Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
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Are there countries that aren't part of the West that do not tax people?
The things people come up with! worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/1961…
Some feedback: my eyes squinted and I felt a slight headache immediately upon trying to read that slightly lopsided text.
So... when a woman decides she’d rather work in, say, a leasing office than become a software engineer, that’s because of systematic oppression? Am I understanding you correctly?
For example, many consider the fact that software engineering has less than 50% women evidence that software engineering is somehow biased against them, when in reality, it could be any number of reasons that have nothing to do with "oppression" but just interests, say.
Also, wokesters mistakenly think that phenomena that aren't based on chance, such as sex distribution in a given category of job, would have the same outcome as chance in a "fair" world, and then demand (forced) equal distribution. twitter.com/pmddomingos/st…
RT @pmddomingos:
If you flip a coin six times and get four heads, that doesn't mean the coin is biased against tails. But the AI ethics cro…
^ The screenshot contains an example of the quest for certainty in business, presumably resulting from bad epistemology.
Check out this Jimmy McGill nail salon Office diorama! youtube.com/watch?v=L7_Flj… so cool! By Boylei Hobby Time :)…
Yeah. Or if links can’t be opened in new tabs by holding cmd while clicking on them.
Good idea but for non-technical things I think it's better to just put it on a good old blog where people don't need to know about things such as pull requests, commits etc. to contribute and where they can just post a comment instead.
That's not a half bad idea. I'll see if I have time to put such a list together and if so will post it on my blog.
@BennyChugg @ToKTeacher @DavidDeutschOxf
Many people don’t like fallibility. They want justified, true belief...
Here's a transcript of an older talk by David Deutsch I stumbled upon that you may not have seen before—at leaste I hadn't.
Domingos wasn’t arguing that people shouldn’t be allowed to buy non-GMO products. He was arguing they’re unscientific.
Tune in to San Francisco now and you’ll get a charming man talking on the “Islamic Bulletin” about how rotten children in the area are because the mosques don’t have enough personell.
Just lovely.
RT @ZubyMusic:
Remember to cancel your 1 year trial of communism before it auto-renews.
Been doing that. Sometimes they change the color of the logo and I only realize I bought a non-GMO product when I get home. :(
Ever notice how people who spew these nonsensical ideas have roses in their twitter names?
You should consider that critics of your ideas have addressed the problems you raise:
To wit: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/libertar…
and
I suspect madeofmistake may be referring to internet memes specifically.
will help you round out your views on political economy
A bit condescending, don't you think?
I've skimmed the articles. But I didn't ask for what those thing are. I asked for a specific example you had in mind.
What's an example of a "collective action problem"?
Invert what they're doing: instead of accusing leading politicians of being grandma killers (a lie), accuse them of enslaving people (the truth). Etc.
Is anyone planning to beat the CCP at their own game by creating a large number of bots that post contra-lockdown tweets?
It's great that when you duckduckgo "scientific method" it shows a picture of @DavidDeutschOxf.
But wouldn't it be better if the text next to it were replaced with "the entry you're looking for doesn't exist"? With links to both Popper's and Deutsch's works. https://t.co/zS5ffzNtyS
All regulation agencies can be tempted by large sums of money from industry. Not all need succumb, but many do.
Beyond that, it's a crime to force people to pay for a service they do not want. But that crime is organized and legalized in Germany and most (all?) of Europe, so it's not surprising that most Europeans don't understand Americans who (correctly) oppose legalized theft.
What does the method look like? Can you write it down?
FWIW I think they're both criteria. If an explanation isn't hard to vary it cannot be scientific.
But yes, the hard-to-vary stuff is more than just a criterion. It does give meaning also.
Testability is necessary but not sufficient. Explaining the world well is. See BoI ch. 1.
RT @nixcraft:
Punny: Hi there! I am your server for today! https://t.co/avLXMvilBA
Just don’t host anything on AWS that amazon disagrees with politically or they’ll ban it...
Could it get any more reductionist (and Bayesianist) than this paper? twitter.com/Neuro_Skeptic/…
I put effort into writing a long review for a contractor from your platform. After submitting it, your site said that I had already reviewed him (I hadn't) and redirected me to a different page. My review text is lost. And I can't leave a review now.
@AnneSalzkotten @Elitiker @c_drosten
Das Problem ist eher, dass Kinder gezwungen werden, in die Schule zu gehen.
Das heißt, Kinder würden für die Krankheit ihrer Klassenkameraden bestraft werden.
Hat @c_drosten eigentlich einen Hauch von Verantwortungsgefühl oder Freiheitsverständnis?
Achtung, bald kommt die Berliner Mutation, die ist 100x ansteckender.
New blog post: "Competence First, Incentives Second"
It's also second-handedness. aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/second…
There's also replacing the 'hub' with 'pretty' :) E.g. gitpretty.com/rails/rails
Back in the day, the flagellants whipped themselves harder. Today, people double the masks. Both behaviors refer to specious authorities.
Whatever they can think of to enact a meme more faithfully, they will do:
"Picture a rusty nail and a tetanus shot, respectively." :D
That's different from having one's idea refuted and then asking for ever more refutations in an effort to dodge criticism because one hopes the other party will run out of refutations. It's that kind of dodge I wrote about.
Yeah that's when criticizing an idea to understand it better, which is totally fine. One thinks of other criticisms and wants them addressed too, thereby learning more in the process.
Mit “die” beziehe ich mich auf “die Subjekte”, nicht auf “der Numerus”.
Neither. Sublime Text here. Much better performance than Atom.
RT @DavidDeutschOxf:
Russell blithely assuming that nothing "quite unforeseeable" will occur in the 20th century😅
Using that assumption to…
@Atom2384 @ChipkinLogan @DavidDeutschOxf
All Life is Problem Solving, Conjectures and Refutations, Objective Knowledge are all great imo
RT @DavidDeutschOxf:
New short video thebeginningofinfinity.com/media/irration…
Best feeling when somebody uses the product one has built and the like it.
RT @laasrinadiaa:
An easy way to have a fluid typography(font-size changes depending on the screen size) using only the 'clamp(min, val, ma…
RT @SpaceX:
Announcing the first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth aboard Dragon → spacex.com/updates/inspir… https://t.co/ukLsjFfRjk
No. One needs knowledge. And college isn’t the only way to create that knowledge.
No, it’s 100% reimbursed by people who are locked away if they don’t reimburse you.
It’s about the mind, not the brain. It’s software that allows us to learn languages faster or slower, not hardware.
Yeah exactly, was gonna comment the same thing.
Karl Popper had some answers to that question.
V difficult reading the comments. Use a color scheme with higher color contrast between comment color and background color for better legibility.
What does it mean to get the “last” item from a map or set?
Security guard at Corona detention center catches the virus: who’d have thought? Entire city pays the price.
“Leaders of other states and territories have also been contacted and advised not to allow people to travel into the state.”
Casual violation of freedom of movement. twitter.com/jeffreyatucker…
E.g. if you ask them questions about Z and one says they haven’t thought too much about it (or worse, need not think about it, they just “know”). Or if you criticize Z and one just shrugs it off without offering counter criticisms.
Then that person isn’t taking Z seriously.
AGIs might do it for others or themselves or both.
That she didn’t “function well as a person,” even if true, does not mean she was incompetent at economics.
That doesn’t help if the crawler runs or at least reads JS.
I forget if I have. What does she say in it that you think shows she's incompetent?
For example, I take socialism seriously and reject it.
To be clear, you're claiming that her expertise did not extend to economics, but that that of economists and psychologists does?
No because taking an idea seriously does not mean accepting it on blind faith.
Why call it "rational, benevolent self-interest" instead of just "self-interest"?
That's exactly what Elizabeth Warren has been doing in the context of a wealth tax: twitter.com/ewarren/status…
New blog post: "Taking Ideas Seriously"
In the former case a rollback wouldn't help because one can't roll back reality.
Different AGIs might have backups for different reasons. The main reason I would have them, if I were an AGI, is so that I couldn't die as easily. And yes it'd be a very good idea.
AGIs could use git commits to version their minds and git push to back their minds up to the cloud. They could revert to any previous commit and thereby reinstantiate their minds from the state they were in at that specific commit.