SmoothOperator

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Careful research.

You can't really call it slop just because you disagree with their views and representations of things.

Their stuff is carefully researched and sourced, human crafted and open to critique. Whether they're correct in their assessments or not is of course up for debate, but it's good craftsmanship and they show their work.

Also double slit experiment is not so much a thought experiment as it's an experimental phenomenon that is hard to explain. Also Einsteins thought experiments are actual science, based on reality with actual results...

The double slit experiment was first invented as a thought experiment, and later was built as an actual experiment. It's the same with relativity, first it was thought up, now it's experimentally verified. So the examples from relativity you bring up are also more experimental phenomena than a thought experiments at this point.

I have, I studied these ideas at university. I'm just curious what makes these thought experiments harder than e.g. the double slit experiment, Plato's cave analogy or Rawls' veil of ignorance?

What makes relativity the hardest thought experiment?

For sure, but it's yet to be seen if the bad outweighs the good. For the last several centuries it's been going the right way, so there is good reason to hope that a century from now, things are even better than they are today.

Doesn't mean we shouldn't fight for the good causes, naturally.

Do the technological and social advances not show that we are also at heart a progressive people with a need to care for eachother and create a better future?

By most measures, such as number of humans killed in war or child mortality, human suffering in the modern era is less than it's ever been. In the grand scheme of things, we have made the world a place with much more room for joy and love over the course of human civilisation.

Our constitutional rights ensure that the police must have a good reason to investigate our correspondence. I suppose the issue with well-encrypted messaging for the state is that even with a good reason, the police can't read the correspondence.

Not that I support this nonsense, just saying.

The CPC calls itself communism as in Communist Party of China (CPC). So yeah.

I know it's a tired comparison, but the Democratic Republic of Congo calls itself democratic, but is authoritarian.

North Korea is also officially called the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".

What does that mean for the praxis of democracy?

I'll always prefer ideologies that aim to do well but end up misused for power over ideologies that directly aim to do evil.

Nazism aims to end the "oppression" of the straight Aryan man by destroying Jews, queers and so on.

Communism aims to end the oppression of the worker by ending private property and seizing the means of production.

Even if many or all communist systems end up in violent autocratic tyranny, I'll never equate the two ideologies or their followers.