(Part 2) Top products from r/IntellectualDarkWeb
We found 21 product mentions on r/IntellectualDarkWeb. We ranked the 54 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
22. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Great product!
23. Darwin among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
24. The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
25. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Oxford University Press
27. Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
28. Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
29. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
The Righteous Mind Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
30. The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Great product!
31. Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society Hardcover – March 26, 2019
32. The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
W. W. Norton & Company
33. How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
34. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Basic Books AZ
35. The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones-Confronting A New Age of Threat
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Basic Books AZ
37. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
38. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Steven Pinker shares this article that challenges some of Peterson's assumptions.
An excerpt:
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>Dostoevsky Distraction — Abandon Judeo-Christianity at your peril:
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>“Crime and Punishment is the best investigation, I know, of what happens if you take the notion that there’s nothing divine about the individual seriously.”
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>Deconstruction #1 — Jordan repeatedly cites the character Raskolnikov as being the poster child for what happens when a person gives up a belief in the divinity of other humans; or, as he and Dostoevsky define it, an atheist. Except, and as a psychologist, he knows that someone who determines other people have no intrinsic value “is the psychopath’s viewpoint.” That he conflates atheism with psychopathy is disingenuous, intellectually dishonest, and professionally irresponsible.
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>Deconstruction #2 — Like Jordan, Dostoevsky was a committed Christian who viewed the abandonment of Judeo-Christian values as an ill omen, and sounded the warning. However, Jordan omitted the inconvenient truth that his literary hero was an avowed Christian socialist who proclaimed: “If everyone were actively Christian, not a single social question would come up.”
Moral Atheist Mystification — If you act in a moral way, you’re acting out religious values:
>“As I said at the beginning, the atheist types act out a religious structure.”
Deconstruction #1 — As pointed out in the Deuteronomistic Paradigm, moral values preceded their codification in religious texts, and in the Dostoevsky Distraction, that Jordan has his own, unique, definition of what atheist means, it is irresponsible for Jordan to fuel the flawed perception that atheists are immoral.
Deconstruction #2 — Despite Jordan’s ominous warnings that leaving religion behind is bad for society, there is a clear correlation between countries with increasingly secular tendencies and the happiness of its citizens.
Deconstruction #3 — Again, also despite Jordan’s warning of putting the Judeo-Christian traditions out to pasture, is the idea that atheists are calling for anarchy and immoral behaviour. In conjunction with this perspective, is Jordan’s wholesale ignoring of the immoral acts listed in the Bible (drowning the planet, Abraham’s willingness to murder his child, the Passover slaughter of innocent Egyptians to make a point, Job, etc.); and the fact that most parishioners do not read these stories metaphorically, as Jordan claims religious passages should be understood — not literally, but figuratively — for the morals of the story.
Deconstruction #4 — Jordan’s obsession with the nihilism of Nietzsche is unwarranted, and, indeed, bordering on Chicken Little; especially in light of the facts of deconstruction #2.
It appears contradictory, to me anyway, that if the values contained within the Judeo-Christian tradition preceded the tradition (part 4), then why should Jordan be worried if people are simply abandoning the vehicle which, successfully, conveyed the values? The values are the important factor, the ones that emerged from the unconscious, not the transmission mechanism. “Adamant anti-religious thinkers” are not advocating that we abandon morality, or “our immersement in the underlying dream,” so the values themselves will remain intact. Another Canadian psychologist, Steven Pinker, makes this point in Enlightenment Now:
>“If the positive contributions of religious institutions come from their role as humanistic associations in civil society, then we would expect those benefits not to be tied to theistic belief, and that is indeed the case.”
Steven, as the subtitle of the book alludes, made “The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress,” that society is not in any danger — contrary to Jordan’s dire warnings — from increasing secularization:
>“Evolution helps explain another foundation of secular morality: our capacity for sympathy (or, as the Enlightenment writers variously referred to it, benevolence, pity, imagination, or commiseration). Even if a rational agent deduces that it’s in everyone’s long-term interests to be moral, it’s hard to imagine him sticking his neck out to make a sacrifice for another’s benefit unless something gives him a nudge. The nudge needn’t come from an angel on one shoulder; evolutionary psychology explains how it comes from the emotions that make us social animals…Evolution thus selects for the moral sentiments: sympathy, trust, gratitude, guilt, shame, forgiveness, and righteous anger. With sympathy installed in our psychological makeup, it can be expanded by reason and experience to encompass all sentient beings…
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>A viable moral philosophy for a cosmopolitan world cannot be constructed from layers of intricate argumentation or rest on deep metaphysical or religious convictions. It must draw on simple, transparent principles that everyone can understand and agree upon. The ideal of human flourishing — that it’s good for people to lead long, healthy, happy, rich, and stimulating lives — is just such a principle, since it’s based on nothing more (and nothing less) than our common humanity.
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>History confirms that when diverse cultures have to find common ground, they converge toward humanism.”
The book itself it a hack-job hit piece on men, and Ben Sixsmith's review – which is what's linked – is a great takedown of Plank's "work."
If anyone is interested in further reading regarding actual masculinity and what men face today, here's a small reading list:
I may even make a separate post for this because it's very important to me. I am in the middle of researching and writing a book that, I hope, does what Plank's drivel claimed to do. The materials here are just a few selections I've come across in my research. Maybe I can elaborate more on my work if I make a more comprehensive 'recommended reading' post re: masculinity. I'd love to see more discussion around this as I believe it's exactly the kind of thing to tackle in a community like this.
Wow! No one has mentioned premier honor philosopher Tamler Sommers! He wrote a book called why honor matters https://www.amazon.com/Why-Honor-Matters-Tamler-Sommers/dp/0465098878
His mom Christina hoff sommers is an IDW member and I’ve always thought tamler should be a member as well. He has a great podcast on moral psychology and philosophy called very bad wizards, he’s had on sam Harris and Paul bloom frequently:
https://verybadwizards.fireside.fm
Great podcast checkout out and check out the subreddit r/verybadwizards
Honor takes a lot of explaining but tamlers always talking about. Or asking him u/tamler
Honestly best podcast I’ve listened to, takes shots at Making Sense with Sam Harris.
Submission statement: Cal is an academic and bestselling author of many books on productivity, focus, and effective study. This post talks about the effectiveness of "Indie Social Media" to achieve a completely different objective than other alternative social media failures that try to be the next Facebook or Twitter. The IDW is name checked as well.
> If you’re deeply committed to the Intellectual Dark Web, for example, then Thinkspot will probably return you much more value than Instagram or Twitter, even though its audience size is a minuscule fraction of these giants.
If you're not familiar with the author, I highly recommend his books Deep Work and Digital Minimalism.
I took a semester of an introductory course of Game Theory. We followed the textbook An Introduction to Game Theory by Osborne. The book is great for a first dive into the subject, has ample examples, easy explanations, and is not too mathematically involved. Don't trust the online ratings; this is a very clear-cut book that covers a lot of material.
We also had Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by Neumann and Morgenstern, the founders of Game Theory, as a reference. It covers the motivations for game theory, explains basic concepts (like utility) which are taken for granted, and also explains economic behavior using Game Theory. It's a 600-page monster.
Submission statement:
Amit Varma interviews Tyler Cowen. They talk about Cowen’s book, Stubborn Attachments, and related topics. (Coleman Hughes reviews Stubborn Attachments here.)
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Strategy-Theorists-Success-Business/dp/0393337170
I read this. Haven't read much into Game Theory besides this book, but it's probably a more general overview of Game Theory with real life examples.