Scaffolding is actually useful, he's completely irrelevant to actual thought about this. However he is unfortunately influential to some silicon valley nonsense.
I certainly find it aggravating!
Jordan Peterson is shaking his head in dismay.
it's more likely than you think! because if it's at all possible, by quantum physics, it must occur somewhere, ie, here.
Many of them started down the path long beforehand.
My eye glows appreciatively.
I saw some people say they'd spent ten hours reading this and trying to update their opinions. Tbf I might've spent nearly two hours making fun of them?
Do they want him re-instated in the polycule, too? Will it be like that scene in Diamond Age?
my only hope is that it's not, like, undergrads...
You only get credit for thinking about and warning about something if you have thought good ideas or were right about that thing. Not saying the person he's criticizing is right, either.
what are these fucking clowns even supposed to be doing that's so important? what the fuck are these numbnuts even producing that's supposed to be any good for the world whatsoever? they're traipsing around the world taking drugs and fucking with an entourage of poorly paid non-employees? and producing what? why are those people so invested in any way in them (and don't look now, I'm coming back with the same questions about everybody else in those threads)?
A good chunk of philosophers do believe there are moral facts, but this is less useful for these purposes than one would think