If you follow the thesis “the way to be happy is to sacrifice your happiness for the happiness of other people” to its logical conclusion for everyone—nobody in the world is ever going to be happy. Imagine happiness as a small box. Since I want to be a “good person”, and “good…
#15 – Naval Ravikant and Brett Hall: Knowledge, Constraints, and Truth-Seeking MechanismsListen now (33 min) | Airchat: https://www.getairchat.com TIMESTAMPS 0:24 - The nature of knowledge 1:01- Constraints of progress 6:31 - The finite…
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Automating all non-creative activities.
Scientific theories are impersonal.
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And the derangements of science, the wonders of evolution, technology, and more
Almost everything to do with the evidence of modern civilization is the manifestation of thought.
School conflates passing of exams with learning. Emphasis is made on the procedure of teaching (to pass exams), rather than the result of learning. But…
14 – Don Watkins: Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand, Epistemology and WealthListen now (63 min) | Don Watkins is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the coauthor, along with Yaron Brook, of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn…
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