Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
My blog about philosophy, coding, and anything else that interests me.
Tweets
An archive of my tweets and retweets through . They may be formatted slightly differently than on Twitter. API access has since gotten prohibitively expensive – I don't know whether or when I'll be able to update this archive.
But in case I will, you can subscribe via RSS – without a Twitter account. Rationale
"[T]he Government are due to relax foreign travel restrictions, [enabling] Brits to visit ‘green list’ countries without having to take two Covid tests on return"
Like when parents tell their kids: You've been good, you may watch these three movies w/o doing your homework first. twitter.com/toadmeister/st…
Dunno, but people who claim anarchy could never work say so partly because they think conflict resolution with competing private abitrators would be impossible — not that it would be impractical.
What people need is a willingness to discuss, to solve problems together.
If they don’t have that, a common legal system won’t help them much either.
The myth that people need a common legal system provided by a legal monopoly to resolve conflicts is a special case of Popper’s myth of the framework.
“Biodiversity provides food, water and shelter”
No, people do. twitter.com/royalsociety/s…
The latter alone is said to have caused 25 million deaths in a single year according to mphonline.org/worst-pandemic….
Apart from the death count, we’re also much better able to deal with pandemics today because we have more wealth and knowledge. You’re discounting that progress.
See the quote in my previous tweet? I’m happy for the technological progress and all, but surely you’ll agree that this isn’t the world’s most dangerous pandemic to date? There has been AIDS, various flus, cholera, the Black Death, bubonic plague...
So you never use callbacks or blocks or lambdas or anonymous functions in your OOP code?
RT @marinamaral2:
Prohibition agents dump liquor out of a raided building, 1929. https://t.co/iqBzMnKfm0
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Goes without saying. We should also have checkpoints in the streets to limit unnecessary movement of unvaccinated peop…
Those two approaches are orthogonal. You can mix and match.
RT @patrickc:
🎤💸 We're very pleased to be working with @joinClubhouse to help enable frictionless creator payments: joinclubhouse.com/introducing-pa….
You go down a rabbit hole. Then you find another rabbit hole inside the rabbit hole. You go down it, too. You keep going down until you hit a wall. Then you climb back out.
Eric Weinstein's long-awaited paper on geometric unity is finally here.
I wrote a comprehensive guide with the most important points so you don't need to read all 69 pages of it:
So a computer would need to be injected with dopamine to be creative, according to this renowned neuroscientist? twitter.com/connectedregio…
@ReachChristofer @DavidDeutschOxf @KyleWil69587234
“so meditation is [...] thinking/guessing about what might be going on in the mind”
Isn’t that just epistemology?
What a bunch of clowns making fools of themselves. twitter.com/gerda_alice/st…
How about “altruistic” and “parasitic”? twitter.com/angela4LNCChai…
RT @Nailfreak1:
So, ich starte mal das illegale Treffen mit den Nachbarn. 😉 Bis später.🥂🍻
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Happy Pandemic to those of my followers who are following the covid religion this year. Which I hope is all of you.
I…
RT @reasonisfun:
#HPMOR by @ESYudkowsky shows the horror of forcing irrationalities on your children.
Coercing your child to adopt any…
RT @ThomasEWoods:
Here's what they didn't want you to hear tomwoods.com/ep-1865-the-tw…
No, because you could always click “inspect element” and copy from the DOM directly.
That’s also why no “pay to copy/paste” would ever be successful. t.co/1F9rMsJdbV
RT @angela4LNCChair:
I mean it when I said I would work to destroy any institution that tries to uphold a vaccine passport.
Theres no room…
RT @talkRADIO:
A school in Australia has made boys apologise to girls for rapes committed by their gender.
Julia: "I don't know why the bo…
School causes a problem. Solution? More school to "solve" the problem. Just like with government.
A better way to get rid of bullying would be to get rid of schools. twitter.com/AndyShaw1/stat…
RT @joergnicht:
Morning sun.
#Berlin https://t.co/owQDJxCmAg
RT @MarsCuriosity:
Quick! Stop scrolling.
What you see here aren’t just any clouds, they’re Martian clouds. Take a moment out of your day t…
RT @liberty_deity:
But without #USPS, who would deliver taxpayer-subsidized junk mail to rural communities?
RT @TheAtlasSociety:
Free INDIVIDUALS, Not "Sacrifice," Creates ABUNDANCE. #Capitalism #AynRand #Quotes https://t.co/OWveAEUvkY
RT @TheBabylonBee:
For Convenience, Vaccine Passport Can Now Be Tattooed On Your Hand Or Forehead babylonbee.com/news/for-conve…
Why not first ask whether the town should "atone"? twitter.com/i/events/13762…
Wow, Florida sounds great right now. twitter.com/aginnt/status/…
RT @Der_Postillon:
Gesundheitsminister warnt: Osterhase könnte Millionen mit Corona infizieren
der-postillon.com/2020/04/osterh…
@derJamesJackson @GermanAtPompey
Needs to be lowercase v now due to that change.
Re first q: I don’t know but I don’t really care about the molecular level because it’s not relevant to understanding intelligence. And no that doesn’t preclude an understanding of my preferences.
The second question I don’t know how to answer because it’s not a sentence.
RT @dchackethal:
@EricHolthaus
And calls for "equity" are the kind of thing that sabotages our ability to create more wealth, which in turn…
I'm hungry right now. I have a preference to eat. So I know my preference.
RT @RussellOkung:
I remember when the idea of domestic vaccine passports were conspiracy theory.
It’s not free. I don’t know how it’s being financed, but it’s definitely not free.
Not really, we just need to reduce government overreach.
@crit_rat @krlwlzn
Yeah, and I think we can connect this with replication strategies. Some ideas may compete better when processing power is low, giving them an edge over better ideas. Encoding knowledge that helps the mind and outreplicates rivals is more expensive than only encoding the latter!
Not giving to charity isn’t greedy either. It’s just rightfully keeping what one has earned.
Even if he had taken more shares, it doesn’t make sense to call someone greedy for having something for which others would pay a high price.
RT @micsolana:
a great day to remember that, per last count, amazon has created around 1,300,000 jobs, which is roughly 1,300,000 more jobs…
RT @BetterCallSaul:
Just three cool, terrifying dudes. https://t.co/BKrPQvuZpd
Mir scheint es ja, als gäbe es dafür eine Regel, denn oft wählt man intuitiv einen bestimmten Artikel für eine neue englische Entlehnung und lehnt andere Artikel ab, weil sie komisch klingen würden.
Ich kann die Regel aber nicht nennen, nur benutzen!
Woher kennt man eigentlich die Artikel bei englischen Entlehnungen? Die Email, der Hotdog, die SMS, der Lockdown, der Drink... gibt es dafür eine Regel oder hat die jeder Deutsche intuitiv auswendig gelernt?
“Er will sie sogar [zur Zwangsarbeit] verpflichten.” Woher nimmt er sich das Recht? twitter.com/argonerd/statu…
Hopefully the child won’t have to be taught that, but only if he wants to. twitter.com/lexfridman/sta…
I hope to see one of these for @billburr very soon.
RT @_Islamicat:
Jabril aiming for peak fitness to take battle to the infurdels and their offensive cartoons #BatleyGrammar https://t.co/nnY…
RT @TheAtlasSociety:
Socialism 's inherent "virtue" is the equal sharing of misery! #SocialismSucks #AynRand https://t.co/wQy3GVZBfe
In einer wirklich freien Gesellschaft gäbe es auch gar keine Politiker.
@SimonHoiberg @abdallah___nour
Non-idempotent ones that might be destructive.
“You can use modules for this as well.”
How?
RT @dvassallo:
Forget about becoming something. Just do stuff.
Don't write to become a writer. Write when you feel like writing. Applies t…
More buggy animal programming: instagram.com/reel/CMZGIfRgp…
The squirrel’s mouth is completely filled with a peanut. Nonetheless, it tries to gnaw on a hazelnut, but its teeth can’t reach the hazelnut. It just keeps going for a while. The squirrel has no idea what it’s doing.
RT @dvassallo:
Why you should reconsider the steady paycheck. From Antifragile: https://t.co/G2bLY2kh4G
It's because the interpreter/compiler (depending on your JS implementation) reads { foo, bar } as shorthand and expands it to { foo: foo, bar: bar }. It's a shorthand for object notation. Its introduction was pretty recent as I recall.
It might be good to explain to ppl why that works.
“[...] it is expected that parents would have the final say [in vaccinating their children] in any case”
In other words, parents could force their children to take the vaccine.
The article is all science, zero morals.
Counter the advertisement there is a cancelation fee in the millions.
RT @Bobby_Network:
A new snack-series has been released by @wef to ensure proper stakeholder capitalism-metabolism for the future.
𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚒…
Very cool. Reminds me of Brett Victor. twitter.com/elzr/status/13…
@MynonaZwo @NormalP36820428 @TextSkizzen
Stimmt, gute Idee—ich liege vermutlich falsch. Es sei denn, "welche" hat nur "meine" Bedeutung, wenn es im Plural verwendet wird.
@MynonaZwo @NormalP36820428 @TextSkizzen
Kann aber gut sein, dass das nur meine Interpretation des Worts "welche" ist.
@MynonaZwo @NormalP36820428 @TextSkizzen
Faende ich da auch besser. Fuer mich hat "welche" jedoch eine etwas andere Bedeutung als "die". "Die Diener, welche die Diebe ueberraschten..." impliziert fuer mich: Unter allen Dienern gab es manche, die die Diebe ueberrascht haben. Aber es waeren nicht alle Diener.
Differences in opinion do not imply subjectivity to a matter. It's actually the opposite: there's a problem that can be solved, and whether one solves it is an objective fact.
@KennethCassel @SimonHoiberg @SlipApp
Idea to get more users to sign up: only charge $19 a month once they start making money.
"Absolute statements" make it easier for you to criticize me than wishy-washy ones btw, so they help a critical discussion along. They're indicative of the opposite of an "absolute inability for dialog" (which was a bit rude, don't you think?).
Maybe the criteria I use are wrong. Concretely, you could convince me that animals are conscious if you show me some animal behavior that could not possibly have been preprogrammed by evolution.
We both know what we're talking about when the talk about the problem of consciousness, so we don't need a definition. Some problems with definitions here: youtube.com/watch?v=fgeMEr…
My mind is not made up. There are ways you could convince me I am wrong that I could tell you.
@KennethCassel @SimonHoiberg @SlipApp
Looks cool. I don't get the pricing overview though: slip.so/#pricing
I pay you $19 a month and 10% of my sales, or you pay me that? (I hope the former!)
I guess Sam Harris' "what it feels like to be something." But definitions aren't important.
More importantly, there are criteria for consciousness, and animals don't meet them.