[ExI] About bullet-swallowing

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Thu May 22 17:57:18 UTC 2008


2008/5/21 Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>:

> ### Indeed. I was wondering what else is a part of the
> libertarian-many-worlder package. We already have atheism,
> evolutionism, cryonics, and I think that the smart and greedy response
> to the Newcomb's paradox should qualify (I mean, not opening the extra
> box). Any other ideas?

I really think it's a bad idea to mix politics with science. Science
is about the way the world actually is. Politics, ethics and so on is
about values. You can't get an ought from an is, and if you try, it
makes you look like a crackpot.




-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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