Erdogan pisses off Putin by returning Mariupol commanders to Ukraine.
My gut tells me that after the Wagner mutiny Erdogan sees Putin as weaker. I suspect he also sees a future where a dominant Turkey with a close NATO ally in Ukraine thoroughly controls the Black Sea region.
When I was a philosophy grad student longtermism hadn't been invented yet. Even now it is, long after I left the field, apparently a fringe area of research. But what I am now reading about it is frankly alarming.
This is an article from a recovered longtermist philosopher. I'll add some quotes and comments below.
Deleting my Reddit comments before deleting my account. I'm tired of painfully stupid bullies and I don't have to hang out on their platforms. It's not like I need this account for any professional reason apart from the information and Q/A and silliness that Reddit offered.
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This is a comment I made on a post in the Expanse subreddit about 9 months ago. Someone there was glad to have read it so I'll put it here in case anyone else might like it as well.
The Post (not mine) was about Amos being a sociopath.
Well, that question assumes that philosophy is something people can avoid doing. And a lot of people think they don't do philosophy.
Let me tell you, everyone does philosophy. They just don't always recognize it as such. They say, No I deal in facts! No, I do science! No, I use logic! No, I <insert whatever>!
Is anything important to you? Do you talk about it how it should be? You're doing philosophy.
But if there's stuff you really need people to avoid touching and you can't necessarily trust everyone who has access to avoid touching it... Maybe you should add some layers or locks or something.
Our society believes in all of these but gets less comfortable as the list goes on.
Each one, however, is linked. It's hard to believe in talent as something inherent to the individual and avoid implying unsavory things about genetic superiority.
The SCOTUS ruling is a fantastic opportunity to reconsider what is generally believed about merit.
1/n Socially liberal elites are reaching a moment of forced decision.
Choose their supposed values or choose their class.
It's only a difficult choice if they feel it's difficult.
For example, recently Microsoft voluntarily recognized a new union of workers at its subsidiary ZeniMax Studios. It's part of a small trend where C-Suite types don't automatically try to crush the souls of their employees.
Merit for purposes of college admission is at most an unverifiable ideal.
At worst, it is a rationalization for enforcing the biased status quo.
Doubt me?
Consider ANY means of objectively measuring merit and ask yourself if what you're measuring is intrinsic to the person rather than opportunity, investment, privilege, luck, etc.
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Top Ukrainian officials are hoping that next week’s NATO leaders’ summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, will be an epic moment — when Ukraine finally receives a “clear signal” that it will eventually join the alliance, anchoring the country in the West’s security infrastructure and sending an unequivocal message to Moscow.
No nation has more reasons to join NATO than Ukraine.