Rob Sica
@robsica
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Knowledge would have little allure if we did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to acquiring it. -Nietzsche
Fort Collins
Joined July 2010
RT @acerbialberto: Maybe an interesting link between the fact that we find difficult to give artistic credit to AI and the idea of looking…
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RT @random_walker: One of the biggest areas of AI hype right now is the notion that it will hyperaccelerate scientific progress. I understa…
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"We propose that any environment, natural or built, can evoke positive affect when fulfilling important needs, including access to resources or social connection."
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"In considering the origins of taboos, we might all benefit from re-examining our own unquestioned rules. This is not a call to abandon caution, but an invitation to think critically about why we follow the rules we do." -@KevinHong1991
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"once we invoke the ideal of the intellectual marketplace as a reason to value diversity, we can’t say that diversity of political opinion shouldn’t count at all"
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RT @Doc_Licon: I have a VERY rough pager idea along these lines. Haven't had time to turn it into something respectable though. https://t.c…
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"people’s beliefs about their actions and motivations are mostly self-serving and post-hoc, designed to obscure or rationalize what they are really doing and what their real motivations are (philosophers are significant contributors to this obfuscation)"
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RT @PsychRabble: New Post. "Academics on X and elsewhere have been screaming Apocalypse!" in response to Trump admin's cut of grant indirec…
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@FadiAkil4 That portion of notebook material -- which Leiter recurrently mines in his legal realism papers -- is so rich. Wish Nietzsche's sanity has lasted long enough for him to develop it all into published form.
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RT @FadiAkil4: @robsica "The Sophists verge upon the first critique of morality, the first insight into morality:—they let it be known that…
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"the 2nd Essay, & to a lesser extent the 3rd Essay, are also constrained & corroborated by the conclusions of contemporary anthropology... learns a lot from the anthropologists... dispenses entirely with any organizing or comforting teleological paradigm"
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"the theorist who displays the kind of ideological self-consciousness that Shklar advocates is likely 2 accept a large degree of moral & poly pluralism & recognize that ideologies seeking 2 overcome it are, at best, false &, at worst, positively dangerous"
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"if we find ourselves longing for self-knowledge, wishing perhaps 2 be less estranged from ourselves, then #Nietzsche’s genealogical mode of inquiry harbors all the normative force it needs 2 potentially show us something terribly important about ourselves"
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"likely to strike readers as rather implausible, or even perverse, at first sight... this initial implausibility always disappears... very credible... a genuine contribution to a better understanding of the nature of Christianity"
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RT @StatModeling: If there really is more fraud being done by prominent scientists than there was in the past, why? Here’s a theory: https:…
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