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Why Justice Is Fundamentally Democratic

January 6, 2021 Dom Leave a Comment

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Justice cannot be objective because it is rooted in subjective intuition and opinion. But neither can justice be subjective because then it would lose its usefulness as a concept (if everyone means something different when speaking of justice, it's useless to talk about it in the first place). Therefore, lying somewhere between objective and subjective, justice is intersubjective. To give a definition, justice is what a people deems to be fair. What justice means in practice can thus be … [Read more...]

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Singer’s Child-In-The-Pond Argument

December 15, 2020 Dom Leave a Comment

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Peter Singer's child-in-the-pond argument goes like this: Imagine you are walking past a shallow pond and you notice a small child drowning in it. Would you ruin your favorite, quite expensive, pair of shoes in order to rush into the pond and save the child, or would you rather save your shoes and let the child drown? It is pretty obvious that only a sociopath would prioritize his shoes over a child's life. So far so good. But then comes the analogy: There are so many children all over the … [Read more...]

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Egoism vs. Altruism: A Game-Theoretic Perspective

November 21, 2020 Dom Leave a Comment

We can clearly define concepts like egoism, selfishness, and selfless altruism when we look at our everyday decisions from a game-theoretic perspective. Think of every possible interaction between people as a game where each party can either win or lose. This gives us the following grid with four possible outcomes: 1. Win-Win (Effectiveness) In a win-win situation, both you and the other group or person benefit from the interaction, and with your plus added to the other's plus, you get a … [Read more...]

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Meta-Hypocrisy Undermines Our Judgment of Hypocrisy

September 2, 2020 Dom Leave a Comment

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When I criticize someone for doing something that I would do myself, I am a hypocrite because my criticism typically implies the pretense that I wouldn't. The same glass house logic applies to hypocrisy itself. Unless I have absolute certainty that I would never be hypocritical, which I practically cannot have, I cannot judge anyone of being hypocritical because this would make me meta-hypocritical, that is, hypocritical about my own hypocrisy. … [Read more...]

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Statistics Versus the Individual

July 22, 2020 Dom Leave a Comment

The distinction between statistics and the individual is among the most far-reaching concepts of the modern world. We can view everything from science and its philosophy to politics, ethics, and economics in the light of that distinction. Recall that statistics is about averages, trends, and patterns that emerge from large numbers (effects of scale), whereas the individual, though it may appear in a statistic as a data point, escapes most typical methods of quantification. This has … [Read more...]

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Dom is a European man keenly devoted to the gods of sylvan wisdom. He is also a cognitive scientist and philosopher by training, a data scientist by trade, and a strength athlete and martial artist at heart. [Read more…]

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Core Concepts

1. Freedom is the degree to which one does one’s True Will.

2. True Will is what one wants to do in a state of mindcoolness.

3. Mindcoolness is the absence of dysfunctional emotions that perturb rational thought and diminish intelligence; more deeply, it is self-knowledge and freedom from egoic identifications.

4. Know thyself, then do what thou wilt.

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