Mar27
So many people believe that porn is immoral while war is holy. So many others believe that war is immoral while porn is fine.
Interestingly, people sense of morality, in regards to porn and war, tend to be negatively correlated. Peace protestors are often naked, which would offend highly (self declared) righteous people like Osama Bin Laden and George Bush.
The religious militants, on the other hand, would often kill a lot of civilians, which would offend civilians a lot.
So, which one is right?
Perhaps, rather than trying to decide which one is right or wrong, it’s better to just observe and understand how different humans’ interests motivate different algorithms to classify right from wrong.
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Jul19
Many people believe that religions teach good stuff. Well, good or bad depends a lot on points of view. However, let’s ignore that aspect for a while.
The religious teachings are not the problem.
The problem with religion is not what it teach. The problem is in how people believe and defend the teachings.
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Jul3
How do we distribute wealth among us?
Some people would say that we distribute our wealth proportional to productivity within capitalistic society.
I do not mean how we distribute our wealth within capitalistic society. I also do not mean how we “should” distribute our wealth.
I mean how we actually distribute our wealth.
Wealth and natural resources gets divided […]
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Jun26
I was driving home from a marriage party. My girlfriend is driving because I can’t drive. Suddenly someone yell swear words at us. Then that guy stops in front of us. We apologize not understanding what’s wrong. They claimed that my gf hit brake suddenly. They look like they want to fight and keep yelling […]
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Jun20
When we’re not at war, we’re in race. That’s simply how we evolve.
Freedom means competition. When Ann is free to choose Bob or Jim, Bob or Jim will have to compete to get Ann’s precious eggs and 9 months 10 days rent.
Some people do not want to compete.
So they oppose freedom.
That’s why many governments intervention […]
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Jun19
So many people tell me I am stupid. However, I like Math.
Do you know why I like Math so much?
Well, in Math, everything is obvious. Every theorems, every formulas are derived.
So I always know why something is so.
And that’s not all. If something is not obvious for me, and I ask the professor, I know […]
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Jun16
They said that it’s to protect morality.
However, that’s just pretexts. Pretexts, while contain some truth in it, are filled with incoherency and will often fail to predict people’s behavior.
A governments official may talk at length the virtue of prohibiting factories with high labors’ productivity. Their real motives are to get bribe from factories that cannot […]
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