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In practice, we find that postulated standards in objectivist accounts of desire tend to closely match the predilections of a typical contemporary Western-educated humanities professor. I suppose it is fortuitous that this particular demographic happens to be such an exquisite instrument for gauging objective value!
— Oct 15, 2026 11:56PM
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Manny
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It is obvious at a glance that The Exaltation of ThermoRex was written by the late Stanislaw Lem. Professor Bostrom, could I possibly trouble you for your medium's contact details? She's damn good.
— Oct 15, 2026 02:34PM
Manny
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Bostrom considers the question of how a utopian society can accommodate individuals who are only able to find satisfaction by harming other individuals, and claims that cats can find as much satisfaction playing with a ball of yarn as they do torturing a mouse to death. Speaking as someone who shares a house with a cat that has a high prey drive, I question this.
— Oct 14, 2026 03:20AM
Manny
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This book is not what I had been led to believe. I was expecting it to be like Superintelligence, but so far it's more like Candide.
— Oct 09, 2026 05:19PM