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They don’t serve food like any of the taquerias here in Texas, maybe superficially similar... they do serve burritos which are more Cali mex.

Why would the police say otherwise? Nice critical thinking.

Land, Dugin, Moldbug, and Rorty is not French.

Just watch him in the debate with Zizek. He’s clearly out of his league.

Can you name some musicians, artists, architects, philosophers? What are you talking about? This post is hilarious, you’re acting like studying French philosophy is doing fentanyl or something.

Your pseudo-intellectualism is painfully obvious here. French postmodernism (Foucault, Derrida) is very different from critical theory of the Frankfurt school. It’s a token sign of someone who hasn’t read any of them to lump them together.

The influence of Kantian ethics on Marx and Adorno’s philosophy is very strong. Kant was a genius but in many ways his morality was stuck in the worldview of 18th century bourgeois. These modern authors chose to update his work instead of simply repeating it as dogma. Ironic that you describe Marxism as a religion, then. No, Kant is not the “opposite” of a Frankfurt school philosopher, and you’d be hard pressed to find any reputable scholar who would agree with that. A better “opposite” might be someone more contemporary, like Austrian economists, Karl Popper, or logical positivists.

Also, why not reply to my post directly instead of I subtweeting me? You should probably read more before you accuse others of “philosophical disinfo.”

You’d be interested to hear, then, that most of Marx’s work is about analyzing capitalism and very little of it involves prescriptions for future societies. In fact, Marx wasn’t interested in drafting any exact plan for a post-revolutionary society. He was far more concerned with describing the internal contradictions of capitalism that would lead us to such a point.

Sure, except the mortality rate is nowhere near 100% and you will likely acquire the virus or it’s descendants at some point unless you continue washing your cereal boxes forever.

great, another lesswrong/rationalist asshat dumping on a humanities subject with brazen ignorance. blogposts like this should be used as toilet paper

you take the red pill, you read Marx, Althusser, and Adorno and your eyes are forever opened. you take the blue pill, you agree with the posts up voted above mine and go back to sleep. your choice, kid

kudos for doing the work, I forgot about this post

read adorno

OK, I actually do agree with the art history errors he points out–Graham's comment that "The paintings made between 1430 and 1500 are still unsurpassed," for example, is completely ridiculous. And I also totally agree that Developer Exceptionalism is a very irritating thing that Graham is guilty of.

I just don't agree that painting and programming are completely different, and I don't find any of the author's arguments very compelling. I've spent many hours both painting and programming (working towards a BFA in painting and a BA in CS)–the mental states that happen during the creative process, the types of thinking strategies employed, and the problem-solving techniques are actually very similar. They're just abstractly similar–which is why it doesn't really matter that painting takes place through materials and programming doesn't, or that you could substitute painting for any creative discipline that involves dealing with constraints. His arguments are bad, and I hope nobody walks away from that post agreeing that "hackers are nothing like painters."

This article is trash. His conception of what a painter is is just lifted from mysogynistic pop-culture stereotypes, and his argument essentially rests on his inability to compare the two arts on an abstract level (e.g thinking he's refuted graham just by pointing out that painting is done with materials and programming is done on a machine.)

Slate Star Codex: if you're a man who is involved in tech and not interested in any legitimate philosophical or sociological inquiry, we've got you covered

Yeah, I'm not saying they aren't art. They are, and like I said before, I'm excited about the medium. I just don't think there's anything with the intellectual depth or creative virtuosity as Pynchon-yet. It's a young medium with a high bar of entry.

Awful article. If you've never read a book that could captivate you as much as Doom, then you've probably just never read literature at a serious level.

I stopped reading when the author offered clickbait "best games of [year]" lists as evidence of the artistic accomplishment of video games. I'm totally excited by video games as a medium, but I've never seen anything that compared in creative quality to something like Pynchon.

or he could ask an academically trained philosopher of mathematics and probably receive a much more insightful response