Arts & Humanities

selling AI-generated art

Priority request: … virtually anyone can generate "their own" art using free software. The issue is, AI can only copy from existing pieces, so it's … seen as somewhat disingenuous, given that it takes little to no effort on the part of the "artist".

fatalism

Included in this is the belief that all events are decided by fate and are outside human control, hence humans have no power to influence the future or indeed the outcome of their own thoughts and actions -- wikipedia. Priority request.

relativism

"Such an outlook is quite congenial to an individualist ethic, wherein each individual is faced with his own truth, different from the truth of others. Taken to its extreme consequences, this individualism leads to a denial of the very idea of human nature" - Pope John Paul II.

natural law

Request: a theory in ethics and philosophy that says that human beings possess intrinsic values that govern their reasoning and behavior.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell

"one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century. This terrifying dystopia, which he created in a time of great social and political unrest, remains acutely relevant and influential to this day" -- amazon.

stoicism

"a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world" --wikipedia

communism

"political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society" -- britannica.com.

analytic idealism

"a metaphysical framework proposed by philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, which posits that consciousness is the fundamental, ontological primitive, and that the entire universe is a projection of an indivisible, instinctive consciousness" -- Brave AI.

Hermann Hesse

"His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality" -- wikipedia.

Leo Tolstoy

Priority request. "regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909" -- wikipedia.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell

Priority request. The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the frustrating path of contemporary life -- goodreads.

nihilism

Request: Doc had a few different calibrations over the years, I think I saw 60, 50, 120, etc. Curious about the ADAP result for the "nothing matters" philosophy.

Logically Fallacious, by Bo Bennett

"This book is a crash course, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which loosely defined, are simply errors in reasoning."

amor fati ("love of fate" philosophy)

"The world around you, it is what it is. The events that happen, they are what they are. The people in your life, they’ll do what they do. Accept them. Understand them. Empathize with them" -- dailystoic.com.

"poisoning the well"

"To commit a preemptive ad hominem (abusive) attack against an opponent. That is, to prime the audience with adverse information about the opponent from the start, in an attempt to make your claim more acceptable or discount the credibility of your opponent’s claim" -- logicallyfallacious.com.