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I've finally achieved the levels of coffee snobbery where my morning pourover is actually drinkable without any milk (also no sweetener but that goes without saying bc sweetening drinks is a feminine trait)

much is possible when you apply engineering mindset to everyday life

while it takes an expert to craft an argument in a domain (external consistency), any reasonably intelligent layman can evaluate whether it makes sense (internal consistency)

experthood lies in one's knowledge of the semantics of a domain language, not formal language itself

this distinction is something many normies refuse to understand; when you've relinquished epistemic authority to the institutions, it's in your egos benefit to believe you had no choice but to do so

otherwise, your sacrifice of agency was in vain & didn't actually buy security
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RT @robertwiblin
You usually don't need to be a domain expert to evaluate whether the arguments a domain expert is giving for X are internally coherent.

P…
https://twitter.com/robertwiblin/status/1382670331534528513

the point of philosophy is to degreeble your mind

staying up 2 extra hours to get my jab because I care about my health

they are either lying (to you or themselves) or deeply evil

life is messy, it is ugly and disgusting and banal

biology is a festering pile of flesh desperately trying to survive

but out of that arose MIND, and mind is the most beautiful thing

it's just yet another tradeoff.

some people would make the opposite choices, they would want us all to retvrn to the days the majority of newborns died before they hit a year, that life expectancy was under 50, that our daily lives were filled with toil

they claim theyd gladly trade that all for natural beauty

so many choices in life involve tradeoffs

would I rather my grandfather have died years ago, rather than undergo a deeply unsettling triple bypass?

how about factory farms; would I trade them for millions of people ceasing to exist?

condoms? birth control?

its not that simple

artificial wombs are one such technology

I'll admit, they're deeply unsettling to think about, & make me slightly nervous about long term effects

but would I rather force women to use their bodies to incubate, and give up opportunities they desire? no!

they're the lesser evil

so many useful and necessary things in life are unsavory; pacemakers, organ transplants, colostomy bags

sewers, large scale farms, fossil fuels

police, courts, jails, lawyers

you cannot avoid dealing with the ugliness of the world

(unless you're highly. privileged ofc)

often, these people stay safely quarantined in big cities, studying the humanities, employed in simple, no consequence occupations

but when they attain some measure of power, they become dangerous, and threaten our ability to engage in rational evidence-based policy

but if that's the case, we really have nothing to discuss. it's childish, imo; to so desperately want to world to be beautiful that you're unwilling to deal with uncomfortable truths, to dig in the epistemic muck and unearth the nuggets of truth concealed within

feminine trait

being attached to a romantic notion of things is diametrically opposed to honest inquiry and intellectual rigor; you cannot start from emotions you interpret as reality, and arrive on an accurate and useful model of the world

of course, one possible answer is that you don't care

people that think this way tend to be somewhat romantic, drawn to a certain watercolored view of life and humanity, wanting to inject magic into the mundane and reject the mechanization of the world

I understand the impulse, ofc. it's pretty natural. but it ignores reality
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RT @willlowthewhisp
I have no real way of communicating the horror I feel at the idea of artificial wombs.
https://twitter.com/willlowthewhisp/status/1382459189826629636

a guaranteed scissor statement: eugenics is not inherently bad
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RT @sentientist
Eugenics doesn't mean state sponsored or coercive- it's any attempt to increase desirable characteristics & decrease undesirable characteristics through genetic means. The state outlawing first cousin marriage & an individual engaging in prenatal screening are both eugenics. https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1381740364793409540
https://twitter.com/sentientist/status/1382421353270247431

while I do think we should give the addicts free (cheap & mediocre) housing

its really not necessary to make these things a dependency

this view stems from a certain scarcity mindset, a fundamental lack of understanding of society, governance, and economy

we can do both & more
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RT @uncle_deluge
Until every single person on the planet has their pyramid of needs fulfilled you don't get to accomplish anything that would reinvigorat…
https://twitter.com/uncle_deluge/status/1382048155370409988

I don't really have much of a point here besides to plant my flag firmly in the performative/learned camp. it doesn't make any sense to "not be a girl", it just doesn't parse. what you mean is "I see myself as not being someone who performs femininity predominantly"

a big issue here is that many people have made their answer to this question a fundamental part of their identity (something they are), and hence cannot evaluate the arguments rationally, lest it prove to be less solid than they imagined (something they do)

you can't have both; is gender innate, and dysphoria only resolvable by transition? or is it performative, and you could simply change your behavior?

same with sexual orientation; can you learn to be gay (performative) or are you born gay (innate)

nonbinaries reject this scheme