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Thursday, May 11, 2023

[00:08:20] superkuh/rizon Praise the sun. It's clearly most worthy. http://suntoday.lmsal.com/sdomedia/SunInTime/mostrecent/f0171.jpg

[00:09:08] superkuh/rizon Radiation is great.

[00:09:15] superkuh/rizon Just go easy on the ionizing bits.

[05:27:37] superkuh/rizon That snake looks like a stephan wolfram book cover.

[05:29:32] superkuh/rizon https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/img/a-new-kind-of-science-cover.png

[23:06:44] superkuh/rizon These days the number of libertarians who are cunts does make it hard to tell. But I think there's still some decent ideology there.

[23:11:04] superkuh/rizon Libertarian ideals are mostly based of Isiah Berlin's "Two Concepts of Liberty" in which the differentiation between being prevented from doing something (negative liberty) and being able to do something because you have the resources to do so (positive liberty) is stressed. Libertarians are all about negative liberty and concentrating on not being prevented from doing things that don't dir

[23:11:04] superkuh/rizon legit enough, concentrate on positive liberty, which is about making sure everyone as the resources necessary to achieve an outcome.

[23:12:33] superkuh/rizon MatCat, yeah, that's negative liberty.

[23:14:39] superkuh/rizon MatCat, that is certainly now how the meaning was interpreted back in the 1950s when it informed a good deal of US international policy.

[23:14:51] superkuh/rizon But sure, project backwards whatever warped modern framing you want.

[23:15:33] superkuh/rizon If some idiot is going to think it's bad because it's negative then they probably aren't going to be reading political philosophy essays. Although, here we are...

[23:16:04] superkuh/rizon I think internal consistency and clarity matters more here than potential "optics".

[23:19:32] superkuh/rizon In this specific case I can say without worry that you are projecting. Isaiah Berlin was not trying to make the concept of negative liberty "bad" since that was the type of governance he advised.

[23:19:46] superkuh/rizon But I guess that's using words as weapons again.

[23:23:19] superkuh/rizon Ok.

[23:26:53] superkuh/rizon I'm surprised but it's plausible enough.

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