Why does Charles Murray's book on human accomplishment have so many models that are wrong?It's like he didn't take a basic course in statistics and tried to use statistics to jerk off the british, french, dutch and danish. He can't even understand that human development is logarithmic not linear. Doesn't even know basic mathematics.
>>25388678How do you know?
>>25388485>>25388665>>25389189
>In a hundred years the invention of the internet will be attributed to some Pajeet or Chang./kek
>>25369338>are you going to say heckin' based Japan is wrongYes, Japs are pretty retarded outside of making good entertainment.
>>25387732>>25387740>>25387743>>25387746kek this commie seething is priceless holy fuck. keep going anon you'll pwn whitey after just one more post
My dad died. What are good books to help cope?
How old are you? How’d he die?
>>25389100Ulysses, unironically
>>25390673I'm 22 and he had a stroke, got a heart attack while he was hospitalized, then died of organ failure.
>>25389100Sorry for your loss anon
>>25390732sorry for your loss anon. My dad died too, but I never found a book for that feel.
I guess I'll make another /phil/ general edition>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts.>Why read philosophy?Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously.>Why study philosophy formally?Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia.Previous thread >>25317851
>>25389349so does every other analytic philosopher trying to legitimize their work, no?
>>25377453Non euclidean geometry exists but I don't understand how it refutes Kant.
>>25389360Given the limited epistemic role that many analytic philosophers assign to a priori reasoning, theres often little recourse but to draw on science or formal methods.
Do I need to learn italian to read Machiavelli or is there a good english translation of his work?
>>25379706AI isn’t going to stop people from learning foundational material, any academy worth a fuck will still require students to work their way from the beginning. AI might make that faster or change how it’s done but it won’t just supplant all need to learn.
I've read this novella not so long ago and discussed it with my friendswe pretty much analyzed every single aspect of the story, the roles of the character and what they convey. I told them that the cat who was unnamed was by far the smartest because she is unknown to the readers and by the rest of the animalsI told my friends that the cat was an opportunistic individual who left the farm right before the executions started and only left after exploiting the system for her benefitsmy friends told me that I'm thinking too deep into it and that Eric just made a mistake by including her saying its just a side character without any contribution to the storythoughts? I still think the cat was smarter than Benjamin himself, at least she got to live a better individualistic life
Why is there a cat in the farm? Aren't golden retrievers in the farm instead?
>>25389596this is literally what I am trying to point out, the cat was present in the farm but pretty much unknown
>>25389596Every farm needs a cat to kill mice in the barn.
>>25389538>Eric
>Bookclubs that take randos and advertise themselfes read slop exclusively>Bookclubs that talk quality don't take randos and don't advertise themselfesWhat do
>>25389418Just enter into them regardless. Most are run by lefties so they don't respect property rights so you respond in kind. My sister runs one but she's a bit of a cunt so I don't care to join plus they don't read interesting stuff like history so I'm not terribly interested.
>>25389418i got invited to a private book club cuz a guy in a cafe saw i was reading the homeric hymns. turned out it was a group from some united church. the young pastor got weird when i brought up heidegger and ezra pound so i decided to stop going.
>>25389899wow
>>25389899This sounds gay and retarded
>>25389418Become my friend
It wasn’t even scary.
I miss when authors used to be real men and not just fags and foids
Ah yes, being an alcoholic and committing suicide - the pinnacle of masculinity.
>>25390476Is it still gay if you do a sick backflip before you hit the ground? Asking for a friend
>>25387473nta but yeah, he really was a coward. Not to disparage him or anything; backing out of the draft at the last minute with a flimsy excuse while everyone else died really fucked him up
>>25387247>real menFriendly reminder that Hemingway committed suicide because he was scared of the CIA.
>>25387414>you must fist fight a lion the way… literally no one in the history of humanity has ever hunted anything…
what does /lit/ think of Shadow of The Torturer? I finished reading it a couple weeks ago, and some of the parts in the story flew over my head, while some were really interesting (I think my favorite part was when Severian was walking and talking with Master Ultan, or when they explored the gardens)
>>25388555Why shouldn't a fantasy novel be held up as a great work of literature?
>>25380761This. Hotheads and contrarians are plain wrong, don't listen to them OP
A key plot point of this book is that aliens are castrating people if they fail a test and passing the test is required for restoring the sun. Nobody brings this up or how cringe it is.
>>25389096>infertility being antithetical to birthing the new sun is cringe
>>25390650You didnt need to save this thread anon.
Today I bought a Warhammer 40k novel.How do I redeem myself?
I played Space marines 2 and kinda like what I see and know nothing about Warhammer. Should I save my soul and not go any further. I got the Eisenhorn books on audio what should I expect?
>>25389335Tell me about it.>>25389353I'm trying.>>25389375You are going to be fine as long as you don't dive into the Horus Heresy and the millennia long melodrama of the Emperor's retarded "children."
>>25389384Why is this shit so expensive? If I wanted the actual physical books I was seeing $40 for a paperback and about the same for audio? I don't want to torrent but they leave me no choice
>>25389433They're used to selling 10 cent pieces of plastic for 60 bucks, that's the only profit margin GW sees as acceptable and warhammer fans will buy anything they're offered
>>25389433>seeing $40 for a paperbackYou must be looking in the wrong place. I buy the novels at Games Workshop Akihabara, or I order them online, and on average they cost less than 10 USD.
Who are you favorite philosophers of science? I'd like to read about what science is, what is the best way of doing it, how does it progress, what are its limitations, what can it uncover, what is its purpose, etc.Thanks!
>>25386441any honest philosopher who lived to see 20th century wil agree "modern science" is dogfood
>>25386520Does Leibniz hold up still?
lol imagine needing science to know that electronics work
>>25390278Maybe if you can figure that out you can also figure out why the batteries in your dildo aren't working
Kuhn and Ian Hacking
I get my dating advices and insights into the female sexuality by reading eroticas/dark romances. They literally write what turns them on the most. All you gotta do is read. And you will stop being a sad incel making daily threads about faggots like Mishima and Pynchon.And you cant judge me.Peace.
>give my honest take knowing I can back it up>anon immediately agrees with me and posts the gayest reddit post imaginableis this a weird reverse psychology tactic to discredit me when I speak the truth? is there a glowie assigned to demoralizing me specifically? I fucking hope not cause that would be low as fuck
>>25389284You are a LARPER or a jackass, either way I have nothing to do with you. Good luck and have a nice day. >>25389285I belong to a highly traditional worldview in which the hierarchy of male competition is based on virtue (literally means "manliness" in Latin) rather than physicality or body count or number of cars or whatever retarded bullshit you losers use to feel valuable. We're living in different universes and are going to talk over one another's heads. I thought you might be a little closer to my perspective but I was mistaken. Let us return to ignoring one another as we have nothing to do with one another. Good luck and have a nice day.
>>25389308What the fuck is wrong with you? Autism doesnt even cover this faggotness.
>>25389325I do not care at all what you think of me. I do not respect your person or mind or evaluations of anything.
>>25387571Thought about this myselfBook recs?
Every page of it was an ordeal. I thank God that it’s finally over.
Like angels, we glide into the all-encompassing light.
>>25385780Angels have dove wings and dove wings aren't made for gliding. God would've given them albatross wings or other sea bird if that were the case. No, angels are flapping those wings all the time with their powerful breast muscles, onward into the big bright
haha very fun thread. very on topicbump
>>25385780"Into" presupposes ontological separation. Tat Tvam Asi, nigga
>>25385780incredible thread. I'm in tears
>>25385780lolother books like this?
2026... I am forgotten...
>>25389794It makes it hard to recommend, but I don't get why it would bother you privately. Definitely serves a purpose in the story and creates a lot of tension.
>>25368598It comes off as if it was written by a closeted first worlder who hasn't experienced actual struggle, hence all the suffering and gay rape in an attempt to make it seem deep and gritty
>>25368671>>25368681fucking kek this guy got one shotted by AI psychosis, no worse than the retards who spend all day convincing themselves that they're visionary mathematicians with it
>>25389807Once again, who cares
>>25390298The first world is the only place where the soul is forced to struggle. No one thinks it's impressive that you hurt your back picking carrots.
I'm genuinely blackpilled by the transience of life and how meaningless any kind of ego striving or biological urges are. I watched a video on youtube about some furniture moving guys who recorded the interior of this lavish home where some old guy had just died. It was pretty unnerving. It reminded me of these people with a ton of money who cover themselves and surround themselves with expensive items. My ex-girlfriend was pretty obsessed with hiking especially mountain climbing. She was particularly attracted to this young guy who broke records climbing various mountains; his whole life seemed dedicated to the act. A sports team manager dedicates a ton of time to win two of two available cups; his team wins one cup so he throws all his energy and time into winning the other cup the following year. It's cool or whatever but it just feels so pointless.Is this the dark night of the soul? It feels like something much calmer and more final.Whenever I become monkeypilled and start feeling frustrated about wanting sex, or travel, or to achieve some goal, or to work less, I almost instantly get the sense that everything is equally worthless and meaningless, and that it's all going to be irrelevant in less than a century. You could say it's sour grapes, which is fine but it still is pointless. Even the good memories I have aren't worth anything. For a few hours each week I fantasize about leaving my job and simply walking aimlessly until my money runs out and then starving to death. It feels like the final frontier of human ingenuity is finding out what happens after death, or oppositely to finally master life extension technology. It would make things a little less pointless, but really it would just prolong the pointlessness of it. It's fine I guess if you enjoy eating food, falling in love, some kind of hobby etc.BFTI (Books For This Issue)?
>>25374899The Gandalf quote is completely salient here. I think it's a frame of reference issue and I battle it every day. It's better to view our time in existence as a gift to be used instead of a precious thing to be saved and coveted.
this
>>25374567You don't need to take all those things you mentioned so seriously.
Keep searching for answer and hope to fuck that something happens in your life that you can get faith in religion.
>>25374567Just stop thinking about it. The deeper your denial of death, the greater your enjoyment of life.Just stop thinking about it is actually the solution to any and all problems. Being a normie is achieving the rejection of all critical thought. Starting to think is the first and final step to becoming miserable.
