We dont want fans, we want contemporaries or students.The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. — Oliver Wendell HolmesSomeone just called us a

Full articleWe were a little wrong about "African culture". Why we got it wrong is just as important as why we got it right.Very few know how to crunch large data and get knowledge from it. You can scan enormous

The problem with AI that you did not think about. We were discussing some philosophical concepts about humans being the only creatures to construct the past and future as interactable realities. (More on this later) But a friend searched this

Slavery is wrong because slavery is wrong, not just because we happened to be enslaved or because Europeans profited from itDo you see how this guy discussing morality comes up with the same circumstances that we presented years ago? He

A carpenter on YouTube says he knows how to make cabinets. And his evidence is: "Here is one I made before". He suggests liking and joining his channel because if you follow him, you will get the same results he

You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. -- MatthewNo one gets it 100%, no one

I read Hume, the Greeks, and Kant. Kant might be a K*nt, but when he was not, he had some very deep things to say. I need that knowledge also. The Greeks did not only influence Western Europe, they also

Some of the most heinous crimes in human history for been justified because one group thinks it has "civilization", while claiming the other group lacks it."Civilization" in anthropological terms has a very narrow definition. Even at its most liberal definition,

A limited mind cannot know a limitless universeLong ago, people used fire, but they did not understand what fire was. The fire of those days had the same properties as the fire now: you touch it, you get burnt. Beyond