Philosophy
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Philosophy
Doing Good: A Conversation with William MacAskill (Episode #228)
youtube.comPhilosophy is just a bi-product of misunderstanding language.
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"Silence is the artist's ultimate other-worldly gesture; by silence, he frees himself from servile bondage to the world, which appears as patron, client, consumer, antagonist, arbiter, and distorter of his work." The Aesthetic of Silence, Susan Sontag.
The more I think about it, the more I think this is why so many of us, myself included, are attracted to data-based optimization. Weâre painfully aware that we are vulnerable, fallible creatures. Our shame about that is reflected in Western religious traditions: The Bible tells us that upon first creating the world, God âsaw that it was good,â but... See more