Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
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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.
I remember thinking it was weird when Obama got it. But this is worse. twitter.com/nypost/status/…
I just wrote about how evil wealth tax is earlier today: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/wealth-t…
I’ve watched about two thirds of it. Yeah it’s interesting. If true, I’d put it in the category of “hardware problems causing software problems.”
blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/wealth-t…
She won't read it. But maybe some others will. And maybe they will recognize how evil what Warren is advocating really is.
New blog post: "Wealth Tax Is Evil"
Whereas if you live for 60 years after acquiring some asset, a wealth tax will tax that same asset 60 times. A wealth tax compounds.
Graham writes:
The reason wealth taxes have such dramatic effects is that they're applied over and over to the same money. Income tax happens every year, but only to that year's income.
Here's an article @paulg wrote on the subject:
For example, at a mere 1% wealth tax, the government will have taken almost 50% of the taxed assets at the end of your life.
Also, a wealth tax is particularly insidious because it taxes the same amount again and again. A percentage that may seem low can have devastating effects over the years.
Their ability to afford it does not justify theft from them.
The parasite keeps growing.
That’s how it starts: it affects “only” the top 0.1%. So most people don’t care. Then the parasite grows a little more. Which costs more. So then it’s 1%. Rinse, repeat. twitter.com/ewarren/status…
Cool. Was hoping browsers would add support for aspect ratios. twitter.com/Una/status/135…
Those teachers are indeed oppressors. But not because of racism. twitter.com/realchrisrufo/…
Anscheinend nicht: duden.de/rechtschreibun… benutzt "5%ig"
Heißt es dann auch "50 %-ig"? Zum Beispiel in "Es gibt eine 50 %-ige Wahrscheinlichkeit".
Ganz richtig. Schade nur, dass die Leerzeichen manchmal dazu führen, dass die Abkürzungen von einer Zeile auf die nächste getrennt werden, wenn sie nicht mehr in die Zeile passen.
Die Zeitangaben machen alle wenig Unterschied. Für Politiker, weil sie ohnehin weiter bezahlt werden, für Bürger, weil man sich in zehn Wochen wieder etwas Neues ausdenkt, um Restriktionen noch länger bestehen zu lassen.
"I own stocks, so I have a pretty good understanding of the stock market" is a non sequitur.
Those folks putting ever more masks on at ever more times of day are rather reminiscent of both the flagellants and the inhabitants of the Easter Island. “Let’s enact this lifestyle ever more faithfully, maybe it will save us! To hell with freedom and creativity!”
RT @RitterJurgen:
was sind schon 34 Jahre?
#Berlin #DDR #Tucholskystraße
1987 - 2021 https://t.co/LZSbnmg9nr
Literally the first question in the FAQ: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/libertar…
Memes exist in at least two different physical forms. Also, memes can go up and laterally across generations of people.
Variations on reduce with single-line arrow functions.
Another question we don’t always ask: at whose expense and with whose consent?
David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity”
I see the heaters haven’t changed much since.
They thank you “for supporting struggling Californians.” But it wasn’t you. It was the other Californians from whom you stole that money at the threat of violence. And now you’re taking credit.
What mic is that and does it come with the audio cover thing around it?
From a libertarian perspective, it's as though the headline read: "It's finally a Latino's turn to steal people's money." twitter.com/GavinNewsom/st…
RT @SpaceX:
Falcon 9 launches Starlink to orbit – the eighth launch and landing of this booster https://t.co/zyj8ZdDFql