Philosophers have small constituencies. It’s our constituencies that have large constituencies. We don’t, and can’t, write for the masses.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-16 07:16:14 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/710001713927815168
Form: Aphorism
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Incentives ar enough. The problem is not art but theatre and movie
Incentives ar enough. The problem is not art but theatre and movie.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-16 04:38:00 UTC
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Did you know that Ridicule is a form of lying? It’s an ad hominem
Did you know that Ridicule is a form of lying? It’s an ad hominem.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-16 04:05:00 UTC
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Patents as off-book investment in high risk invention are a discreet tool in tho
Patents as off-book investment in high risk invention are a discreet tool in those cases where the market won’t do. Not a general strategy.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-16 03:53:00 UTC
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Copyright protection has financed immorality. Creative commons protects creativi
Copyright protection has financed immorality. Creative commons protects creativity enough. Copyright must end. And with it decadent arts.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-16 03:44:00 UTC
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Imagine the market for entertainment if copyrights were eliminated: Labors of lo
Imagine the market for entertainment if copyrights were eliminated: Labors of love would still be produced. Profiting via degeneracy wouldnt
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-16 03:43:00 UTC
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Creative Commons provides a moral constraint against profiting from the producti
Creative Commons provides a moral constraint against profiting from the production of others. Copyright OTOH is not a moral prohibition.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-16 03:41:00 UTC
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We are very good at killing. We domesticated ourselves, man, and much of nature
We are very good at killing. We domesticated ourselves, man, and much of nature with our violence. Violence is a good when put to good use.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-16 03:37:00 UTC
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We conquered Babylon with reason. Conquered mysticism with science. And will con
We conquered Babylon with reason. Conquered mysticism with science. And will conquer pseudoscience with Truth. An opportunity, not an end.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-16 03:35:00 UTC
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The 19th-20th centuries tried a new religion of pseudoscience in an attempt to r
The 19th-20th centuries tried a new religion of pseudoscience in an attempt to repeat our conquest by mysticism during the ancient era.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-16 03:33:00 UTC