Recently at XKCD [https://xkcd.com/1726/]: This is almost a perfect example of why so many computer geeks are progressives – they have faith in the ability of systems to adjust how people behave rather than adjusting those systems to how people work. Of course reality is never that black and white. If I’m starting up a steam turbine, or a computer, there may be leeway here and there, but certain things haveto happen before certain other things. Period. In this case, people have to adapt to th…
One of the things I admire about Stefan Molyneux is his ability to face things he doesn’t like. One of these areas has been his recent set of videos discussing religion in a positive light (something he incidentally shares with Scott Adams). In this one, he discusses what evidence exists to point toward the existence of the divine. To refer back at first to Scott Adams, I’m not one for the meat-robot theory. I fully acknowledge we are not rational, often are run by our subconscious, and at a ve…
One other thought related to the Moleneux / Adams interview I already mentioned [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/09/stefan-molyneux-and-scott-adams-on.html]. Any system or ideology has to account for failure, and scope is important here. As I alluded to in my poor handling of the twitter idiot [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/09/sjws-always-lie-sf-edition.html]: > LastRedoubt @vfm_5411 LastRedoubt Retweeted Sami Sundell Removing a mole, and a limb, are merely degrees of removing body tissue……
A comment seen over at Vox Populi post taking a look at the Balkanization of SF [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/09/nobody-ever-did-nothing.html]: > “Both of these publications were edited by the same person. At the time, I wasn’t sure if he had abominable taste, or if the “good old stuff” wasn’t being written any more because the Zeitgeist had changed.” That would be Gardner Dozois, editor of ASIMOV’S SF magazine from 1984 to 2004, who is hugely responsible for the bastardization of science f…
It’s been a long time on this rock, and I’m sure in five or ten years, I’ll think I’m even wiser. Or at least learned a few more lessons the hard way. Nevertheless, I was watching an interview with Scott Adams and Stefan Molyneux [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsH17taSBzo], and I was floored by the number of threads that came together for me that I’d been mulling a while. First – background – I’ve been through most of the political spectrum at one time or another, in search of truth. I’ve lef…