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@gokhan
Defending Civilization by Jean Raspail
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/defending-civilization/Defending Civilization by Jean Raspail
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/defending-civilization/
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@gokhan
Today in "single issue voter" DSA markets
You can buy the Camp of the Saints paperback here:
https://itascabooks.com/products/the-camp-of-the-saints-2
https://x.com/VaubanBooks/status/2046262858904641889?s=20
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@cameron
Everyone wants to talk about AI consciousness as a binary, but nobody wants to talk about human consciousness as a range
https://x.com/hesamation/status/2045181640297578605?s=46
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@gokhan
https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/ebooks/gradient-descent-into-chaotic-happiness/read/#weight-desk
https://crowdfund.seedclub.com/c/cmnublhpu1bz8ry0t6xkyf7tf
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@gokhan
Please donate to crowdfund "Fund My Interactive Experimental Poetry Chatbot"
You can read a local first generative book sample here:
https://gokhanturhan.com/publishing/ebooks/an-essay-concerning-the-inbox/
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@cameron
Building a “Destroy the modern economic contract” machine is actually kind of like firebombing someone’s house really really slowly
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@gokhan
The reason why only a tiny number of people are able to post in this channel is that I am not that incentivized to curate the flow here where majority of posts are spams in nature, or fanatical rants on this or that tribe without a substance.
I do too roast anyone on the timeline but I am really not serious about it and it's most of the time just for fun and many people, at least the masculine brain, gets it.
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@gokhan
your daily reminder that i am the semi technical cofounder you are looking forward to meeting especially if you are liquid and/ or a proper risk taker
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@gokhan
your daily reminder that I am selling gokhan.eth for 1 eth and casting it everyday till I get that 1 eth.
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@yerbearserker
"Compassion is the basis of morality, and its truth is immutable."
~Arthur Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer asked a simple question:
What actually motivates a person to act morally?
He rejected three common answers:
Self interest
Religious reward or punishment
Abstract duty alone
He argued that none of these explain genuine moral action. If you help someone because you benefit, that is strategy. If you help someone because you fear punishment, that is obedience. If you help someone only because a rule says so, that is formalism.
For him, morality required something deeper.
His answer: compassion as the real foundation
Schopenhauer’s claim was that true moral action happens when another person’s suffering becomes meaningful to you directly. Not as a rule. Not as a calculation. Not as reputation management.
Compassion interrupts ego.
In his system:
Self interest = egoism
Malice = cruelty
Compassion = morality
So when he writes that compassion is the basis of morality, he means it literally and structurally. It is not one virtue among many. It is the root from which all moral behavior grows.
What he meant by immutable
Immutable here does not mean socially agreed upon. It means metaphysically grounded.
Schopenhauer believed reality underneath appearances is unified by what he called the Will. Because all beings share this deeper unity, compassion is not invented by culture. It is discovered through insight into that unity.
So his claim is stronger than:
Compassion is good
He is saying:
Compassion is the only stable foundation morality can have, because it reflects something real about the structure of existence itself.
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@gokhan
indeed people will want a Farcaster token. many people are just not making any money nowadays. a few years ago, they got hooked on making easy money because they were just noisy and disposable income by others had to find a niché.
some of them are just too afraid to spend that last 3K USD, too.
the moment the protocol or any client will ship any token, it'll be carnage. it will go to zero in 3 days only to make some volatility rides for a few years thanks to some market making procedures.
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