Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.935

   > towards people whose sole crime is to have an underpaid job that researches the material remains from human history and prehistory. Why? Because we tell the truth about Atlantis, that it never

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2. 02 · blog0.740

   On this second interpretation, the question is: what explains the fact that hard work is a desert base for reward? Others speak in this context of “normative force” (see, for example, Sher 1987, xi). They seem to be concerned with a question about what explains the fact that when someone deserves something, it is obligatory for others to provide it, or good that it be provided. Still others may phrase the question by appeal to concepts of grounding or foundation . They may ask what grounds the fact that those who work hard deserve rewards. Still others write a bit more vaguely about the analys…

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3. 03 · yt0.740

   Why why why, you know, why do archaeologists regard themselves as the as the sole interpreters of the truth about the past for the public? And why do they get their nickers in a twist, you know, when somebody else comes up with a different idea uh about it? Why I I I just don't understand it. Why not welcome these other ideas? by all means criticize them. But the smear techniques, the lies, the innuendos, you know, the straw men, all of that, all of that stuff, that's not straightforward science. That is propaganda which is being used. And and it's still weird to me that that archaeologists fe…

   yt/0ttXsFarmwE-ancient-prophecies-pole-shifts-cosmic-cycles-lost-tech-pyram/transcript.txt

4. 04 · blog0.724

   Defenders of the curial view argue that criminal proceedings are of intrinsic value when defendants (are called to) offer accounts of themselves that they have reason to offer in criminal courts (Gardner 2007, 190–191; Duff 2010c, 15–17). Imagine Alisha stole from Bintu because she was under duress. Imagine Chika intentionally killed Dawn to defend herself or others. Neither of these defendants, we can assume, is justifiably punished. On the punitive view, criminal law’s function does not stand to be fulfilled. On the curial view, things are different. Alisha and Chika both have reason to acco…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/theories-of-criminal-law.md

5. 05 · blog0.721

   Others are “pluralists.” They defend the idea that desert claims fall into different categories, and that each category has its own distinctive sort of justification (see, for example, Feinberg 1970, Sher 1987, and Lamont 1994). We first consider some monist views. Some popular views about the justification of desert claims are based on the idea that such claims can be justified by appeal to considerations about the values of consequences. Sidgwick seems to be thinking of something like this in The Methods of Ethics where he mentions ‘the utilitarian interpretation of Desert.’ He describes thi…

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6. 06 · yt0.721

   So, he said, if this were found if this bone had been found in a recent formation along with other such bones, you would think it looks completely like something that was done by a human. And his reasoning was well, of course we know humans didn't exist during the time of the dinosaurs, so that's proof that all this other evidence is wrong. Now that doesn't really follow logically, if you think about it. If he was prepared to accept it if it had been found in a recent formation as the result of human intelligent work with using stone tools or metal weapons to cut, you know, the flesh of this d…

   yt/pn7JOpDyCKM-michael-cremo-extreme-out-of-place-artifacts-more-forbidden-/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.720

   In 1862, a scientific journal called "The Geologist" published an interesting report. An anatomically modern human skeleton was found 90 feet below the surface of the ground in Macoupin County in the state of Illinois near St. Louis. According to the report, above the skeleton was a thick layer of slate rock that was unbroken. That's an important detail, because it kind of rules out the intrusive burial hypothesis. This report from "Scientific American" tells of a beautiful, metallic-- whoops. I wanted one more detail. According to modern geologists, the layer where the skeleton was found is a…

   yt/DKfGC3P9KoQ-forbidden-archaeology-michael-cremo-talks-at-google/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.719

   So that would be one possible response, to do something like that. And if you feel inspired to do it, then right on. This AUDIENCE: So you talked a lot regarding your critics throwing out the archaeological evidence based on it just being out of their paradigm, filtering it away, and so on. But some of the critics who've truly engaged your work, has it been just that, or do they have valid, scientific reasons why they're refuting your evidence? MICHAEL CREMO: Normally-- I mean, everybody's going to have to make up their own minds about these things. What I try to do in "Forbidden Archeology" w…

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9. 09 · blog0.719

   Suppose he is found guilty in a duly established court of law and is sentenced to ten years in prison. He is governed by the rules of the judicial system whether he likes it or not. To be governed by an institution one must live (or perhaps be a visitor) in the state or society where the institution exists, and one must somehow “fall under” the rules. Those rules must “apply to” the individual. Again, these are tricky sociological notions, not easily spelled out. Some philosophers have said things that suggest that it is possible to justify a desert claim by identifying a currently existing, a…

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10. 10 · blog0.718

    Suppose the institution contains rules that say that slaves who are strong and healthy shall be required to work without pay in the cotton fields. Suppose this individual is strong and healthy. Consider the claim that he deserves to be required to work in the fields without pay in virtue of the fact that he is strong and healthy. AID implies that this desert claim is justified. That is as preposterous as it is offensive. The general point: we must not lose sight of the fundamental difference between entitlement and desert . AID seems to confuse these. It seems to say that you deserve something…

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