Personal truths, political truths, and objective truths r/badphilosophy


Existential Ad Agency r/badphilosophy

The lame science puns and inside jokes, the self-satisfaction that comes from studying a "hard" subject and what that says about you, the naive optimism of science as something noble leading the world in a positive direction, and confusing nature and technology with science as if that means anything. 175. AplombPlummer.


Found this on Instagram lol r/badphilosophy

Here are our new rules: Only moderators and approved submitters may post on r/badphilosophy . Asking to become a moderator or approved submitter will result in a ban. All ban appeals must be accompanied by at least five cute pictures of animals. All posts must be good badphilosophy, and not bad badphilosophy or bad goodphilosophy.


Yudkowsky the Tarski scholar r/badphilosophy

TheMagusO โ€ข 10 mo. ago. There are philosophers who wereagainst the usage of words to convey ideas, but Derrida was not one of them. He criticised the existance of connection between the two, but he didn't claim one should not speak - quite the opposite as evident by his many writings. 1.


Prepare to be incepted! r/badphilosophy

A (somewhat) recent discussion in the "samharris" sub produced some of the following posts about ()philosophy: "In math or physics, there is a large corpus of knowledge that you should know before you try to add anything.


I'm way smarter than all Greek Philo's r/badphilosophy

r/badphilosophy is decently older than r/badhistory.IIRC r/badhistory was the first badsub to implement the explanation rule and a lot of the other badsubs (of which all but r/badphilosophy was either dead or nonexistent) followed suit (or created as a direct result of r/badhistory's popularity), except r/badphilosophy, which had a pretty well-defined culture (basically /lit/ lite) at that point.


In r/badphilosophy r/UnexpectedTF2

Buddha : Wake Up - Rage against the machine. Kierkegaard: Chop Suey (I cry when angels deserve to die) - System of a Down. Nietzsche: Pain - 3 days grace. Bakunin: Fight for your right (to party) // Land of confusion - Disturbed. Marx: Do you hear the people sing. - Le Miz. Rousseau: psychosocial - slipknot.


Simple problems> simple solutions r/badphilosophy

I think you're absolutely right that the essential question of socialism is ownership. To be honest I wasn't responding to the linked thread that much since I clicked away after seeing it's something to do with academic economics, and was really responding to op's characterization of the bad philosophy present, that "USSR is socialist and Marx advocated for central planning".


Personal truths, political truths, and objective truths r/badphilosophy

r/badphilosophy is often used as a substitute for argument, as a way of ending conversations, typically ones that began in other subreddits. I've also noticed that the tone of most redditor's posts in r/philosophy and r/askphilosophy start to change once they begin posting in r/badphilosophy--though there are a number of exceptions. In general.


Being wellspoken doesn't mean you're right. r/badphilosophy

Suicide is the solution to all of your problems. Death is the solution to all the ills and torments of life. No good deed goes unpunished- the reward for success is another battle. The reward for sating hunger, is the experience of hunger on another day. You're doing it yourself. One jump and it's all over, one bullet to the skull, and it's.


A lil' starterpack r/badphilosophy

Whatifalthist is the gift that keeps on giving. [The left pulls from] belief in equality and lack of harm that stems from a combination of Marxism and Christianity. You can actually see this as a manifestation of an ideological struggle inherent in all of Western civilization between traditional Christianity and Augustinian interpretations.


Will you fight or will you perish like a dog? r/badphilosophy

If you're going to crosspost Reddit-born bad philosophy here, try to educate the bad philosopher beforehand. It's rare but they may actually learn something. Otherwise, more bad philosophy to be shared. r/badphilosophy is not an accurate representation of philosophy as a profession nor reddit's philosophical community.


/lit/ on Ayn Rand r/badphilosophy

gnosticism a knowledge statement, whilst theism is a statement about a god. So instead of having Gnosticism in the middle you have it applied to the atheist rejection of a belief in god (s) or applied to the theists acceptance of a belief in god (s), creating the subcategories (a)gnostic atheist, (a)gnostic theist. 1.


Plato updated. r/badphilosophy

Trying to argue a label based on your understanding of it, instead of arguing the substance. When Aron Ra said that rocks are atheist, the meaning he conveyed is that rocks do not believe that at least one god exists. And more importantly, his usage of the word "atheist" IS correct.


1932 best r/badphilosophy images on Pholder A genuinely good Kant meme (taken from Twitter)

Bing is a language model composed of hundreds of billions of parameters. It trains on massive amounts of text to create a map of language in embedding space. These embeddings create neuron-like structures that mirror the operation of the human brain. Bigger technical explainer here .


4chan's /his/ on the differences between sophists and Platonists r/badphilosophy

It's so goddamn petty and I'm tired of it. The only links from r/philosophy that ever make it to my front page are the same shit, fucking, physics vs. philosophy, lover of wisdom, science rules, philosophy isn't science, inane petty insignificant bullshit. It's like the least interesting thing in all of philosophy to talk about. It's squabbling make-believe politics that no one working on.


Twitter Produces the Best Bad Philosophy Takes r/badphilosophy

The very start of the debate is marked with Destiny telling the audience what Wolff's positions are, and then continues to insist that Wolff doesn't know what he's talking about. Though Wolff is an economist and not a philosopher, his exchange with Destiny illustrates a larger problem with consuming ideas on the internet.