The egalitarian ideal of the trash Bosch books “everybody counts or nobody counts” remains undefeated

I don’t understand the argument anyway that someone making more money, on its own, gives moral license to abuse them. We may demand more of the wealthy morally, but I’m not sure why that means anything goes.

Putnam’s single earth thought experiment: the case of margarine

The only sensible notion I can get from it is that for a continuous probability distribution it only makes sense to interact with it by integrating (and so it can be thought of as a functional on the space of measurable sets), but that is not a sign anyone deeply knows probability

I, for one, am feeling ever optimistic about the logic of endless reinvestment towards capital accumulation

Is there any sensible version of what this even could mean?

Really looking forward to this ep - even the extent to which I am not fully on board with the thesis (at present), I am so tired of the dominant ideology that amounts to “lottery winner recommends waking up at 5am to play lottery”

I always thought there is some connection with the different kind of rationality/decision theory one can bring to bear on Newcombe’s paradox - whether one thinks of decisions statistically or decide at the moment that nothing that came before matters in an individual choice

Catholic race science