- A Theory & Analysis of Wokism ***
This page features a response to "Why We Need to Talk about the Right's Stupidity Problem" by Nathan Cofnas. It goes on to talk about the origins and rise of wokism, the nature of discrimination, the origin of diversity equal representation, racial "oppression", transgender people, etc.
- Responding To Nathan Cofnas's Email Response ***
Wokism is motivated by emotions, mental gymnastics, and propaganda more than anything else. It's absurd to believe that wokism is driven by rationality. The justifications for systemic racism and demographics quotas have irreconcilable contradictions.
- Technology And Civilization **
This page lists the main problems that are caused by increasing or adopting new technologies, as well as some thoughts on AI, peak technology, and speculations about the collapse of modern civilization.
- Climate Change And Global Warming ***
This analysis compares climate change with overpopulation, pollution, and other environmental problems. Climate activism is moralized, ineffective, and counter-productive. To solve environmental issues, we'll need to reduce fossil fuel consumption, switch to nuclear energy, tax natural resources, and reduce population growth.
- Rethinking Democratic Reform ***
Democracy exists to enable societal compromises. My proposal is to overhaul it with a system that emphasizes meritocracy and sortition. This page also analyzes other reforms to democracy, First-Past-The-Post (FPTP), parliaments vs presidencies, different democratic procedures, redrawing state boundaries, and big tent strategy.
- Activism, Memetics, & Optics: Figuring Out What Works ***
This page discusses a theory of activism, obstacles to activism, and what makes for effective or ineffective activism. I strive to describe and analyze as many strategies as possible.
- Cancel Culture ***
Cancel culture can be used for social good or bad. Most people misunderstand cancel culture because they view it as punishment, even though it's more about freedom and association.
- The Case Against Libertarianism and Anarchism ***
Libertarianism and Anarcho-Capitalism are incompatible with human nature, unsustainable, and they fail to understand the nature of freedom and civilization.
- Political Philosophy: Defining An Ideal Government *
Some musings for defining an ideal government's political philosophy and legal code, and the best solutions to the game-theoretic problems that every society must face.
- Thoughts on Geopolitics *
Some musings about geopolitics that follow some basic principles and observed history. All competition ultimately stems from competition for scarce natural resources. Defense, law, and order are the first duties of a state. Geography shapes the battlefield. Peace can only be secured by preparing for war.
- East Asia & Imperialism ***
Under equal environments, East Asians are probably just as capable at imperialism as Europeans. It's not entirely clear why Europe industrialized before East Asia. Some Chinese historians argue that China technically industrialized before Europe during the Song Dynasty.
- The Limits of Space Colonization *
An overview of possible space colonization technologies, with questions and answers about O'Neill Cylinders.
- Linguistic Relativity: How Language Influences Thought ***
An overview of linguistic relativity, gavagai semantics, classical conditioning, selective attention, and examples where language influences thought and vice versa.
- Wikipedia: Mathematical Linguistics **
- Mathematical Methods for Modeling Phonetics & Phonology **
Language phonology can be modeled using set theory, string theory, combinatoritcs, finite-state transducers, and calculus-based statistics. When I have more time, I plan to make a major expansion to this paper to talk about more modern and complex models of phonology.
- The Implications of Adopting a Constructed Universal Auxiliary Language (Worldlang) ***
The effects and implications of adopting an Universal Auxiliary Language (worldlang), and why it would be a better solution than universal translators.
- Heuristic Strategies for Identifying Etymology in English and Various Other Languages **
Heuristics for recognizing pronunciation, spelling, syllables, morphemes, grammar patterns can identify the etymology of a language's lexicon with high accuracy.
- A Better Way To Think About Morphological Typology *
The traditional system for classifying language typology conflates many different morphological characteristics into a 1D or 2D spectrum that does not descriptively characterize language morphology. I explain the more modern approach to classifying language morphology, as well as my own similar system of parameters for classifying language morphology.
- Advantages And Disadvantages To Logographic Writing Systems *
Logographic writing systems draw their advantages from linking meanings to writing, rather than sounds to writing, as a phonetic writing system would. From a linguist's perspective, they both have their strengths, and neither is better than the other.
- The Best Way to Learn Logographic Writing Systems: Heisig's Method *
Heisig's Method is the best way to learn Hanzi and Kanji since it separating the learning process into two phases: memorizing the characters themselves and their semantics, and learning how to pronounce the characters and their various connotations.
- Subjunctive Verb Conjugations In English *
Many foreign language teachers and English speakers are unaware that English has subjunctive verb conjugations, which is one reason why many English speakers struggle with using subjunctive conjugations in foreign languages. This page gives many English examples to help with this.
Hello and welcome to my philosophy website.
My name is Zero Contradictions.
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