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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

The following is Chapter Two of the translation and commentary of Plato's Euthydemus, by the fictional author Justus Shepherd. You can find the first few installments here: Foreword by the Editor...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

The Somber Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius

Lord Acton famously wrote in a letter to an Anglican bishop, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” That generalization proves to be tru...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

Buddhism, on Suffering and the Force

There’s an old story in the Buddhist canon about a student who asks his master, “It is terribly hot, how can we escape the heat?” “Go right down into the furnace,” replied the master. “But in the f...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

This is Why You Suck at Trading

Most deaths in the United States are from diseases of abundance – from the consequences of an easy, sedentary life with immediate access to your any and every craving. Yet, if you only ever see the wo...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

Vicious Feedback Loops | Thinking about thinking

You know that sound when you hold a microphone to the speaker it’s hooked up to? That’s feedback. In electronics-speak, they say the input from the mic is its own output from the speaker—the sound of...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

Introducing the Traditionalist School

The idea of progress, that ideas and material culture accumulate in a manner that improves the lives of people across time, is one that is taken for granted. Even those students who have not taken phi...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

The Love of Conquest

The first thing I do each morning when I wake up is go for an all-out heavy workout. No dicking around. No breakfast. Just get up and go. Some mornings it’s a 3-mile run, others it’s weightlifting. I...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

This Post has been Brought to You by the Acorns Investment App

When I decided it was time to start saving for my future, I did the idiot boomer thing and significantly limited my consumption and saved greater portions of my paychecks each week. Once I had a few m...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

The Identity Industrial Complex | the blasé attitude

Last week, I introduced a piece called “The Identity Industrial Complex ”, which laid out the broad themes of Simmel’s essay on the sociology of metropolitan life. Simmel focuses his analysis of mode...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

How Network Analysis Fits into My Research

Network analysis is a part of graph theory and is useful to sociologists for modeling the relationships between social actors. Networks are composed of nodes representing the actors and vectors repres...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

The Identity Industrial Complex | Introducing Simmel's "The Metropolis and Mental Life"

It isn’t just that the winners write history, but that they always portray themselves as the underdogs. History looks to us like one long David and Goliath story. And so will the “Mayor Pete: America’...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

On Retreating into the Wilderness

When someone pursues a goal with a high enough risk for failure, and especially one with high energy costs, their body gives them a little biochemical boost in the form of adrenaline, endorphins, and...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

The First Step to Developing Your Writing Voice - The Audience

I was an assistant to a philosophy professor for 6 years and helped many students clarify and better articulate their arguments. I’ve also helped proofread and edit original work for that professor, i...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

My Small Volume Trading Results this Weekend

It’s been a shaky few days in the crypto market. I noticed last week there was a lot of hubris going around, but the technical charts didn’t show any good opportunities for trading for me. My strategy...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

How I Hedge My Portfolio with Stablecoins

I started January of this year by rounding off $500 from what I earned last year to start a new crypto portfolio. The idea behind it was to be conservative about what went into it and the strategies I...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

Do Male Social Scientists Have "Female Brains"?

Beginning in May 2019, I ran the first iteration of a survey of university professors across the United States about their research interests, their methods, and their individual temperaments. My goal...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

The Election Day Holiday Season

Currently in America, where I am writing from, we are celebrating the holiday season leading up to Election Day. This is a special holiday to us because it’s a cathartic experience in which we act out...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

The Vinegar Tasters

Three men named Alex, Bernard, and Wayne went on vacation in China to celebrate the New Year. They got lost while site seeing one afternoon, and came upon a barrel of vinegar. They decided to rest the...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

Academic Turing Tests | How to fool the experts with nonsense

The Turing test is a set of criteria used to determine if machines can “think”, or exhibit signs of intelligence. If a computer can reliably convince interrogators that they are communicating with ano...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

On Being Stunning and Brave

When we look up at the antics of the celebrities on stage, we often give the more eccentric of the lot the benefit of being “ahead of their time.” The window of what is appropriately ahead of our time...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

Don't Write for Money, Write for Power

This isn’t going to be a guide for turning your passion into yet another soul crushing pursuit for income. By now, you should’ve seen enough bad poetry on WordPress sites to figure out that any idiot...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

Whose Problem is Disinformation Anyway?

Check out this article published by the UK Independent last February. It’s written by an alleged comedian named Liam Evans who criticizes other comedians for telling jokes he thinks should be conside...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

The Social Justice Hash Function

Today, I am going to teach you about the Social Justice Hash Function. A hash function is something that takes input(s), applies a mathematical transformation, and spits out an output, or digest. The...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

Thesis Draft: Preface | An Open Letter to the Intellectuals of Both Parties

[The following is the most recent incomplete draft of a chapter of a thesis I am writing about my own independent research. I've been doing this research for two years now, and I'm doing it completely...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

Classrooms in the Underground

Ian Marcus Corbin's essay “ Losing the Class ” tries to console his colleagues in academia about the disengagement they’re feeling from their students. He describes the scene as he sees it from his si...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

On Narratives, Models, and Theories

Take a moment to think back to your 4 or 5 earliest memories. Have them in mind? Good. Now, is there a common thread that runs through them? A theme? Maybe if you had difficulty finding five memories...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

Two Brief Essays on Mind Viruses

[1] Back in 2012-3, a mind virus called “The Pixar Timeline Theory” spread through the writers’ rooms at Buzzfeed, The Verge, and Screenrant. Patient zero was a writer named Jon Negroni who contracted...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

How the Internet Made Our Cruelty more Sustainable

Spend enough time watching the animal planet and you'll eventually see a chimpanzee bite his rival's testicles off, and you'll say to yourself, "I'm definitely more evolved than that guy." You're not....

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

Organic Bots and Authenticity

For a few years now, human traffic has made less than 50% of total internet traffic. This is annoying for people and companies who run websites trying to attract authentically human traffic to transla...

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@CotyReh · 4 years ago

Scientists are Cracking the Code to Industrial Protein Production

Until now, it has been difficult to control the amount of protein that can be produced from a given gene. We have been using model bacteria organisms as tiny little factories for while not to produce...

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