Friday, March 30, 2012
Economic Metaphor
"Money" is an economic technology created to help humans manage scarcity. It is one of the handful of prehistoric technologies still in use.
It shouldn't be very surprising that managing it with computers to run a global, industrial economy is a disaster. It's like trying to drive down the interstate in a Flintstones-style car by bolting a rocket engine to it.
It shouldn't be very surprising that managing it with computers to run a global, industrial economy is a disaster. It's like trying to drive down the interstate in a Flintstones-style car by bolting a rocket engine to it.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Unspeakable
Just because something is unspeakable doesn't make it more extreme than the alternatives which can be spoken of. It just has to exist between the categories contained within the lingusitic conceptual framework.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Monday, October 11, 2010
Efficacy of Science
Science can tell us how people do live, but not how they should live. Neuroscience can tell us how the brain does function, but not which of our natural human behaviors should not be indulged in.
The idea that "is does not imply ought" cuts both ways. Because rape and slavery exist, it it true that this does not mean they should. However, principled opposition to these and other terrible things also exists, yet the existence of this opposition does not mean it should exist either. This opposition must be justified, and science cannot do this, but only tell us what does or does not in fact occur.
The idea that "is does not imply ought" cuts both ways. Because rape and slavery exist, it it true that this does not mean they should. However, principled opposition to these and other terrible things also exists, yet the existence of this opposition does not mean it should exist either. This opposition must be justified, and science cannot do this, but only tell us what does or does not in fact occur.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
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