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Obligatory Prediction Post
Tonight, I am down with O.P.P., an obligatory post predicting the results of the coming day's election. Sorry for no fancy map graphics, but I'm not so well-versed in the blogging arts that I can...
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Why I don't trust nature.
Of all the objections leveled against the various technologies I advocate for, the one that irritates me the most is non-argument that it's "unnatural". There are reasons why the naturalistic fallacy...
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Evolution and Human Behavior
I just happened upon this somewhat provocative opinion piece from the Economist arguing for the importance of looking to human evolution in crafting social policy that I recommend. (I was unable to...
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A Different Take on Marriage and the State
From the keyboard of the always delightful IOZ:Increasingly, however, I come to the conclusion that it's problematic for the state to confer any additional privileges and rights on anyone just because...
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Omnilibertarianism
"Everything that can be a choice should be."And thus, the great idea of my dissertation is born.I regret that the name has been used on the Internet before (Google gives me something like 3 matches)....
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Reflections on My Idea
People do not sufficiently appreciate it, but individual choice totally changes what it means to be human. Throughout history, the character of human lives has been determined almost entirely by one of...
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Freedom
Freedom is something that I've taken for granted in my life, but I now see it as the most distinctive and valuable feature of humanity. The first freedom should be the freedom to define freedom as you...
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What's new about omnilibertarianism?
This is a question that I definitely need to answer if I wish to be recognized as original. There's a lot of research to do before I can say for sure, but I think I've found at least one thing that's...
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Happiness and Human Nature
For centuries, books like Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, Epictetus' Handbook, and Spinoza's Ethics have attempted to accomplish a most difficult but worthwhile task: provide simple guidelines for...
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BSG: Champion of Transhumanism
SPOILER ALERT!!!Important plot details from most recent episode (aired 02/13/09) of Battlestar Galactica are revealed below. Caveat lector.SPOILER ALERT!!!You have been warned.Now, I'm assuming that...
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Do I have a religion?
About a month or so ago, I had something analogous to a religious experience. For a very brief while, I entertained again some of the beliefs that had been impressed upon me in childhood, in addition...
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Is pain necessary?
In the very last section of his Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche offers an explanation for the origin of ascetic moralities (the italics are Nietzsche's):Except for the ascetic ideal: man, the animal...
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Retraction
It has been an interesting week. I don't know if this is something I can do, but I hereby renounce everything that I've ever written here, before this week. I've said some pretty awful things at times,...
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A Re-evaluation: What is my religion now?
First, I think "religion" is probably the wrong term for it. If a large group of people believe the same thing, it's a religion; a small group, a sect or cult; if an individual has his own distinct set...
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An Open Letter to Transhumanists and Other Tolerant Enlightenment Seekers
My Fellow Transhumanists,First, let me explain what I understand by transhumanism, since you may not think of yourself as a transhumanist. By transhumanism, I mean specifically the idea that it is...
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What happened to me?
It occurs to me that I should try to explain to people the course that events have taken in my life, now that I think I have finally understood them.For a brief period--beginning at the end of January...
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Statement of Principles
Since the major transformation that has taken place in my life, I have finally come to an agreement with my self on a few major ethical principles. I feel so strongly about these principles, that I vow...
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A Human Enhancement Success Story
As I think I've mentioned in recent posts, I am in the process of writing a dissertation, which I then hope to take parts of and modify and make into a popular book. (By popular, I don't mean that I...
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The Omnilibertarian God
Note: this post is about some of my personal spiritual beliefs. I consider them to be part of my philosophy, but they are not essential to the philosophy I call "omnilibertarianism". The latter has...
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Hiatus
Until about mid-May, expect light or no posting.The end of the spring term is coinciding with my preparations for moving back to Pennsylvania, and so I don't expect to have much time to share my...
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