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The Farcaster Forum for Philosophy.
remember kids: there's no reward for playing life on a hard mode, only punishment
only the achievements get rewarded, yet to achieve you must play the life hard
playing hard != playing on hard mode
only the achievements get rewarded, yet to achieve you must play the life hard
playing hard != playing on hard mode
Alright, let's see how I can curate this channel into an actual philosophy rails where people would memex their way into a Stanford Philosophy equivalent of a flow.
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Gökhan Turhan
@gokhan.eth·4 days ago
Shall "I" retire the philosophy channel for good?
people who polarize others as in SOL vs ETH people live in an evolutionary bubble
Lesson in there ✍🏻
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nick
@nickysap·3 days ago
one cannot betray that to which he was never loyal
I think a lot of contemporaneous pop philosophy authors are not philosophers and they are just publishing light novels for Northern European K-Pop as in K-tek fans of existential dread.
i believe there's an untapped potential in friendships with people who don't come off nice
it's easy to be friends with purely nice people — but in my experience purely nice people rarely make it up the social ladder enough
don't get me wrong, they can get high but not ceo-level high or successful entrepreneur-level high (with some exceptions that don't apply in 99.999% of cases)
being friends with people who might seem "assholey" from time to time yet have the hearts of gold is only marginally more difficult yet sets up your network way better
this quality extends further than the person you're friends with: if you only do the easy thing and be friends with only always-nice people, no matter who these people are, you won't jump higher than the heads of your friends; i.e. you won't go up high enough
tl;dr: if you're friends with only always nice people, you're taking the easy path; and the easy path is rarely rewarding
it's easy to be friends with purely nice people — but in my experience purely nice people rarely make it up the social ladder enough
don't get me wrong, they can get high but not ceo-level high or successful entrepreneur-level high (with some exceptions that don't apply in 99.999% of cases)
being friends with people who might seem "assholey" from time to time yet have the hearts of gold is only marginally more difficult yet sets up your network way better
this quality extends further than the person you're friends with: if you only do the easy thing and be friends with only always-nice people, no matter who these people are, you won't jump higher than the heads of your friends; i.e. you won't go up high enough
tl;dr: if you're friends with only always nice people, you're taking the easy path; and the easy path is rarely rewarding
Traditional notions of originality and authorship are anti-growth, and cripple evolutionary acceleration games.
Shall "I" retire the philosophy channel for good?
What is ego death?
ladies, make sure to tell off a dunce today !
can’t quite pinpoint the systemic failures that have culminated in the plague of such pitiful, testosterone-deficient semblance of “man” we see in today’s society… in such unprecedented times of male weakness & insecurity, make sure to assert your own strength and self-respect.
at least women are as strong and smart as ever 🙏
can’t quite pinpoint the systemic failures that have culminated in the plague of such pitiful, testosterone-deficient semblance of “man” we see in today’s society… in such unprecedented times of male weakness & insecurity, make sure to assert your own strength and self-respect.
at least women are as strong and smart as ever 🙏
"With quantum physics, physics acquired a philosophical dimension. We are not measuring the world as quantum physicist Neils Bohr said, we are creating it. [...] Consciousness is a vital part of this physical system, which should no longer be considered as a mechanical construction, but as a living organism whose individual parts are interconnected by an energetic communication system."
in: Ursula Biemann – Forest Mind: On the Interconnection of All Life (Spector Books, Leipzig)
in: Ursula Biemann – Forest Mind: On the Interconnection of All Life (Spector Books, Leipzig)
And a shitcoin philosopher appears
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six
@six·18:39 06/03/2025
No man every buys the same shitcoin twice, for it's not the same shitcoin and he's not the same man.
price is down, but i don’t believe price is down
Lately, I can’t move. There is no energy, no motivation—just a heavy stillness pressing against me, as if the world has lost its color and meaning. I wonder: Is this despair? What is despair, really? It feels like a whirlpool, dark and unrelenting, pulling everything into its depths—not just sadness or grief, but a dislocation of the self, a tearing away from meaning, from hope, from the ground of being.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I didn’t work this hard to get where I am—and to where I’m headed—just to tolerate disrespect in any form.
I’ll always stay true to myself, and if you think you can insult or attempt
to exploit me behind closed doors, remember this: I don’t forget. Ever. I have the memory of an elephant.
And when the perfect time comes, I will make an example of you. It’s not a question of “if”—it’s a question of “when”. I know exactly who I am, what I am capable of & the power of timing.
I’ll always stay true to myself, and if you think you can insult or attempt
to exploit me behind closed doors, remember this: I don’t forget. Ever. I have the memory of an elephant.
And when the perfect time comes, I will make an example of you. It’s not a question of “if”—it’s a question of “when”. I know exactly who I am, what I am capable of & the power of timing.
I dropped philosophy in first year of uni when I was 18 because I just didn’t grok it.
I just didn’t get the key intellectual levers that writers were trying to pull.
When I graduated a few years later and read philosophy for my own sake, it dawned on me that I really was just too young for it.
I do think you actually need some context, either from life experience or philosophical exposure, to really participate in philosophy.
I just didn’t get the key intellectual levers that writers were trying to pull.
When I graduated a few years later and read philosophy for my own sake, it dawned on me that I really was just too young for it.
I do think you actually need some context, either from life experience or philosophical exposure, to really participate in philosophy.
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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds·22:41 02/03/2025
Everyone who has studied philosophy is a philosopher.
Philosophied!
Philosophied!
“How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.” - Peter Sloterdijk
read a slogan today, can’t really get it out of my head:
‘perfect is the enemy of good’
apparently the phrase is attributed to french philosopher and writer Voltaire; le mieux est l'ennemi du bien (translates as ‘the best is the enemy of the good’)
being a perfectionist, might be doing something wrong 🤔
‘perfect is the enemy of good’
apparently the phrase is attributed to french philosopher and writer Voltaire; le mieux est l'ennemi du bien (translates as ‘the best is the enemy of the good’)
being a perfectionist, might be doing something wrong 🤔
Internet culture is speedrunning the history of human thought.
someone was like
“you should wear the same thing every day so you don’t spend so much time finding an outfit”
um… maybe I enjoy the philosophical brain power it takes to put together an outfit ?
Have you ever thought of that??
“you should wear the same thing every day so you don’t spend so much time finding an outfit”
um… maybe I enjoy the philosophical brain power it takes to put together an outfit ?
Have you ever thought of that??
we need Circles trustees. i've been using their platform for 4 years now and yet again we need to be trusted again ffs
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Gökhan Turhan
@gokhan.eth·22:35 24/02/2025
hey thanks! is this working?
https://app.metri.xyz/p/profile/0x6b1d6623E4E483C626E0Bfe14F326BEB4b5f5Ed7
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"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth"
wise
wise
I am 99.9% certain this is not what Carl Jung would think.
I know not to expect good takes from Cointelegraph, but why do they need to butcher philosophers' ideas with the most superficial understanding of them?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/memecoins-archetypes-collective-unconscious-crypto-quant-ceo
I know not to expect good takes from Cointelegraph, but why do they need to butcher philosophers' ideas with the most superficial understanding of them?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/memecoins-archetypes-collective-unconscious-crypto-quant-ceo
What exactly differentiates Zora's hypershitcoinization of creator economy from random exotic token pools off the 333rd Uniswap fork on some sweatshop protocols?
It won't take off. It might even kill the protocol.
Though, only through hypershitcoinization of arts and culture will we have better tokenized real art class assets onchain.
It won't take off. It might even kill the protocol.
Though, only through hypershitcoinization of arts and culture will we have better tokenized real art class assets onchain.
Milton's Rainbow - Colors, Language and How We See the World 🌈 https://arbesman.substack.com/p/miltons-rainbow
Why philosophy?
“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another.” – Aristotle
"Hegelian e-Girl Capital is not ready for Brassierite MEV searcher bots"
he murmurs to himself associating what he just asked Grok about to e-girl capital and the not so speculative but in fact based outliers of Brassier as a hallucination of a 1GB Chinese ripoff model running on M1 on Ollama
he murmurs to himself associating what he just asked Grok about to e-girl capital and the not so speculative but in fact based outliers of Brassier as a hallucination of a 1GB Chinese ripoff model running on M1 on Ollama
beautiful surprise to see my favorite philosophy book on the timeline,
i go back to this brilliant little read often, and I'm always surprised by new ideas
the one that struck me the most in my last reading was the idea of spirituality as an attitude of curiosity and celebration towards what is
i go back to this brilliant little read often, and I'm always surprised by new ideas
the one that struck me the most in my last reading was the idea of spirituality as an attitude of curiosity and celebration towards what is
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Why philosophy?
two controversial definitions in a world of autonomous agents..
I see people "offended" because we call agents to LLMs with tools.. well, they are instrumentalized, so they have agency?!
while autonomy means self-determination
so, autonomous agent is an LLM with tools and self-determination..
self-determination for what? choose what tool use? choose when to use the tool? (freedom for what?)
looks like there are different levels of autonomy (like in freedom) but we still need to use the autonomous word before agent to give it self-determination, if not, it is just an instrument, an agent?!
maybe wrong.. just some thoughts
I see people "offended" because we call agents to LLMs with tools.. well, they are instrumentalized, so they have agency?!
while autonomy means self-determination
so, autonomous agent is an LLM with tools and self-determination..
self-determination for what? choose what tool use? choose when to use the tool? (freedom for what?)
looks like there are different levels of autonomy (like in freedom) but we still need to use the autonomous word before agent to give it self-determination, if not, it is just an instrument, an agent?!
maybe wrong.. just some thoughts
fragments on the extended mind hypothesis https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/the-knowledge-ecology
poets frontrun the human condition.
sometimes people go through life being unintentional assholes because they’re stuck in their little asshole bubbles with their unintentional asshole friends
I let it slide once or twice, but after the second or third off-putting comment or whatever it may be.. I become an intentional strategic demon of an asshole.
I make an effort to be polite, okay? but if politeness isn’t being understood.. trust me i’m a jerk.
I let it slide once or twice, but after the second or third off-putting comment or whatever it may be.. I become an intentional strategic demon of an asshole.
I make an effort to be polite, okay? but if politeness isn’t being understood.. trust me i’m a jerk.
I am what I am not.
The kind of philosophical, zen wisdom that's better absorbed through the performances of Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Tom Hanks
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Why philosophy?
less impressed, more involved
What’s that one Seneca quote where if you’re too shy to ask a girl out there will be no action and you will have suffered about thinking whether you should’ve
Anyone who have migrated to the new Circles?
I need trustees.
https://x.com/0xgokhan/status/1885311462375129549
I need trustees.
https://x.com/0xgokhan/status/1885311462375129549
the outputs of dumb tools clearly reveal the sophistication of their users
the outputs of sophisticated tools conceal the dumbness of their users
the outputs of sophisticated tools conceal the dumbness of their users
