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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Virtue, Happiness, and the Greeks: Burdened Interpretations by “Dangerous Loyalties” | Policy of Truth
[…] (like Roderick Long) I generally admire Tessman’s book, a basic problem with Burdened Virtues is its tendency to […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) “Dangerous Loyalties”
I wrote this back in mid-August, around the time when our reading group was reading Tessman’s Burdened Virtues. I was almost certain I’d posted it back then, but I can’t find it anywhere on the site, so at the risk of double-posting it, I figured I’d post it now. Chapter 6 of Lisa Tessman’s Burdened…
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) On Stable Diffusion
A good friend made a Facebook post saying “Sadly it turns out that the latest AI photo app y’awl using to look hot and sexy is built off the back of a training set full of work stolen from artists without payment. How disappointing. We sorted this shit years ago with Creative Commons licensing. It’s…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Three Passings, Three Losses by David Potts
I did not know Elizabeth Sciabarra or Walter Grinder, but I can share a memory of Jeffrey Friedman. The one and only time I ever met him was at a party at the apartment of David Ramsay Steele in Hyde Park, Chicago. It was one of the best parties of tha…
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(QC RSS) Many Little Legs
Skitter skitter
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(Cat and Girl) Hermit Crabs
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(The GiveWell Blog) December 2022 open thread
Our goal with hosting quarterly open threads is to give blog readers an opportunity to publicly raise comments or questions about GiveWell or related topics (in the comments section below). As always, you’re also welcome to email us at info@givewell.org or to request a call with GiveWell staff if you have feedback or questions you’d…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Atlas Mugged by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to boydstun. I haven’t finished this yet, but it’s extremely informative. Thanks! I’ll finish it tomorrow—on the train! LikeLike
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(QC RSS) The Wilhelm Smell
I will never be able to see a Tactical Man again without thinking of them as a Gun Janitor
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Reply to Touchstone by boydstun
Learn from Dr. Touchstone’s paper, I should say, in the following way: Take her springboard from my old papers as opposite the conclusion I drew in those papers. Take it as Touchstone’s conclusion drawn from material presented in those pape…
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