fuel sustained positive action on my part, and I am tired of sitting around waiting to die.
Are you, like me,
I had never heard of him before! I was referring to a cloud of implicit norms I feel like I’ve seen around something I would call “traditional philosophy”, but part of what makes ”traditional philosophy” stand out a distinct thing in my mind is that those norms exist in it. I should probably be clearer.
Very cool story! I laughed a lot, and ‘hm’ed a lot. As a longtime Internet ratsphere person, but not a traditional philosophy nerd, the idea of modelling the emergence of semantic meaning like you would model genetics or something literally never occurred to me. I can’t understand the notion that if a concept has ever been written about in philosophy, you are not allowed any credit for your independent derivation of it anywhere unless you cite the literature. Except, of course, as part of one of those negative-sum inb4ing contests that seems to be eating the world. [Yes, it’s kind of adjacent to IP law, but while I haven’t worked out my... (read more)