Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Roderick T. Long. A few moments of thought, perhaps… LikeLike

“Shane M. Loercher,” as should be obvious after even a moment’s thought, is an anagram of the name of my evil mechanical duplicate, “Sheer Mechano RL.” LikeLike

A letter addressed to Mr Gregg I. Adelman, Principal of the firm Kaplin-Stewart, Attorneys at Law, of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Dear Mr Adelman: This is not the first time I’ve informed your office that no one by the name of “Shane M. Loercher” lives at [my address]. Nor is it the first time I’ve informed…

In reply to mlyoung57. Yes. I agree with that. In fact, that framing helps to explain my intuition that the world is fundamentally an evil place that should probably just be destroyed at earliest convenience. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. If the stakes are high enough, the 10% chance of the applicant being trouble is just fine from a decision-theoretic and personal pragmatic standpoint, right? Maybe it is not from a moral standpoint, insofar as one is relying …

At 200ProofLiberals, Jess Flanigan cites a famous passage of Tolstoy’s to suggest that Christians ought to be anarchists. I don’t think anyone should be either a Christian or an anarchist, much less their conjunction, but let that go. It’s worth asking what would have happened had the early Christians followed Tolstoy’s advice. I think the…

In reply to mlyoung57. I don’t think we’re talking past one another. I think we’re just flatly disagreeing. The discussion began with my criticism of the norm that job candidates on the market ought not to speak ill of their previous …

Some quick replies: (a) More accurately, my relevant intuition would specify conditions in which the lying (or other normally-suspect behavior) is not only required but expected as part of “how these things go.” That speaks more to the sort…

In reply to <a href=”https://radicalclassicalliberals.com/2020/07/29/social-media-censorship-four-lessons-from-the-recent-suppression-of-covid-19-disinformation/comment-page-1/#comment-29″>adaptune</a>. Sorry–fixed!