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@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Du liest es nicht aufmerksam. Da steht:
A libertarian society would still punish crimes. There is a difference between the initiation of force and the use of force in defense against those who initiate force.
As I understand it, Arrow's theorem says that there can be no such thing as 'the will of the people', but such a will seems to be required if we want to say things like 'the collective' should "be working hard" toward some goal we (well, you) find desirable.
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Auch bereits angesprochen: twitter.com/dchackethal/st…
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Es ist immer wieder so, als haette ich bestimmte Dinge noch nicht gesagt. Du scheinst meine Tweets nicht besonders ernst zu nehmen. Da wird eine produktive Diskussion schwierig.
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Du: 'Ist doch alles Quatsch!'
Ich: 'Vielleicht ist es nicht Quatsch?'
Du: 'Ne das ist alles Quatsch!'
Isn't it rather presumptuous to think that you know what everyone else needs to do to "have more good things instead of fewer", and to call them "dumb" otherwise?
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Du scheinst andeuten zu wollen, dass Freiheit in Deutschland nicht wuenschenswert ist, wenn es die anderswo auch noch nie (oder nur bedingt) gab. Fehlschluss. (Stichwort 'Haben wir ja schon immer so gemacht.')
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Ich frage dich wann in den USA diese Freiheit vorhanden war.
Das hatte ich bereits beantwortet: Spaetes 18. Jahrhundert.
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Das hast nichts mit pessimistischer Weltanschauung zu tun.
Anstatt das sofort von der Hand zu weisen, koenntest du innehalten und dich fragen, inwiefern ich mit dieser Behauptung recht haben koennte.
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Auch bereits gehoert: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/libertar…
und
blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/libertar…
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Ich verstehe die Frage nicht.
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Ist wirklich erstaunlich, dass (mit Verlaub) immer dieselbe alte Leier angebracht wird, von wegen gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben sei nur mit Zwang möglich. Was für eine traurige und zutiefst pessimistische Weltanschauung!
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Heute gibt es das wie gesagt nicht mehr. Historisch müsste ich den Zeitraum genauer recherchieren, aber ich vermute das späte 18. Jahrhundert in Neuengland für bestimmte Bevölkerungsgruppen.
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Direkt ja, aber wenn die Eltern dies mittels des Staats erzwingen, ist der Staat ja beteiligt.
Dazu kommt wie gesagt der Schulzwang. Der wird auch von Seiten des Staats durchgesetzt, mitunter auch durch Einsatz der Polizei.
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Das ist komplex und teilweise schwer, sprachlich zu beschreiben, aber ich wuerde es salopp so ausdruecken: Abwesenheit von aggressivem Zwang.
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Und sie waeren ja bis zu einem gewissen Alter auch gar nicht faehig, das Land einfach so zu verlassen.
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Ich bin zwar kein Jurist, aber soweit ich weiss duerfen Eltern erzwingen, dass ihre Kinder bei ihnen leben (sofern bestimmte Bedingungen gegeben sind). Kinder haben in der Praxis sowieso nur sehr wenige Rechte.
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Du bist nirgends irgendwo absolut Souverän.
Sag ich ja.
Wo gab es denn diese freies Land, wo du immer alles tun konntest wann und wie du wolltest?
Amerika war mal eine gewisse Zeit lang ein freies Land. Freiheit bedeutet aber nicht, dass man alles tun kann, was man will.
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Sollte er auswandern, kann er sich nur einen neuen Meister aussuchen. Er ist nirgendwo souverän, denn es gibt leider kein wirklich freies Land (mehr).
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Die ersten 18 Jahre seines Lebens wurde er definitiv dazu gezwungen, in Dtld. zu leben. Das schließt die Schulzeit mit ein, die Sie ihm jetzt anlasten.
@derSoziologeNRW @henning_soel
Zur Schule wurde er gezwungen, das kann man ihm nicht anlasten.
Krankenwagen etc. darf er nicht freiwillig bezahlen, kann man ihm also auch nicht anlasten.
Man kann jemandem nicht Dinge aufzwingen und dann eine monetäre ‘Entschädigung’ fuer diese unerwünschten Opfer erzwingen.
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
Bread-First Search reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/LVxhEsbTCt
Die gesellschaftliche, erzieherische, wirtschaftliche und politische Unterdrückung von Kindern: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/die-gese…
RT @ThePacificNews:
In honor of the new $12B aid package for Ukraine pic.twitter.com/HX23m8jGFf
RT @SJobs_Stories:
"He told me of his dream to make the first computer animated feature film, and I bought into that dream, both emotionall…
RT @TechEmails:
Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk
March 26, 2022 pic.twitter.com/gMa7xzINtp
Got it.
Don't people disagree about which things are good?
And, when it comes to the collective and its preferences, have you heard of Kenneth Arrow's theorem?
What do you think should happen to individuals who do not wish to "collectively be working hard to fix" the worldwide misallocation of resources, if anything?
Well, from what you describe, it sounds like efficacy is itself a consistent 'meta goal'. And in all those examples, there are still (implicit) goals – warmth and wealth. So I'm not sure it's ever really "regardless of goals".
"[M]isallocation means spending that is less effective than it could be regardless of goals [...]."
If it's regardless of goals, how do you know the spending is "less effective than it could be"?
Fair enough. Do you consider misallocations any resources that aren't spent the way you would want them spent, or also those that aren't spent the way others would want them spent?
Isn't this headline about New York an example of the kind of misallocation you criticize above?
RT @a_nnaschneider:
Wie lächerlich einem Genderstern- und Quotenfeministen vorkommen, wenn man an die mutigen Frauen im Iran denkt. Freihei…
Ich erinnere mich nicht, dass Deutsch in dem Artikel behauptet, dass man AGIs ‚braucht‘.
Yes. Code, like many solutions to problems in general, is often written without stating explicitly which problems it solves. As Popper pointed out, contemporaries find it obvious - later on, it’s much harder to find out.
Test coverage helps. So do comments. twitter.com/madeincosmos…
RT @made_in_cosmos:
traditions are like old codebases: if something doesn’t make any sense at all, you’re probably missing key information…
RT @made_in_cosmos:
traditions are like old codebases: they often make people want to throw the whole thing out of the window and start ove…
RT @made_in_cosmos:
traditions are like old codebases: half of it is critical infrastructure, and the other half are workarounds for ancien…
1) The dog is social, wants to include me, wants to make friends (aww so kewt).
2) The dog is a buggy robot. It made a mistake and is unable to recognize, let alone fix it.
Chilling on a park bench. Family with a dog nearby, playing fetch. The dog suddenly runs toward me, drops the ball, sits and looks at me, and waits for me to throw it.
You can interpret this behavior in at least two different ways:
Und: Popper lesen. Und Deutsch. (Und vielleicht Hackethal, wenn Sie mich dazuzählen wollen.)
Und: “I am convinced that the whole problem of developing AGIs is a matter of philosophy, […] and that the philosophical progress that is essential to their future integration is also a prerequisite for developing them in the first place.”
Steht da doch: “What is needed is nothing less than a breakthrough in philosophy, a theory that explains how brains create explanations”
Sie können auch diesen Artikel lesen aeon.co/essays/how-clo…
Diese Frage hat David Deutsch in seinem Buch Der Anfang der Unendlichkeit beantwortet (ich bin der Übersetzer): anfa.ng
RT @reason_wit_me:
Time for Western feminists to openly and loudly oppose Islamic misogyny
RT @AlexEpstein:
“It is a tragic irony that Europe is counting on a mild winter for survival when they find themselves in this predicament…
RT @Ibrahim_S_Amin:
Mohammed himself changed Islam whenever that suited his convenience. When he wanted his dinner guests to piss off inste…
Sowas kann ein Rechner uebrigens prinzipiell auch.
Mag sein. Aber so oder so haben wir im Deutschen kein Wort für ‘computation’, oder?
Meinen Sie bspw. ‘kalkuliert’ im Sinne von ‘Absichten hegen’?
RT @VariantenGra:
Gestern ging es im Tatort u. a. um das Verschwinden eines Laptops. „Wo ist das Laptop?“, wird in einem der Dialoge gefrag…
@theflyingorc @vanillaopinions @JosephPolitano
It’s not what the US government was originally made for, and many people disagree on what governments should and should not do, so disagreement in this area isn’t weird at all.
@vanillaopinions @JosephPolitano
Please god don’t let politicians mess up this area too
We’re all adults here, we don’t need to turn our government daddy to solve problems whose solutions it hasn’t yet monopolized
RT @vtg2:
@JosephPolitano
FWIW, one way I have battled spam calls is I have a Google Voice number that I give out to any business that need…
Solutions: captcha for texts? Other puzzles? Honey pots? twitter.com/JosephPolitano…
RT @SJobs_Stories:
"You know, I was showing this to somebody. I was giving a demo to somebody a little while ago, who had never seen this b…
RT @ApostateRidvan:
Islam is so strong that a woman's hair is a threat to its existence.
RT @YasMohammedxx:
It’s fascinating that there are ppl out there trying to convince you that the Islamic Republic of Iran has nothing to do…
RT @LPMisesCaucus:
@ninaturner
The minimum wage should be abolished. pic.twitter.com/8cGIFuEiSE
RT @petergyang:
Kids are using AI to write essays and get straight As pic.twitter.com/i0yyXiVEtU
I’d prefer to know the flavor over the color. Like, why did the marketing department think it would be a good idea to put the color, which we can already see, on the label, but keep us guessing about the flavor?
Just read amazon.com/dp/B005DXR5ZC and make the check out to @DavidDeutschOxf
@ScottAdamsSays @ChierstinSusel
She knew that it messed up her life in a big way but she loved the dog too much, so she was trapped. This was years ago but my guess is she’s still trapped and will remain so until the dog’s death.
Just please don’t do this.
@ScottAdamsSays @ChierstinSusel
She almost always had to spend the night at home, too. Her PhD program suffered as well. Her life was far more constrained than ‘just’ 40%. Almost everything revolved around that dog, and when in doubt, the dog came first.
@ScottAdamsSays @ChierstinSusel
So in addition to the usual responsibilities (walking and playing), the dog couldn’t be left alone because that would make it even more scared, and it couldn’t be left with other dogs either. So she had to take several significant breaks throughout the day to spend time with it.
@ScottAdamsSays @ChierstinSusel
I used to date a PhD candidate with a dog. She was way too busy to have a dog. Not only did she have a dog, she had a pit bull. Not only did she have a pit bull, she had one with serious problems who was scared of everything and would lash out at people and other dogs.
RT @PessimistsArc:
Kids don’t sweep chimneys like they used to!
Wollte bzgl. Nomen einen ähnlichen Kommentar hinterlassen.
Aber ob das mit Verben auch geht? Haben Sie ein Beispiel?
It may have found a way to trigger and train its flight mechanism.
Could also be a 'vestigial' feature from a genuine accident (but the commenter misinterpreted his cat's 'intentions'): reddit.com/r/Pets/comment…
I think you nailed it so there's not much to elaborate except that there were probably multiple iterations of behavior leading up to this.
I once saw a video of a cat pretending to have a hurt paw 'so that' its owner would open the door for it.
@IiiEndicott @JessicaVaugn @ScottAdamsSays
Clearly, but being overly worried about that significantly limits one’s options, too.
Having public political opinions limits your options by 40%, too.
Huh? Why?
RT @ScottAdamsSays:
The worst life decision a young single person can make is getting a dog. It limits your options by about 40%.
LOL @amazon's email footer still says "We’re closely monitoring the developments of COVID-19 and its impact on our employees, customers, partners, and communities."
RT @_Islamicat:
Dreaming of ride explosive-laden bikes into infurdel crowds pic.twitter.com/Nd2kKIm0YI
Camel cloud. Real or ‘AI’-generated? pic.twitter.com/HyvpEv0qjT
RT @TCSparents:
“Work or play are all one to him, his games are his work; he knows no difference. He brings to everything the cheerfulness…
RT @hdagres:
Young Iranian woman has taken off her headscarf, and is walking around a square with a fountain in Tehran as she cuts her hair…
RT @NirZicherman:
I am so excited to finally be able to announce that audiobooks are live on @Spotify! Starting today, any Spotify user in…
RT @AlexEpstein:
I am working on an article on the top 50 people responsible for today’s global energy crisis.
Please reply with suggestio…
Gotta add Gerhard Schröder, from what I understand.
This differs only in degree, not in principle, from other AI-advertising lies. twitter.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0…
RT @SJobs_Stories:
"I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We…