Links
Blog: Dear Lurkers encourages people to participate in discussion to improve their lives and stop hurting people like their children.
Video: Rucka Reply on Retaliatory Force and Objectivism. My main topic is explaining that force should only be used when there’s a defensive purpose, not to get people back or punish them in aggressive ways, as Rucka advocated and Ayn Rand was somewhat unclear about. The video description has a table of contents and source links.
Blog: Learn about what David Deutsch’s Taking Children Seriously parenting/educational philosophy was actually like before me, with quotes from before I joined the community. There are more quotes in the comments below the post.
Blog: Confusion About Overreaching. Trying not to overreach shouldn’t prevent you from doing what you want. If it seems to, there’s a problem to be solved; don’t just accept that as how it’s supposed to work.
Blog: Popper Ignores Hamilton. I found something in the classics literature which Popper seems to have missed. The issue is about whether people prior to the Greeks had human-like Gods.
I’ve been enjoying reading Mythology by Edith Hamilton. It’s primarily about Greece and the author likes Western civilization. It’s well written and readable (it’s modern prose, not direct translation). Hamilton selects the best original sources for each myth, rather than focusing on Ovid like many other books. When available, Hamilton uses sources which believe the stories they’re telling.
Fallible Ideas discussion group: Privacy Rights. This discussion considers when privacy is a courtesy and when there’s more to it.
From the archives: Philosophy ideas presented as dialogs.
Chase Amante: The Law of Least Effort is a crucial idea for understanding how people are perceived as high or low social status.
Shylock Holmes: How to interact with potentially hostile journalists. This article relates the issue to suspects talking with the cops.
Politics from Daniel Greenfield: Democrats Defended Soleimani In Life and Death.
Want to know about software engineer hiring? patio11’s Twitter thread is good, as is the blog post it links to.
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