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    Objectivism Is The Everyman's Philosophy

    In the universe, what you see is what you get,

    figuring it out for yourself is the way to happiness,

    and each person's independence is respected by all

  • Rand's Philosophy in Her Own Words

    • "Metaphysics: Objective Reality" "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed/Wishing won’t make it so." "The universe exists independent of consciousness"
    • "Epistemology: Reason" "You can’t eat your cake and have it, too." "Thinking is man’s only basic virtue"
    • "Ethics: Self-interest" "Man is an end in himself." "Man must act for his own rational self-interest" "The purpose of morality is to teach you[...] to enjoy yourself and live"
    • "Politics: Capitalism" "Give me liberty or give me death." "If life on earth is [a man's] purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being"

  • Objectivism Online Chat

    Reblogged:Four Sci-Techish Things

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge 1. Stanford's President, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, will soon be resigning (and retracting or correcting five widely-cited papers) after an investigation sponsored by the university found "manipulation of research data." One of the first to catch some of the problems was Elisabeth Bik, who is known for her prowess at catching image manipulation in scientific papers, and was the subject of a fascinating profile in the New York Times last year. Within, she recounts how she got st

    Reblogged:The Best Time and Place to Say 'I Told You So'

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Over at Ask a Manager, Alison Green fields a question from a reader who wonders if there is a professional way to tell her boss I told you so. Said boss had the writer and her coworkers go through training on signs that a client's proposed project should be turned down -- only soon after to ignore various "red flags" en route to assigning her to a project that turned out as badly as she expected, based on the training. Green provides a good way to do this, and notes that some bosses might be r

    Reblogged:Maryland Fights Back on Abortion

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    At Slate is a good update on the state-level aftermath of Dobbs, as far as pro-choice states go, with the main focus being on Maryland. As with practically anything these days, the news is mixed: Blue states are working to ensure "access" to abortions, including for non-residents. I've explained the good and bad of this before in "Free Abortions vs. Abortion Freedom:"So, to get the bad news out of the way, blue states are, to varying degrees, finding new ways to make people pay for other people

    Reblogged: Lieberman Defends No Labels

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    I have discussed No Labels here before. It's an organization that has come to prominence lately because it is working to supply a viable third choice to the presidential ballot in 2024 if America's two parties produce the Trump-Biden rematch most Americans dread. As much as I despise both parties -- each in the respective clutches of its worst elements -- and will enjoy seeing them panic if this actually happens, I stand by what I said earlier:Having said that, Lieberman's piece is interesting

    Epistemological Consequences of a Consciousness Being Partially Infallible/Fallible

    ReasonFirst
    By ReasonFirst,
    I have a hypothetical question that I am thinking about and I wanted to see what other people think about it.  We know that human beings are not omniscient AND that human beings are fallible.  With regard to fallibility I think Objectivism’s position is that there exists a general possibility of error that can impede the human ability to acquire knowledge that is certain.  I think I read somewhere that Objectivism holds that the possibility of error is abstract and metaphysical and specific erro

    Reblogged:Must-Read on Government's Tech Censorship

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    On errands this weekend, I was listening to an episode (embedded below) of the Yaron Brook Show, where the host recommended a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Phillip Hamburger, of the Columbia School Law School. The title alone -- "How the Government Justifies Its Social-Media Censorship" -- is, as Brook indicates, a rare does of clarity in today's muddled and often dishonest debate about the subject. This is because Hamburger places the blame where it belongs -- on the government -- at

    Reblogged:Virtue-Signaling vs. Affordable Car Insurance

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Today, the following headline at Issues and Insight caught my eye: "Have We Reached Peak Virtue Signaling With EVs?" That piece focused on the fact that, despite government mandates, subsidies, and tax breaks -- and the left-wing culture machine working overtime to fuel the fad -- inventories of electric vehicles are piling up. But what really got my attention came from a short listing of deficiencies for these vehicles that nobody seems to want despite their alleged superiority:I consider mys

    "Biological Basis Of Teleological Concepts"

    RosszValaki
    By RosszValaki,
    Has anyone read Harry Binswanger's "The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts"? Could you tell me a little about it?

    Reblogged:Four Neat Things

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge 1. YouTuber Steve Mould answers the question Can water solve a maze? by constructing a pair of (differently-complex) acrylic mazes at two different scales and pouring water into them. This he does after being presented with a computer-simulated answer to the question. The video is enough fun to watch that I don't think this spoiler will hurt: Not only is the answer yes, but the water does so with different algorithms depending on whether surface tension alone is enough to h

    Reblogged:Svensson on 'Stubborn Computing'

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Self-described computer nerd Carl Svensson lays out his thoughts on computing, and they resemble my own in many ways. While I'm not sure I'd necessarily have named the approach stubborn computing, I'm glad he lays it out as a positive choice, rather than allow others to label it contrarianism or any number of other things:I'd be tempted to call this selfish computing and indeed Svensson himself states Stubborn computing is about using computers the way you want to. But the term I find so tempt

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