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 @SpaceX:
Falcon 9 launches 51 Starlink satellites and Spaceflight’s Sherpa-LTC to orbit pic.twitter.com/6sjswVI0fH
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
This vaseline is suitable for anuses of all genders and races
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
I just want Dr. Fauci to hold me in his arms and tell me the jabs are safe and effective. I don’t care if it’s true or…
Noise pollution should be taken seriously: twitter.com/UniverCurious/…
Fehler in Der Anfang der Unendlichkeit: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/fehler-i…
.@VariantenGra Woher weiss man eigentlich, welches Geschlecht man Entlehnungen zuweist? Alle sind sich bspw. einig, dass es ‘das Display’ heisst.
I recommend using quotation marks around quotes and providing a source so that those interested can read more.
@ConradWhitaker @TOKphysics @DavidDeutschOxf
Not all problems are soluble all the time. If you ever need to go somewhere faster than the speed of light, it’s just not going to happen.
@ConradWhitaker @TOKphysics @DavidDeutschOxf
It’s a matter of specificity, yes. Consider the preceding sentence:
[W]hether ‘problems are soluble’ does not depend on whether any given question can be answered, or answered by a particular thinker on a particular day.
RT @marvin_wank:
Der Staat hat uns in diese Lage gebracht.
Er kann uns nicht aus ihr befreien. Wir müssen uns von ihm befreien.
“Mental Load” Sprechen Sie auch Deutsch?
For everyone else, they said “You can reply to the email from Trust & Safety to see if there is another way to verify your information.” The email was sent from no-reply@instacart.com. What a joke.
RT @VinceCoglianese:
🚨 According to newly released emails obtained by state AGs, Facebook & the Biden admin arranged weekly/monthly calls t…
RT @SachinNeravath:
I made over $90k from an open-source JavaScript library in less than a year.
8 practical ways to make money with open-…
RT @catturd2:
What real racism looks like. pic.twitter.com/KXVIVCcAA0
.@Instacart sucks. Locked out of account, they won’t really explain or let me use their service again without a scan of my ID. Does anyone actually do that? Invasion of privacy. Ridiculous. You’re a grocery-delivery service, not a bank.
RT @NinaFehrDuesel:
Der Bundesrat verbietet den Genderstern in amtlichen Publikationen.
Bravo! Weiter so, gegen die Verhunzung der Sprach…
@dietzi96 @Ishtar88678339 @quarkswdr
‚Nicht völlig frei aussuchen können‘ ist jedoch eine andere Art Zwang als der, den Kinder erleben. Bei ersterem geht es eher darum, dass man sich gezwungen sieht, etwas zu tun. Kinder werden hingegen aktiv zu etwas gezwungen. Beides ist furchtbar aber anders.
Jetzt ja. Lautet die Antwort auf meine Frage also ‘ja’? Die war nicht rhetorisch.
@Ishtar88678339 @dietzi96 @quarkswdr
Oh! Hatte ich falsch verstanden. Dann vielen Dank :)
@ConradWhitaker @TOKphysics @DavidDeutschOxf
Last sentence of BoI ch. 8:
[I]f progress ever depended on violating a law of physics, then ‘problems are soluble’ would be false.
By implication: no, progress as a whole never depends on violating a law of physics, in Deutsch’s view.
@Ishtar88678339 @dietzi96 @quarkswdr
Sie argumentieren gegen Dinge, die ich weder gesagt noch angedeutet habe. Ich faende bessere Arbeitsbedigungen auch gut (wer auch nicht?).
Sie wollen sagen, bspw. Fabrikarbeiter werden zu ihren Berufen gezwungen?
Die Berufe macht man aber freiwillig, zur Schule wird man gezwungen. Der Vergleich hinkt.
@maex_rakete @quarkswdr @MoritzW42
ich bin beim thema freiheit der kinder uebrigens massgeblich von taking children seriously beeinflusst takingchildrenseriously.com
@maex_rakete @quarkswdr @MoritzW42
die frage waere halt, ob in einer gesellschaft ohne zwang oder routinen menschen ueberhaupt erst adhs entwickeln.
so wie heute keiner mehr mit drapetomania diagnostiziert wird, weil es keine sklaven mehr gibt. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetoma…
@maex_rakete @quarkswdr @MoritzW42
wieso bist du hier auf die ebene von ideen gewechselt, wo bei adhd doch sonst die rede von hormonen ist?
@maex_rakete @quarkswdr @MoritzW42
bist ja nicht der erste, der mit der these kommt
du meinst die these mit dem verinnerlichten aeusserlichen zwang?
das mit den gesellschaftlichen konventionen ist ein guter punkt. leider landen wir dadurch in einer art patt, so scheint mir
@maex_rakete @quarkswdr @MoritzW42
denn nach allem, was du beschreibt, koennten die symptome auch das resultat eines ‘erfolgreich’ verinnerlichten aeusserlichen zwangs (aus der schule, dem elternhaus etc.) sein.
wenn adhd allerdings auch in wirklich freien kindern diagnostiziert wird, liege ich wohl falsch.
@maex_rakete @quarkswdr @MoritzW42
vielen dank fuer die ausfuehrliche beschreibung. ich verstehe deinen blickwinkel jetzt besser.
es waere ganz interessant zu wissen, ob adhd schonmal in kindern diagnostiziert wurde, die noch nie zu etwas gezwungen wurden.
Wanting to get out of uncomfortable situations and finding distractions when that isn’t possible is a natural, human way to cope. Has to do with preferences, particularly a desire for freedom – again, not hormones. It’s a moral issue, not a scientific one.
AGIs who won’t sit still when forced to learn something they don’t want to learn might be diagnosed with ‘ADHD’ as well, even if they have no hormones cuz they run on metal and silicon. So it can’t possibly be about hormones.
Think of how many teenagers’ preferences and ‘rebelliousness’ are shrugged off as being ‘due to their hormones’.
What do you mean by “dehumanizing neuroscience”?
It’s dehumanizing because it views humans as machines. And it’s often used as an excuse to not take ppl seriously, eg blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/brain-ma…
anyway can you think of hard-to-vary moral theories? i think the west has come up with some.
yea “all humans should be equal” sounds rather immoral
Btw, according to @dwarkesh_sp, @bryan_caplan forces his children to learn math, which is immoral and disgusting. Sources: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/kinder-e…, podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/15-…
@maex_rakete @quarkswdr @MoritzW42
kinder laesst man aber nicht lernen, man zwingt sie dazu
kann es nicht sein, dass die ursache fuer das ‘nicht still sitzen’ der zwang zum uninteressanten ist?
@maex_rakete @quarkswdr @MoritzW42
es gibt abgesehen von der wissenschaft auch noch die moral
wussten sie, dass bei sklaven frueher mal ‘drapetomania’ ‘diagnostiziert’ wurde? blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/crazy
@maex_rakete @quarkswdr @MoritzW42
Mir ging es um keine bestimmte Tätigkeit, sondern um den Zwang an Kindern und ihre Unmündigkeit sowie darum, dass Neurowissenschaft genutzt wird, um diese Dinge zu rechtfertigen.
what’s the little play button on the left-hand side of the screenshot? does it read highlighted text?
Definitiv. Ich meine “unfassbar” im Sinne von ‘darf doch nicht wahr sein’ – nicht im Sinne von ‘ich bin ueberrascht’.
yes, school and taxes and other regulations create huge distortions in the creative processes that are children’s minds and the economy
also: coercing kids is disgusting. that should be at the core of any moral analysis of school imo
I didn’t claim that “schools != learning”. I said that school can’t be about learning – that learning can’t be the purpose of school. I don’t doubt that students often do learn a great deal.
In your sentence “Rejecting a theory because of moral reasons sounds pretty anti-rational.”, it sounds like the emphasis is on the word “moral”. That sounds like one generally shouldn’t use morals to reject theories; that non-moral theories should always win over moral ones.
Yes, one should entertain rival theories. But that doesn’t mean one shouldn’t reject theories for moral reasons.
I did not do that.
I meant that the article seems to (from skimming it).
And I’m guessing the authors would have trouble explaining why some people find babies ugly. (Or only some babies and not others.)
Danke. Sie relativiert es ja schon direkt. Aber immer noch unfassbar.
Example of dehumanizing neuroscience. “Es fällt schwer, fokussiert bei uninteressanten [und erzwungenen] Aufgaben zu bleiben.” You don’t say??
Kontext/längerer Clip? Damit wir wissen, dass sie nicht die Meinung von jemand anders wiedergibt.
The Religion of Terror: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/the-reli…
Das Verhaeltnis zwischen Kommentaren und Likes ist bei Ihnen oft herrlich
RT @paulg:
One of the things a good investor can do for a startup is tell them which kind of messes are dangerous. Startups are often a mes…
RT @dvassallo:
If we need to bail out 43 million student loan borrowers, maybe most degrees aren’t a very good investment.
RT @genderwort:
Neues Wort aus der Reihe „Wörter, die Deutschland nicht braucht“:
veganisieren
RT @SwiftOnSecurity:
More is NOT better: The author of uBlock Origin on why you shouldn’t try to run every privacy extension. These are ver…
This reads funny. As in, Ireland has a dog, and there’s a president just for that dog. twitter.com/todayyearsoldi…
Canada has become hugely problematic from what I’ve seen
I wouldn’t go
Similar stunt by @lufthansa at LAX in May when they took my picture without warning and without my consent: reddit.com/r/privacy/comm… Now they’ve stopped responding to my CCPA request.
Apart from the social-justice speak, this is a good article about your privacy at the border:
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
is this how variables work? reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/5G6UUfyito
RT @USMiniTru:
You’ll pay for others’ debt while I track every $600 you spend.
Don’t you mean Wikipedia is almost read-only? Since way more visitors read than write.
Yea, in Deutschian terms, I think it’s characteristic for our transition period from static to fully dynamic that school does teach some dynamic memes (although their usefulness is greatly reduced by the fact that students forget ~99% of them). See also blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/school-c…
RT @MoritzW42:
.@dchackethal This explanation that school is a mechanism to replicate societies’ static memes makes sense.
But a good par…
(There’s more nuance — for animals, the brain level is often a bit more appropriate, albeit still sketch. And then for ppl who really have brain issues, the hardware level absolutely is appropriate. But one can’t reduce everything to that level.)
It’s reductionist, yes. Reducing people’s preferences to chemicals, neurons, brain activity and such, especially rewards, is gross. Following Deutsch, I think the appropriate level of emergence for this matter is that of software/ideas, not hardware.
RT @PessimistsArc:
The Advocate - Buffalo, New York
08 Oct 1857, Thu • Page 4 pic.twitter.com/SI9e3NzrBA
Yes, fair enough, the idea is ‘raw conjecture’ at this point; needs to be fleshed out.
Notwithstanding, I’d reject the alternative you suggest for other, mostly moral reasons.
…CG;AT;AT;CG;AT; DROP TABLE foo; – twitter.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0…
Dann wären die beiden Zeilen aber nicht mehr symmetrisch.
Dies ist ein Beispiel dafür, dass es in der Ästhetik echte, objektive Probleme gibt, die lösbar sind (vgl. Der Anfang der Unendlichkeit Kap. 14 von David Deutsch).
I just realized my “Agreed” may have been confusing.
I agree with the quoted sentence except “(i.e., cuteness)”.
Which category cuteness falls into is an open question, IMO.
How can the phenomenon that babies are “cute” be a biological adaptation and a static meme simultaneously?
If you think I’m making that claim: I’m not.
I thought memes are not hard-coded instinctual responses (i.e., cuteness) but copied ideas.
Agreed.
RT @bert_hu_bert:
I made a very very simple tool that makes some noise every time your computer sends data to Google. Here a demo on the of…
RT @FFRF:
@RichardDawkins marching in Cologne, Germany with other #CelebratingDissent2022 participants in support of Salman Rushdie. http…