I really enjoyed @neilsinhababu.bsky.social's "Nietzsche on the eternal recurrence". Together with Paul Loeb's work it's persuaded me that Nietzsche believed his eternal recurrence doctrine to be literally true, or at least probably true. (1/4)
philpapers.org/rec/SINNOT-9
Replied to Kieran Healy, he’s bold as ever still
You’ll see his skeets on Bluesky, right there with Stancil Will
One can in fact do a wide variety of things with cryptocurrency, by bribing people with it. Not sure about solving the problem of induction though.
In this case, a cereal killer
I’m up for pooling for foundational measures if you can show me a good pool! In all these criticisms of EA there’s an absence where the alternative donation target should be.
Structural issues are huge! But how can individual donors actually affect structural issues? I’m totally up for structural change moves and my political donations are all about that. But that’s all very opaque from the outside. If you have an inside perspective, good for you, but not many do.
How are we going to decide what to donate to then? If we can’t calculate, what’s left but vibes?
Indeed, deworming is situational and we need better nets. But as far as I can see from the articles, there are still places where the deworming pills will have good effects, and money buys better nets. If there's some more cost-effective climate change donation opportunity, let me know!
Sure, it isn’t vs for our collective money, as there’s plenty. Of course that’s now in the hands of maniacs.
It is vs for the thousands I give away each year because that’s limited. I can’t personally fund everything, I’m just one guy, I have to choose.
Sorry, on climate it’s (for example) shifting to clean energy in places where it’s available.
It’s a vs type choice with my own donation dollars. The USAID cuts were perhaps the worst of all the things Trump has done. PEPFAR saved a million lives a year! Global public health is so good, so cheap.
Malaria bednets, micronutrient supplementation, and deworming pills
It’s important to stop climate change. But lots of money is going into that and the simple cheap solutions have been found. Best I can do on climate is political donations, but that isn’t single-issue.
For nonpolitical stuff I go straight at global public health because it’s so underfunded.
Okay, I agree with all that. But I donate to bednets rather than climate change mitigation, to save more lives.
if you die of malaria first, you never have to worry about the storm surge
Is there a climate change mitigation technology that saves a life at cheaper than $5k? That’s the price of saving a life with the bednets to prevent malaria.
Your $inema $peculation is consistent with what I’ve heard, including from another Senator’s chief of staff. $omeone paid her off for obstructionism.
How so? His ideas say we should start up capitalism in both of those countries, which seems right.
The order of history is feudalism then capitalism then communism. Don’t skip steps like Mao, it doesn’t turn out well.
Are they really close to eliminating the filibuster? I hadn’t heard that.
She needs to change her position on the filibuster by 2029, or we won’t be able to do much
In the present US, military generals have less power than businessmen with 12-digit wealth. That kind of money makes everyone else subservient.
imperialist baguette + revolutionary filling = delicious bahn mi
In the present US, military generals have less power than businessmen with 12-digit wealth. That kind of money makes everyone else subservient.
imperialist baguette + revolutionary filling = delicious bahn mi
Marcetic is consistently terrible. So many “hooray Ukraine is defeated” articles over the last few years.
exactly!
Kirk / Spock gay fanfic by women authors is the foundation of our culture
It's from 2004 – it was in the Iraq War, which made her an especially exciting potential candidate to Democratic strategists during the George W Bush era. </oldman>
Wasn’t there a beer guy who dropped out? Any chance he’ll get back in?
Ah good. For what I’d call Amartya Sen reasons, criticisms of democracy bring out the Bengal tiger in me. Sorry for biting.
The last 35 years, during which a democracy had global hegemony, had fewer per capita global deaths from violence than any previous period of similar length that I know of.
Dan Reiter’s scholarship on these general issues is excellent.
