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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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@AbbasAmjad7 @shujolnyc @ewarren
And no, you did not answer my questions.
@AbbasAmjad7 @shujolnyc @ewarren
What is theft is forcefully taking money from peaceful people, including entrepreneurs, whatever the purpose of that might be (including subsidizing of wages).
@AbbasAmjad7 @shujolnyc @ewarren
I did not say that paying people a living wage is theft. There are plenty of ways to do that that don’t involve theft.
@AbbasAmjad7 @shujolnyc @ewarren
Can you take a step back and answer my questions? They weren’t rhetorical.
@AbbasAmjad7 @shujolnyc @ewarren
If somebody (not the government) took money from you at the threat of violence and used it to subsidize somebody else's wage, would that not be theft?
Does it even matter what that somebody uses the money for in your determination of that?
Nothing in my tweet suggests that I support slave labor or that I'm entitled. Why do you jump to such conclusions? Can you interpret my tweet more charitably so that you know what I might really be in favor of?
@AbbasAmjad7 @shujolnyc @ewarren
I was thinking of her plans for a wealth tax when I wrote that. But yes, in a way, minimum wage is theft, too—albeit a more metaphorical kind—since the government extorts money from businesses at the threat of punishment to increase payments to employees.
And you want to counter that by rigging the system more by institutionalizing more theft from successful people?
Es freut mich, dass sich nicht alle diesem Unsinn fuegen – vor allem in akademischen Bereichen, wo sich solche Meme wie das "Gendern" ja bekanntlich wie ein Lauffeuer ausbreiten.
(Ich bezweifle uebrigens, dass Kraemer den Tweet selbst verfasst hat.) twitter.com/Pertsch/status…
Das ist keine schlechte Idee. Man könnte auch Nachrichten von denen filtern, die ihre Pronomen im Namen stehen haben.
Männerfeindlich ist es zwar nicht, aber höchst albern und prätentiös.
Stumbled upon this neat comment on my talk I recently gave at the @OxfordPopper society that made my day:
youtube.com/watch?v=RH1cyC… https://t.co/bWra9VcdHZ
“[...] sponsored by a realtor with no technology experience [...]”
Idiot lawmakers twitter.com/daringfireball…
RT @RichardDawkins:
New Rule: Cancel Culture is Over Party | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) youtu.be/gmXTUSP9a9M via @YouTube
So what explains the difference? Majority of regular flus being misdiagnosed as COVID?
RT @HowardSteen4:
Whoa...superspreaders of common sense. The Dutch and the Austrians have got Germany almost surrounded. Classic pincer tac…
Sounds to me like his Sunday School teacher gave him some pretty shitty advice. God forbid he should have made even more progress! twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/st…
RT @Astro_Soichi:
まちのあかりが とてもきれいね #首都圏 #Tokyo and #Yokohama #Japan https://t.co/4j1lB1RkEw
RT @Astro_Soichi:
#きょうのバジル 16日目。真ん中のバジルも背が伸びてきたね。 #SpaceBasil Day16 https://t.co/74ZNowi4nh
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Brits: remember you need a reasonable excuse to go outside.
"I like the light of our sun" or "I just wanted to see th…
Hat sie bestimmt noch nie gehört.
RT @RubinReport:
BREAKING: Young children sitting in dystopian plastic dividers get lectured by authoritarian millionaire poser pretending…
Yes. And your tweets helps those who are opposed to regulations understand those in favor better.
Yes, and we're only beginning to see the damage it's doing.
Personal responsibility increases without mandates. When forced, people cannot possibly take responsibility because they have no choice in the matter. They can only point fingers to the government: "well he told me to!" Responsibility is impossible without freedom.
“Removing statewide mandates does not end personal responsibility.” Exactly.
Good for Texas. twitter.com/AP/status/1366…
@FallingIntoFilm @ella_hoeppner
It's conceivable that not just the constants but also the structure of physical laws are (or seem) finely tuned.
@Setsuna7 @NASAPersevere @HiRISE
Me, of course. I meant we will be there in person, standing on the surface.
@FallingIntoFilm @ella_hoeppner
Same laws of physics with different constants are different laws of physics. I think DD writes something to that effect somewhere in BoI.
One day we will see that with our own eyes.
Some. How many more buildings would be built, and how much more would the real-estate market be thriving, if property tax didn't exist?
You're suggesting in effect that since property tax hasn't completely decimated the real-estate market it's not doing any damage.
In effect, government is taking out a loan in their citizens' name and then threatening them with violence to pay it back. And charging interest, too. Even if the citizens never wanted the loan in the first place.
The government provides certain services. That is correct. But once certain laws are passed, citizens do not have a say in whether to pay for those services. So they can't be responsible to "taking" something that was just given to them without them asking for it.
When you encounter someone on the street and you have the power to kill him, do you think it would be okay to do so if you don't know what his preferences are?
What if, instead of a random stranger, it was your child?
Yes, true, the laws of physics are the same across the multiverse.
No precautions for the world's safety because none are needed. The primary "precaution" (postcaution?) is that of being prepared never to turn the AGI off again without its consent.
That said, I think Deutsch says somewhere that the multiverse does provide a measure. I may be wrong, though.
But how one could know that they're all within a narrow range, I do not know. Especially since there are so many possible combinations of constants in different ranges that might all lend themselves to apparently finely tuned phenomena.
One could fix it by saying that while there are infinitely many laws of physics that allow life, they're all within some narrow range of possible values for constants. Then there'd be fine-tuning again.
Isn't that the thing where we don't have a measure for that? To say "comparatively"? Since there are infinitely many laws of physics that would result in both.
Hmmm... then, presumably, that universe would end up with one giant black hole after a while, since all the other holes would attract each other, and if anyone were there to see it, he'd marvel at how the laws of physics were so finely tuned as to create this one giant black hole
I recall, but I don't recall him saying anything about whether there could be any universes in which the laws of physics don't seem finely tuned. Or maybe I missed something.
@ewarren @PramilaJayapal @RepBrendanBoyle
You're doing the thing again where you speak of "two cent" but mean "two percent." It's misleading and dishonest.
OK, if there are no possible universes from within which it would seem that the laws of physics aren't finely tuned, why is fine-tuning a problem?
Question re fine tuning: are there any logically possible universes with different laws of physics from within which it wouldn't seem like the laws of physics are finely tuned?
Selbstverständlich. Im Singular auch.
Oder einfach: Kolleg+•|:;$%inn{]en++. Da sollte sich wirklich jeder angesprochen fühlen.
Yes, because it also means that government theft compounds. “Giving back to society” is a very misleading description of what happens. Especially when one never took anything.
Building on your post, I analyze a recent tweet of @ewarren : blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/wealth-t…
Auf dem Bild werden Menschen buchstäblich mit Schafen verglichen!
Witzig, dass man früher “gesamt” mit zwei m schrieb.
If true, the irony is, of course, that Biden is saying this to make government more authoritarian. twitter.com/hofrench/statu…
Yup was gonna say the same thing.
Zzgl. zur wissenschaftlichen Haltung bedarf es auch moralischer Haltung.
"studies show", "evidence-based ...", "lived experience"
I mentally said "goodbye" to Google when their developer documentation had a black banner at the top for BLM. Like, put it in your press release, but don't disrupt developer workflows with your signaling.
Bummer, for a second I thought he turned it down because he saw through the charade.
"because it's the right thing to do" can still be a bit authoritarian or lead to authoritarian policies.
We should help people because we want to. That way, those who don't want to are free not to.
And calls for "equity" are the kind of thing that sabotages our ability to create more wealth, which in turn sabotages our ability to become healthier.
We have capitalism to thank for the wealth that allows us to create such vaccines in the first place.
Check out Wheelman on Netflix. Great footwork in that one.
@EricRWeinstein @DavidDeutschOxf @rickygervais
If not, they’d simply remain chimps—or something close to it, but qualitatively different from people either way. Which isn’t terrifying either. Or is it?
@EricRWeinstein @DavidDeutschOxf @rickygervais
I’m likewise unsure what the potential term might be, but why terrifying?
If chimps underwent the same genetic changes that lead to creativity/consciousness etc—ie personhood—then they’d be one of us. And they’d replicate our memes, become a member of our culture, etc.
RT @ChipkinLogan:
My article about the 1920 'Great Debate' over the scale of the universe has been published with @PhysicsWorld -
https:/…
If they simply made that fn part of the core there’d be no need for a new pipe syntax.
And you’d have more flexibility too because it would come with all the benefits of being able to pass the fn around programmatically, dynamically populating its arguments list, etc.
That one feels like something that shouldn’t be implemented on a language level but simply as a function.
let pipe = (init, fns) => {
return fns.reduce((acc, curr) => {
return curr(acc);
}, init);
}
Typed this on my phone but I think it should work.
Managed to convince him over the next 30 min or so that freedom and independence are more important and that in fact governments do not act for the "good of the community." He closed saying "yeah, persuasion is better than force." Success! https://t.co/dLe8yMRwk0
Just spoke to a Chinese about lockdowns (he left China for America before pandemic started). Asked him how he would feel if the government welded his doors and windows shut. He said he'd be fine it since it's for the "good of the community."
I'm still waiting for Saul to bring this up in Better Call Saul.
RT @thehill:
Illinois lawmaker seeks ban of "Grand Theft Auto" game following rise in carjackings hill.cm/7i9BhGZ https://t.co/vO6X…
Hatte ich einfach noch nie gehört. Aber es scheint ja regional bedingt zu ein, also ergibt es durchaus Sinn.
Parkieren klingt aber komisch.
How does that saying go: the harder the challenge the greater the triumph?
RT @TheAtlasSociety:
Yeah, We Didn't Think So... #SocialismSucks #ShrinkGovernment #GrowLiberty #AynRand https://t.co/dNsrF1fD3Z
Tomorrow we may find that DD's hard-to-vary approach is mistaken. And then we can reevaluate ideas we previously discarded. And look for a better principle. And so on.