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I was talking about this with @gritcult the other day, what does it mean to be human? Obviously the question is meaningless if you view it from the wrong zoom

As I have said before there is nothing toxic about masculinity, and yet, and yet, my friends, there are many things that men do that are shall we say less

Nietzsche was the first and greatest Feminist! Truly! I will reveal this truth to you now. Who could forget the opening line of Beyond Good and Evil, wherein the old

"We need a new religion" I often hear people on the right speak this idea. I have often contemplated it myself. Alas I think those who long for a new

“You've got to believe in something... the problem is there's more than psych truth... there's a need for the numinous"Tom identifies an important puzzle: whatever shall we make of faith?https://twitter.com/tomxhart/statu

Many of you have contempt for people like @samharrisorg and @richarddawkins but their accomplishment 10 years ago is worth understanding, and over time they have shown they lack a certain

No nuanced and thoughtful words survive first contact with a person of average intelligence. A group of people is slightly smarter than its dumbest member Nuanced/thoughtful words cannot survive in

I have spoken already about affordances of the mind, but there is still much ground to explore. “Minimally counterintuitive” is another hook that ideas use to stick in our thoughts.

Dietary taboo thread. Food, which is needed to sustain life, takes on a sacred characteristic. It could be that in the past, dietary taboos were adaptive; many plants are poisonous,

Ecstasy thread. Religious ecstasy, communion with the divine, the image of the asymptote where we mere mortals meet the transcendent. When we are properly aligned with the true being and

Eschatology thread. An enumeration of the ways the world will end. If we know the beginning and we know the end then we know our place in the world. Eschatology

The outside and the outside view The outside view from rationalism. You try to look at a system from an impersonal perspective, treating yourself as if you were a third