Learning language as a way of learning culture. German
Uighur witnesses getting threats from China. Accusing them of lying and slandering them.
Dont really know if anything is going to be done. I don’t know what can be done
”The Chinese embassy in London told the BBC…it was reasonable to publicise private medical
records as evidence.”
David Lynch talking about the interplay of picture sound and thought unique to cinema.
Listening to Tyler Cowen on Tim Ferris.
Its interesting to think about the effects of what we do now on the billions and possibly trillions people in the future. Reading articles on the effective altruism forum.
”Our care-o-meters are broken. They don’t work on large numbers. Nobody has one capable of
faithfully representing the scope of the world’s problems. But the fact that you
can’t feel the caring doesn’t mean that you can’t do the caring.”
The problems are too large to care deeply. Scope insensitvity.
Peter Singer writes about the moral obligations we have with the interconnectedness of the moral
world and the industrialisation of production. Its not something dealt with in the past. And I can
see how a mentality shift from the way we looked at things in the past might be needed.