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luke-smith
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 (4y ago)

Odysee stream over, worked well!
Just finished by first stream on LBRY/Odysee. If you missed it, don’t sweat it, we didn’t talk about anything too interesting, just trying Odysee’s new streaming abilities.

There was some bandwidth problems on my end, but Odysee itself seemed to handle the stream very well. ⌘ Read more

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luke-smith
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 (4y ago)

Modern “Freedom” Means Being a Slave to Impulses

What does freedom mean?

See this article in video form here.

Which of the following two people is more free:

  1. A drug addict.
  2. A average man who is only not a drug addict because he lives in a country where drugs are regulated or shamed in a way to make them hard to obtain.

Most modern people will have a kind of cognitive disson … ⌘ Read more

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luke-smith
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 (4y ago)

Conspiratorial Thinking and “Multiple Outs”

How to do magic tricks…

Magicians have this concept called “Multiple Outs.” It’s actually how you can do simple magic tricks. Suppose you have a person pick a card and say you will guess the suit of their card.

They pick a diamond card and announce it, and you tell them to check underneath their chair to reveal a slip of paper that says, “You will pick a diamond card.”

That might sound like a nice trick, but if they had picke … ⌘ Read more

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luke-smith
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 (4y ago)

The Problems with Utilitarianism
I originally wrote this essay in 2014 or 2015 in a Chinese buffet in Athens, Georgia. I’ve changed some of it and am re-adding it here. I talk about the issues with Utilitarianism and a bad book by Sam Harris.

Utilitarianism

At a dumb intuitive level, the “ethical” idea of Utilitarianism in principle gets pretty close to what most people reflexively want from social-political affairs: the greatest good for the greatest number of people—who … ⌘ Read more

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