Lajos Brons / 石橋ラヨス / 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
@rayosu.bsky.social
Philosopher, geographer, blogger (𝐹=𝑚𝑎). Born in the Netherlands, but now a citizen of Japan, living on Sado island. www.lajosbrons.net
(New paper) — Is an "expected consequence" actually a consequence? This paper analyzes why "expected" acts as an operator, not a predicate; and how misinterpreting it can mislead moral philosophy.
#Philosophy #Language #Ethics
doi.org/10.18267/j.e...
#Philosophy #Language #Ethics
doi.org/10.18267/j.e...
On the Semantics and Metaphysics of “Expected”
Lajos Brons
doi.org
September 20, 2026 at 12:17 AM
(New paper) — Is an "expected consequence" actually a consequence? This paper analyzes why "expected" acts as an operator, not a predicate; and how misinterpreting it can mislead moral philosophy.
#Philosophy #Language #Ethics
doi.org/10.18267/j.e...
#Philosophy #Language #Ethics
doi.org/10.18267/j.e...
New blog post. — Why do sincerely caring people end up causing real suffering in the name of victims who don't exist? A look at disgust, moral psychology, and "dyadic completion".
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/manufac...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/manufac...
Manufactured Victims: How Moral Disgust Invents the Harm It Condemns - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
Disgust doesn't track real harm — it invents victims to justify condemnation. Why moral disgust misleads us, and why fixing it takes more than self-help.
www.lajosbrons.net
August 26, 2026 at 10:47 PM
New blog post. — Why do sincerely caring people end up causing real suffering in the name of victims who don't exist? A look at disgust, moral psychology, and "dyadic completion".
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/manufac...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/manufac...
announcing:
The Radical Buddhism Project — a text archive and encyclopedia
radicalbuddhism.net
#buddhism
#socialism
#anarchism
#marxism
The Radical Buddhism Project — a text archive and encyclopedia
radicalbuddhism.net
#buddhism
#socialism
#anarchism
#marxism
The Radical Buddhism Project
radicalbuddhism.net
July 29, 2026 at 6:35 AM
announcing:
The Radical Buddhism Project — a text archive and encyclopedia
radicalbuddhism.net
#buddhism
#socialism
#anarchism
#marxism
The Radical Buddhism Project — a text archive and encyclopedia
radicalbuddhism.net
#buddhism
#socialism
#anarchism
#marxism
New blog post. — Can economic collapse be good for the climate? A modeling project says yes — and that's the problem. When climate and economy shape each other instead of staying fixed, net zero isn't reached through policy or tech — only through collapse.
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/sotar11/
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/sotar11/
Climate Change, Socioeconomic Feedbacks, and Collapse as Mechanism — a Review of the “Stages of the Anthropocene, Revisited” Series - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
A one-person climate-society model finds no peaceful path to net zero — across every realistic scenario, collapse is the mechanism, not policy or technology.
www.lajosbrons.net
July 8, 2026 at 7:55 AM
New blog post. — Can economic collapse be good for the climate? A modeling project says yes — and that's the problem. When climate and economy shape each other instead of staying fixed, net zero isn't reached through policy or tech — only through collapse.
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/sotar11/
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/sotar11/
New blog post. — Radical Buddhism's blind spot is the compliance assumption. Wen Guangxi came closer than anyone to escaping it, and showed why the rest never did.
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/complia...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/complia...
Hunchbacks, Radical Buddhists, and the Magic of Compliance - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
Why radical Buddhism keeps assuming people will simply act on what's right — and how one 1948 Chinese Buddhist reformer saw through the illusion.
www.lajosbrons.net
July 3, 2026 at 6:51 AM
New blog post. — Radical Buddhism's blind spot is the compliance assumption. Wen Guangxi came closer than anyone to escaping it, and showed why the rest never did.
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/complia...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/complia...
Blog post — Most arguments against #AI are actually arguments against capitalism, bad law, or specific misuses of the technology. A few concerns are genuinely AI-specific. The rest are badly targeted and badly targeted arguments produce badly targeted solutions.
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/argumen...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/argumen...
What, precisely, are AI critics arguing against? - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
Most arguments against AI turn out to target something else entirely: bad law, political economy, or specific misuses. Precision about targets matters.
www.lajosbrons.net
May 21, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Blog post — Most arguments against #AI are actually arguments against capitalism, bad law, or specific misuses of the technology. A few concerns are genuinely AI-specific. The rest are badly targeted and badly targeted arguments produce badly targeted solutions.
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/argumen...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/argumen...
New (very long) blog post on "Lokamātra" (this-world-onlyism), a combination of analytic neopragmatism and #buddhism :
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/lokamat...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/lokamat...
Lokamātra — Neopragmatism, Buddhism, and “This World Only” - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
Lokamātra (meaning "this world only") is a combination of analytic neopragmatism and Buddhism focusing on thisworldliness.
www.lajosbrons.net
May 14, 2026 at 6:40 AM
New (very long) blog post on "Lokamātra" (this-world-onlyism), a combination of analytic neopragmatism and #buddhism :
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/lokamat...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/lokamat...
New blog post.
On Hermeneutic Styles in Modern(ist) Buddhisms and Anarchist Buddhology - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
Some remarks on approaches to scripture (or "hermeneutic style") in modernist Buddhism, including an "anarchist" approach.
www.lajosbrons.net
April 15, 2026 at 12:29 AM
New blog post.
New (very short) blog post — Li Guangliang on Buddhism × Marxism in China
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/buddhis...
#buddhism
#marxism
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/buddhis...
#buddhism
#marxism
Li Guangliang on Buddhism × Marxism in China - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
Notes on a Chinese article from 2001 about Chinese Buddhist views on Marxism and Marxist views on Buddhism.
www.lajosbrons.net
March 31, 2026 at 4:59 AM
New (very short) blog post — Li Guangliang on Buddhism × Marxism in China
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/buddhis...
#buddhism
#marxism
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/buddhis...
#buddhism
#marxism
So Bluesky is funded by crypto and other dubious big business interests. May be time to leave, then, I suppose...
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web - Bluesky
In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto. Since our Series A, we've grown from 13 million to over 43 million global users.
bsky.social
March 21, 2026 at 2:34 AM
So Bluesky is funded by crypto and other dubious big business interests. May be time to leave, then, I suppose...
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
New blog post. — A response (sort of) to Bill McKibben's "Here Comes the Sun" (2025).
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/kalpa-o...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/kalpa-o...
滅劫始也終及朗眼 - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
McKibben argues in his 2025 book that we have a final chance to save the planet, but grasping that chance will require violence.
www.lajosbrons.net
February 28, 2026 at 7:50 AM
New blog post. — A response (sort of) to Bill McKibben's "Here Comes the Sun" (2025).
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/kalpa-o...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/kalpa-o...
Thesis: Any Western Zen "Buddhist" translation in which the term "true self" appears is a deceptive mistranslation.
Corollary: Western Zen is a load of crap.
Corollary: Western Zen is a load of crap.
February 23, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Thesis: Any Western Zen "Buddhist" translation in which the term "true self" appears is a deceptive mistranslation.
Corollary: Western Zen is a load of crap.
Corollary: Western Zen is a load of crap.
New blog post — Cost-Benefit Analysis, Climate Policy, and the Parasite Class
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/cba-and...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/cba-and...
Cost-Benefit Analysis, Climate Policy, and the Parasite Class - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
Cost-benefit analysis explains why the parasite class (i.e., the rich) obstructs climate policy and why climate action doesn't work.
www.lajosbrons.net
February 4, 2026 at 5:25 AM
New blog post — Cost-Benefit Analysis, Climate Policy, and the Parasite Class
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/cba-and...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/cba-and...
New blog post — On Cultural Bias and Ideology in Western Buddhism and Buddhist Modernism
#buddhism
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/on-cult...
#buddhism
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/on-cult...
On Cultural Bias and Ideology in Western Buddhism and Buddhist Modernism - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
When he was approximately fifteen years old, Tominaga Nakamoto 富永仲基 (1715–1746) was expelled from the merchant academy in Ōsaka, which his father had enrolled him in, for writing an essay that was cri...
www.lajosbrons.net
December 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
New blog post — On Cultural Bias and Ideology in Western Buddhism and Buddhist Modernism
#buddhism
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/on-cult...
#buddhism
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/on-cult...
Reposted by Lajos Brons / 石橋ラヨス / 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
Accountability
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Accountability
New blog post — (Post-) Buddhism without Rebirth
It is sometimes assumed that removing rebirth and karma from #Buddhism is non-problematic, but that is a mistake. It is far from easy. This article mainly discusses what the Four Noble Truths without rebirth and karma could be like.
It is sometimes assumed that removing rebirth and karma from #Buddhism is non-problematic, but that is a mistake. It is far from easy. This article mainly discusses what the Four Noble Truths without rebirth and karma could be like.
(Post-) Buddhism without Rebirth - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
This article attempts to reconstruct the Four Noble Truths in a hypothetical Buddhism without rebirth and karma.
www.lajosbrons.net
July 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
New blog post — (Post-) Buddhism without Rebirth
It is sometimes assumed that removing rebirth and karma from #Buddhism is non-problematic, but that is a mistake. It is far from easy. This article mainly discusses what the Four Noble Truths without rebirth and karma could be like.
It is sometimes assumed that removing rebirth and karma from #Buddhism is non-problematic, but that is a mistake. It is far from easy. This article mainly discusses what the Four Noble Truths without rebirth and karma could be like.
New Blog Post — On “Pessimism” and “Optimism” about Climate Change; and on SRM as a “Cheap Fix”.
#ClimateChange
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/pessimi...
#ClimateChange
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/pessimi...
On “Pessimism” and “Optimism” about Climate Change; and on SRM as a “Cheap Fix” - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
Let’s imagine the most optimistic climate change scenario for a century from now, without going completely bonkers. To do that, let’s first split up greenhouse gas emissions (CO₂-equivalent or “CO₂e”)...
www.lajosbrons.net
May 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
New Blog Post — On “Pessimism” and “Optimism” about Climate Change; and on SRM as a “Cheap Fix”.
#ClimateChange
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/pessimi...
#ClimateChange
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/pessimi...
New Blog Post — A discussion of some suggestions by Buddhist scholar Yang Huinan in a 1990 interview: the state as Bodhisattva; and why liberation must be collective.
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/univers...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/univers...
Universal Liberation - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
In an interview in 1990, Buddhist scholar Yang Huinan advocated "organicistic universal liberation", which (implicitly) puts the state in the Bodhisattva role and emphasizes that we are social beings.
www.lajosbrons.net
April 3, 2025 at 5:20 AM
New Blog Post — A discussion of some suggestions by Buddhist scholar Yang Huinan in a 1990 interview: the state as Bodhisattva; and why liberation must be collective.
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/univers...
www.lajosbrons.net/blog/univers...
Uploaded a formatted PDF of "The Cluelessness of Longtermism".
works.hcommons.org/records/09jz...
works.hcommons.org/records/09jz...
The Cluelessness of Longtermism
According to longtermism, far-future utility (potentially) far outweighs near-future utility, and therefore, we should prioritize far-future consequences of our actions and policies. The idea depends ...
works.hcommons.org
February 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Uploaded a formatted PDF of "The Cluelessness of Longtermism".
works.hcommons.org/records/09jz...
works.hcommons.org/records/09jz...
Carbon-neutrality is dead. So, now what? - 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
After carbon-neutrality was declared an official goal in the 2015 Paris Agreement it became fashionable for governments and corporations to declare their intention to become carbon neutral by 2050 or ...
www.lajosbrons.net
February 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Reposted by Lajos Brons / 石橋ラヨス / 𝐹=𝑚𝑎
Health Insurance Trolley
existentialcomics.com/comic/582
existentialcomics.com/comic/582
December 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Health Insurance Trolley
existentialcomics.com/comic/582
existentialcomics.com/comic/582