Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
My blog about philosophy, coding, and anything else that interests me.
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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.
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RT @michaelmalice:
people are trained to believe this since kindergarten, when kids are locked together in a room all day with other kids t…
RT @aginnt:
Tunisia erupts as the government continues to use COVID as an excuse to eliminate freedoms. pic.twitter.com/jTHWUbemRH
RT @rondeaulivia:
See you guys in the gulag! pic.twitter.com/u5QrNJA3ju
RT @reitschuster:
Wieler rät jetzt auch zum Masken-Tragen im eigenen Haushalt, wenn jemand positiv getestet wurde.
Zuvor hatte das RKI von…
RT @libsoftiktok:
This guy reportedly kept a french fry in his mouth for the entire 1.5 hr flight so he wouldn’t have to wear a mask 😂😂 LEG…
Interesting read. Wasn’t like that when I left Apple in 2019. t.co/JP0iHxjvTp
Maybe. But the implication that conservatives are ‘covidiots’ or something is compatible with your tweet. And if the tables were turned and liberals were called covidiots I can easily imagine Fox News jumping on the opportunity.
What you’re saying provides evidence both in your favor and in mine, depending how you look at it.
@behrenstimb @Neuro_Skeptic @guardianopinion
Denying people’s agency is one problem.
RT @Neuro_Skeptic:
@behrenstimb @guardianopinion
I’d question whether this is a topic where neuroscience is useful. If the author is talkin…
Would a Twitter report headline also have read ‘Liberal politician AOC contracts covid after partying maskless in Florida’?
Not even Fox News did that: foxnews.com/politics/aoc-t…
I’m in the process of migrating to another podcast hosting provider. Hopefully back up soon.
Creativity had selection working in its favor at the rate at which deleterious mutations occur, which are much more numerous than favorable mutations.
To be clear, we didn’t lose our inborn ability to walk suddenly – we lost it gradually. Mutations decreasing that inborn ability added up over time and creativity could make up along the way so there was no selection pressure to keep the inborn ability.
RT @realDailyWire:
READ IT: Supreme Court’s Massive Blow Against Biden’s Vaxx Mandate dlvr.it/SH4gNN pic.twitter.com/iqZKsc7IqQ
RT @ANothlich:
Das „Argument“, man könne sich ja einfach impfen lassen, funktioniert übrigens auch bei jeder Religion. Man könnte ja einfac…
That’s right folks, people don’t make choices — they’re the hopeless, automatic slaves of their lizard brains!
Body parts that evolved millions of years ago are especially good at indulging in the latest technology. twitter.com/Neuro_Skeptic/…
RT @SpaceX:
10th landing of this Falcon 9 first stage booster pic.twitter.com/6HmNAdU7NY
That doesn’t work for me but focusing on the white area left of the nose as the face’s nose sometimes works.
I’m not suggesting that those things appear inborn. Eg people aren’t born knowing how to play instruments.
And why mention that Beck is conservative? Is Twitter implying that conservatives are more likely to catch covid? That they should therefore be avoided? Why didn’t I see Twitter saying anything about @AOC catching covid?
Twitter reports:
Conservative commentator and radio host Glenn Beck, who has claimed he’s unvaccinated, announces he has contracted COVID-19 for a second time and that it has spread to his lungs
Idk the guy but Twitter making the ‘rona sound like cancer isn’t helping.
[W]ould that be another example of mindless copying.
Yes. Transmission of animal memes does not require creativity. See eg Byrne’s behavior parsing.
How do we distinguish?
By asking whether an ability can or cannot be inborn.
No, it’s that we’re born not knowing how to walk. Children learn to walk themselves. (There are other considerations re animals such as physical maturing but that’s the long and short of it.)
Walking, riding a bike, depth perception, navigating familiar surroundings, playing a song you’ve practiced to perfection…
Basically any ability you’ve learned and more or less mastered so now you don’t need creativity anymore to execute it.
But the mechanism by which memes spread is creativity. Even a 100% static society with ~zero originality consists of creative people. A cuttlefish couldn’t replicate those memes.
And much of what humans do cannot be inborn. Which is why I asked in the beginning:
Why couldn’t that ability be entirely inborn and then executed mindlessly?
That’s usually the single question any serious evaluation of allegedly intelligent animal behavior boils down to.
No. Creativity has nothing to do with taking on colors from the environment, not in degree nor principle.
Interesting to contrast this with optical illusions where you can decide when to see what. E.g. a while back I saw a picture of two buildings and one could decide which building was in the foreground. Finding out what the difference is could be important.
What is telling the cuttlefish whether it is getting the correct pattern or not?
Some inborn criterion to compare against. ‘Ground truth’ in that case supplied by environment + criterion.
Eine Regierung sollte nicht in der Lage sein, einer App einfach so mit einer “Abschaltung” zu drohen. twitter.com/ZStadtfux/stat…
I think an argument could be made that programmers can be partially better writers because they’re trained to find elusive typos.
That’s assuming evo psych is true. It isn’t. People have ideas about what’s scary and what isn’t which they create themselves. They don’t just inherit those ideas genetically.
Some people find the ‘uncanny’ in the uncanny valley interesting, worthy of study, not scary at all.
If it were inborn I would expect it to copy it faithfully with little effort.
Compare certain ‘AI’ algorithms that recognize numbers. Takes lots of training and readjusting. Inborn != effortless.
How can an organism have an [ability] to imitate a pattern or shape that it hasn’t been naturally selected for?
Its ‘pattern-emulation’ algorithm may have reach (Deutsch).
Why couldn’t that ability be entirely inborn and then executed mindlessly?
Evidence that knowledge is autonomous: you can’t just will it into existence or will it away.
I first saw the dog, then the face, then the dog again. Face is elusive. twitter.com/ResNeXtGuesser…
RT @libsoftiktok:
Spotted at Ohio State University 🤡 pic.twitter.com/HHusXS4W84
RT @CommunistTerror:
“A Woman In Berlin” has apparently been banned by the current Russian government. It is a diary written by a 34 year-…
RT @ThomasSowell:
There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.
Scientific American stopped being scientific a while ago: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/scientif…
Wichtig im Hinterkopf zu behalten, dass solche Menschen fest davon überzeugt sind, dass sie Gutes tun. Auch wenn es für uns irre klingt.
They also want to trick you into climate lockdowns by making climate change a health issue.
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
We could potentially save several lives per year if safety helmets were mandatory in schools at all times.
If this is what the people at @butcherbox think is good security practice I’m worried about my account information. And you should be, too.
It’s like displaying a password to you in plain text and then asking you to paste it for “security purposes”. Makes no sense. If they’re talking to an attacker then they just displayed the password to the attacker.
Perhaps even more annoying than @butcherbox’s incessant use of the word ‘sustainability’ is their practice of first displaying your phone number and email address to you when you start a support chat and then asking you to repeat that same information for “security purposes”.
RT @Paolo1264:
A West German man shows his son the other side of the Berlin Wall (1961). pic.twitter.com/XUJrrhVW9T
Bedient sich trotzdem so einiger kollektivistischer Motive, die in einer wirklich freiheitlichen Partei nichts zu suchen hätten.
RT @dvassallo:
Lifestyle design by @mijustin — justinjackson.ca/work-harder pic.twitter.com/9Yy8PvXsn6
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
Didn’t even know why they gave the invitation in the first place reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/CsjV1OPJZn
Maia doesn’t feel safe! Quick, somebody call the police!
A society that really, I mean really respects property rights needs no explicit right for weapon ownership such as the second amendment: that right simply falls out of property rights, which the forced confiscation of weapons breaks.
RT @aginnt:
German protestors demonstrating against the COVID police state push back the police. pic.twitter.com/6J3WF9ReOX
RT @aginnt:
Austria stands up today.
From Innsbruck👇🏼
twitter.com/RadioGenova/st…
People of queerness = POQ
BIPOC = bisexual people of queerness
And git revert would be extremely useful.
See also: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/a-progra… twitter.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0…
Schnell, alle Läden zwangsschließen und Leute zu Hause einsperren! twitter.com/argonerd/statu…
RT @aginnt:
This weekends protest in Paris against COVID law was so big the police couldn’t stop it. pic.twitter.com/EAXCVYgx4d
RT @aginnt:
Paris continues its six-month straight weekend protest against vaxx mandates unafraid and as strong as ever. https://t.co/7FjBR…
@aniketvartak @meaningfulideas
Possible, yes. And yes Twitter sucks for discussions.
Devastating. The sense of entitlement to men’s attention, that is. twitter.com/thetimes/statu…
@HelloPurgatory @MinistryofTru16
Didn’t that hurt the Indian?
You really can’t criticize professional fear monger @PaulREhrlich enough. twitter.com/HumanProgress/…
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
there are 3 types of people reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/OHyfJDoPTd
RT @aginnt:
Zurich stands up to COVID authoritarianism today. pic.twitter.com/vxg9x8g1VI
RT @aginnt:
Huge anti-COVID law protests breakout again all across Germany this weekend.
Karlsruhe today.
pic.twitter.com/pED7xteJoZ
RT @reitschuster:
Früher waren Grundrechte der unantastbare Wesenskern unseres Grundgesetzes.
Heute nutzt sie der Staat als Druckmittel, u…
RT @ElijahSchaffer:
Isn’t tyranny so cute and totally fun OMG 🤩😍 pic.twitter.com/0TSo7DviVW
RT @aginnt:
The anti-COVID mandate resistance in Vienna marches today. pic.twitter.com/atVABDn6p0
You’re taking an important idea (children are not free) and then turning it into SJW nonsense used to make ppl less free. Also the second sentence is invalid grammatically.
A child who is BIPOC […] the systemic oppression we face is that much more intense.
wut?
RT @philthatremains:
Soviet levels of propaganda pic.twitter.com/OEIaIm99wV
RT @reitschuster:
«Leider bin ich intellektuell zu schlicht gestrickt, ich habe immer noch nicht begriffen was “rechts” mit Coronamaßnahmen…
RT @firstofequals:
No worker should make less than the average wage. #FightFor30
RT @reitschuster:
Österreich fordert „tätige Reue“ von Impf-Verweigerern.
Ungeimpfte, die keine Strafe wollen, sollen sich „herausimpfen“.…
RT @aginnt:
The Netherlands in 2022. twitter.com/Eastern_Freedo…
RT @reitschuster:
In funktionierenden Demokratien ist es kein Problem, wenn jemand eine Impfung kritisiert.
Im “besten Deutschland aller Z…
RT @aginnt:
How large are the weekly protest against COVID restrictions in Germany?
Düsseldorf this weekend. pic.twitter.com/EHN6vxouL8
RT @aginnt:
An authoritarian pathology is controlling our democratically elected leaders.
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
This is scientific. It even says “science” at the top in big red letters. That’s how you know it’s science.
RT @ryanlongcomedy:
Breaking News: Your Should Still Be Very Afraid pic.twitter.com/A4mdQJsyUb
RT @aginnt:
An older woman in Germany is a threat to society because she breaks unscientific COVID law. twitter.com/Inkognito1117/…
‘But without government, who’d beat the scary ‘rona out of people??’ twitter.com/ClimateWarrior…
RT @aginnt:
What COVID democracy looks like in Europe. pic.twitter.com/QRPgJRyXOW
These scientists are going against THE SCIENCE ™.
When personal responsibility is exactly what they want you to negate by acting in the interest of the collective. twitter.com/ThomasEWoods/s…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Rest assured, they are all being beaten and savaged by dogs perfectly legally.
These people were outside, and it’s il…