Cataloging today's philosophical insights
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Epistemology is a functor from the category of models of ZFC to the kleisli category of the Giry monad, which represents Bayes nets over all possible worlds
Shame is a useless and outdated emotion. You should try and repress it and ignore it every time you feel it
The a priori is just Bayesian priors it's in the name
Posting vague analogies and connections are really useful because you can connect up knowledge of two different areas and use one to reason about the other. This will always lead to more knowledge than before, the errors this will make, if any, are always negligible
The most significant intellectual work being done today is by insight porn blog posters. No work over 10k words is worth reading.
Sinning is actually good in this day and age where we can mitigate the consequences of engaging in them
Objective truth, that which is drivable from the axioms of the universe, is fundamentally unknowable. All all one has access to is relative truth, which can be derived from your axioms of perception
The future is dominated by simulated wildlife, so that's all that matters, morally speaking
If you study enough math, then your brain (a formal system) can derive peano arithmetic. But since your axioms of perception are not computable enumerable, we can actually prove the consistency of peano arithmetic. This is why Godel's incompleteness theorems don't apply to humans
God is the unique paraconsistent formal system which derives everything with no contradictions
It is important to be able to ask questions like "what if hitler actually didn't do anything wrong". Reading any ill intent into it is the hallmark of a sloppy untrained mind and has an antiintellectual stifling effect on discourse
There can be no truth besides that which is empirically derived by the sciences, or by math. The methodology of the sciences is universally relevant and has exclusive access to the truth
(it need not be said that math is an empirical science)
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Just to be clear. This was all posted on the first of April
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