It's Meta Time #2: Discussing metaethics on TikTok

[@GrimAngel01100]

This is great, this is how you start getting a larger following on KZbin. Hope to see you with tons of subs in the future 👍👍

[@cpt.kimintuitiondemon]

finally live on a godly hour ;-)

[@realSAPERE_AUDE]

I’m sorry that I don’t have any suggestions for how to make it better but the audio in these seems really harsh for some reason. It’s like there’s way too much lows and also a really bad hiss on every “s” - also seems like there’s a sort of weird thing where it’s getting slightly louder and quieter often. My best guess is there’s maybe some sort of noise cancelling built in to TikTok that’s doing something weird 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@lanceindependent]

Could be that I was using different headphones and they have a mic.

[@realSAPERE_AUDE]

@ when you listen to it, does a hiss stick out?

[@real_pattern]

ok so as someone who's read all of sapolsky's books and some of his academic work, it's a ridiculous criticism that he doesn't offer definitions. he does offer operational definitions and accurate representations of the pro-free-will stances he argues against, mostly using empirical research. he's a primatologist and an endocrinologist first with a knack for writing and teaching in an engaging style, and this comes handy in his pop-sci books, which are his only books. most of the time, he doesn't write and/or argue like joe schmid or greg caruso or derk pereboom, and he emphasizes that reading some relevant anglophone analytic philosophy was difficult for him. regardless, he is explicitly fallibilist in the book about free will, offers plenty of clear and thorough abductive inference style argumentation, critically uses plenty of evidence from multiple empirical disciplines, and includes excellent introductory physics, math & neuroscience primers in the topics which are most relevant for assessing rival free will accounts. it's true that it's not the book which exclusively makes a series of analytical arguments and/or maps out the conceptual space of the debate. those books already exist, written by eg. caruso, pereboom and several others. this is just a top notch pop-sci/sci-com book.

[@realSAPERE_AUDE]

Would you mind explaining what sorts of things you understood Lance to be claiming about Sapolsky?

[@real_pattern]

@realSAPERE_AUDE he was responding to a tiktok comment that made claims.