Image of An open letter to Bryan Johnson: philosophy - not technology - is the core operating system to improve if you want to change the world
An open letter to Bryan Johnson: philosophy - not technology - is the core operating system to improve if you want to change the world
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Bryan Johnson is an entrepreneur extraordinaire. To put it mildly, he's brilliant and an inspiration in so many ways. I recently read his Rewrite the OS, Change the World: A challenge worthy of the g...
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Neuroscientist Sam Harris on Drugs and the Meaning of Life
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The power of psychedelics, however, is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime... I believe that psychedeli...
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Absolutism vs. relativism - is truth subjective?
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Nowadays, relativism is a philosophy acclaimed by many; they defend it as a natural human truth and develop a way of living based on it. Whenever I hear or read a relativist, I feel the profound wi...
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Lying - The Death of Happiness
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From the time of our birth, we are victims to an infamous string of lies. Our innocence was used against us as an incubator for ignorance. We took the blue pill. In the graveyard of our minds, upon...
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Mental masturbation - what is the relevance of philosophy?
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How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? That's a metaphor for suggesting that someone is wasting time debating topics of no practical value. Philosophers are sometimes accused of...
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How to observe reality
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Observing reality truthfully is an essential tool for human development. It is the tool that allows us to act in accordance with our environment, to modify it, and to enrich our lives. Observing re...
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Tales from the Bizarro World
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Back in the 1960s, DC Comics introduced a parallel Earth called Bizarro, where everything is inverted and everyone is insane. They even have their own wacky Superman, which ends up being a formidab...
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Dying for love - immature vs. mature love
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. At least six... For some things in life, there are objective standards (e.g., what constitutes your right hand from your left hand). For other concepts...
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Idealism vs. pragmatism - the idealism/pragmatism dichotomy
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There's a joke in philosophy that goes like this: The First Law of Philosophy: For every philosopher, there exists an equal and opposite philosopher. The Second Law of Philosophy: They...
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Live long and prosper - the philosophy of Star Trek
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Stephen Fry once quipped that "most of human history and art can be expressed in Star Trek plots." So much about story-telling is presenting different philosophies in various contexts and describin...
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Ayn Rand Haters Will Hate
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After reading Rand's most famous work, Atlas Shrugged, I find my thoughts on politics and life profoundly inspired. Her characters and philosophical convictions are unapologetically pragmatic and sim...
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Rand on the Middle East
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By Murray N. Rothbard First published in The Libertarian Forum, December 1971. The neo-Randian weekly newspaper Ergo has given us a detailed account of Miss Rand’s answers during a questi...
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Stupid questions and how to make them better
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It is said that there's no such thing as a stupid question. While some of us will beg to differ (e.g., how many times do people ask questions they already know the answers to, and not in the rh...