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#Utilitarian
𝐀 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 (@🏡✊🏼✊🏿 )
TruthSalvo
Up front, because someone I know IRL asked me to clarify this, but I do not identify myself as a Democrat, or liberal, or progressives; because identifying yourself by a
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Addison Del Mastro
ad_mastro
I find that I'm pretty sympathetic to "technocratic" governance if we mean practical expertise and problem-solving, and especially if the alternative is vague and menacing platitudes about virtue and moral
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lily @ kana-boon stan
LeafyFroggy
okay i jumped on the bandwagon and did it i still might change the tea timer icon i was hesitant to do this since it’s not very utilitarian,
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R.P.
ResonantPyre
I think only Wittgenstein could set right the utilitarians that start to get so concerned about pleasure and pain in abstract that they start to worry about reinforcement learning (this
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🛡 Prof. Colin Talbot 🛡
colinrtalbot
I have been pondering the question I posed y'day about why a Government so supposedly interested in “data science” seems incapable of handling data about C19 with any semblence of
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Jeffs Comics
jeffs_comics
The Starfleet uniforms were redesigned for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan by Robert Fletcher (Born 1922 and still with us). Fletcher had also designed the uniforms for ST:TMP,
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old but cute.
coaIsack
fe3h as booths at a craft fair thank you!! dedue and ashe sell plants & also dedue makes absurdly cute plant pots & maybe mugs & shit too. and also
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Asterix N@tionalism
AsterixNational
Got around to watching this video by @DataDistribute, which defines the right-wing in terms of commitment to a collective, transcendent, moral good (to summarise as briefly as possible)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_kuFyN3Cwk It seems
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alan drummond
alandrummond2
COVID-19 crisis: In a pandemic, the philosophy of death is suddenly top of mindThe philosophy of saving the most lives possible in swamped hospital emergency rooms is suddenly a matter
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Mike Duggan
MikeDuggan4
For my sins, I spent yesterday reading the UK’s Geospatial Strategy 2020-2025 and thought I’d give it some of the critical attention it deserves considering the weight it will carry
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jes skolnik
modernistwitch
honestly sometimes young people ask me for music journalism career advice and if i can give you any it is this - don't expect a career. i'm personally shocked that
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Ethics in Bricks
EthicsInBricks
THREADHappy #trolleyday! Today's the birthday of Philippa Foot, the mother of one of the best known ethical dilemmas of our time: the 'trolley problem'.(Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem) The original tro
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Jack Scott
Jackscottauthor
It’s My Birthday and I’ll Cry If I Want ToA thread http://perkingthepansies.com/2020/10/16/its-my-birthday-and-ill-cry-if-i-want-to/ I’m now officially old and young people in shops call me sir. I’d like to say 60 is the
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aaron vansintjan🐙
a_vansi
It’s come to my attention that people are… arguing over whether gardening is “revolutionary”??? That this discussion is actually happening shows how its so easy for “the discourse” to stray
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Mr. Possible of Oxbridge✨
Mrpossidez
The problem with saying animals have “rights” is that they cannot be said to have corresponding obligations. If my cat bites me, can I enforce my own right against the
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Irenes (many)
ireneista
Trying to answer this poll made us realize... in hindsight, though we didn't see it that way at the time, the creation of the Developer ID program was the exact
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