@BaxterWilliams_ I assume the biggest factor would have been tax tables. Top marginal personal tax rates were >90% for parts of that period. Currently the highest personal rate is 37%
"Material interests" really aren't a thing outside of basic survival needs tbh, & even then they're driven by emotional needs, there's no inherent reason to want power/wealth, it's mostly psychological/cultural, the concept of "material interests" is just a desire for objectivity
Okay, so I just realized that indeterminism involves the destruction, not creation, of information. It's the shaving off of possibilities that makes an event irreversible.
I have written another S*bstack post. This time on an anthropic argument against Boltzmann brains being real or at least having large amounts of reality fluid. Link below due to Elon's Tyranny.
Ironically valence enhancement technology might be being undersold by those for whom feeling good is the entire point.
Imagine the implications of suffering no longer being a meaningful threat, of being able to heal any trauma, surpass any aversion.
Suffering is leaded gasoline
Ironically valence enhancement technology might be being undersold by those for whom feeling good is the entire point.
Imagine the implications of suffering no longer being a meaningful threat, of being able to heal any trauma, surpass any aversion.
Suffering is leaded gasoline
many fail to understand this important distinction:
the Christians think that there is both a self and a Self (God).
the Hindus think that there is no self, but that there is a Self (Brahman).
and the Buddhists think that there is neither a self nor a Self.
Philosophy instructors need to contend with the reality that the lesson far too many of our students take away from philosophy is, in effect, that there simply are no objectively correct answers to the most fundamental questions. A top priority should be nipping this in the bud.
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