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Great article! I've bookmarked it and will be sending it to friends, especially those I've always considered monkeys. I especially liked the bit about sympathy, how the mere application of random facts about another human being instantly draws them closer to your 'monkeysphere' and, thus, tugs on sy...

Ah, but our conceptual understanding of cause and effect only applies within the framework of a timeline -- cause comes before effect, and effect comes after cause. The event that began our universe ('First Event,' if you will, to parallel First Cause) is also, many theorize (including Hawking and P...

You'd be right, if I wasn't a naturalist. I'm more on Einstein's page with regard to quantum theory than Hawking's -- I don't think that quantum events are truly random and truly causeless. I think there exists some causal factor that we do not understand. From this, it would follow that all actions...

Sorry Joe, I missed your previous post: I believe that capacity to destroy comes peer with the capacity to protect. Some centuries ago, people believe there was no protection against the first guns - and now, there is no protection against nuclear bombs. But in the Middle Ages, there also was no wea...

Hmm, this has interesting repercussions on objectivist theory, too -- how can one relate morality to productivity when mankind becomes less and less capable of being productive in comparison with technological super-machines? Objectivism, as I see it, works when it's man vs. man. But when it becomes...

I liked your essay. This should interest you http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html Vernor Vinge on the singularity, similar concept to yours. I don't know if I should be pleased that someone else came up with the same idea I did, or irritated that my essay had already been writ...

Ahh, I see. Yes, I was indeed more familiar with the scientific definition (hence my confusion). You've made me revisit my philosophical leanings, though, because my scientific beliefs and my philosophical ones aren't in synch. Scientifically, I think all effects have a cause, and all causes are mat...

Since when did the bible or the Christian or Jewish religions ever start advocating slavery and the degredation of an entire race. Uh, do I need to bring up the relevant biblical passages? Jesus himself was to take the Assyrians to the sword, and there are passages explaining precisely how much the...

This is an essay I was halfway through. Finally having a forum on which to post it, this site has inspired me to finish it. Let me know what you think :) THE INTELLIGENCE REVOLUTION "There has been no significant change in human DNA in the last ten thousand years, but it is likely that we will ...

Objectivism rejects the mind-body dichotomy, holding that the mind and body are an integrated whole, neither one of which can exist without the other, and neither of which can be interchanged between persons. Objectivism therefore rejects not only theism and idealism but also materialism, as well a...

EVE VAULT (the IGN website). They have a number of newbie guides written for (or originally displayed on) this website. I thought I might be able to find even more here, and the rest is history.

I've just begun my adventures in EVE, and came across this corporation while combing the internet for 'newbie guides.' I've been playing a number of text-base space economic games (ATS: Among The Stars, if anyone's heard of that), and pretty much wanted to become the interstellar trader-slash-indust...