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Top posts this week

The 10 highest-scored posts from the last 7 days — ranking by real score over a week naturally filters out posts that got removed shortly after posting.

PostScorePosted
A lot of Machiavelli’s advice is simply — and intentionally — bad. As a discerning reader will notice, Machiavelli often recommends stupidly heedless courses of action likely to get one killed, mostly to weed out the idiots and pretenders.12123d ago
Hyena Ethics: When Harming Others Feels Righteous and Pleasing634d ago
The Value of Mountaineering432d ago
Craig on finitism and presentism335d ago
Philosophy in an Age of Political Change327d ago
Chatbots and the sources of human learning202d ago
From Quantum Time Loops to the Philosophy of Mind: Testing the Physical Church-Turing Thesis and Gödel’s Modal Argument: A counterfactual challenge to scientific positivism (Documentary)124d ago
Epistemology and Large Language Models43d ago
Telephonia Maxima27d ago
Peter Hongler (professor of tax law, St. Gallen, Switzerland) on why taxation is coercion, but justified coercion23d ago

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