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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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@MynonaZwo @NormalP36820428 @TextSkizzen

Stimmt, gute Idee—ich liege vermutlich falsch. Es sei denn, "welche" hat nur "meine" Bedeutung, wenn es im Plural verwendet wird.

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@MynonaZwo @NormalP36820428 @TextSkizzen

Kann aber gut sein, dass das nur meine Interpretation des Worts "welche" ist.

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@MynonaZwo @NormalP36820428 @TextSkizzen

Faende ich da auch besser. Fuer mich hat "welche" jedoch eine etwas andere Bedeutung als "die". "Die Diener, welche die Diebe ueberraschten..." impliziert fuer mich: Unter allen Dienern gab es manche, die die Diebe ueberrascht haben. Aber es waeren nicht alle Diener.

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@SyrslyWasTaken @CodeNewbies

Differences in opinion do not imply subjectivity to a matter. It's actually the opposite: there's a problem that can be solved, and whether one solves it is an objective fact.

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RT @CodeNewbies:
👏🏿 https://t.co/pTqAlq9Vxw

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@KennethCassel @SimonHoiberg @SlipApp

Idea to get more users to sign up: only charge $19 a month once they start making money.

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@Soph8B

"Absolute statements" make it easier for you to criticize me than wishy-washy ones btw, so they help a critical discussion along. They're indicative of the opposite of an "absolute inability for dialog" (which was a bit rude, don't you think?).

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@Soph8B

Maybe the criteria I use are wrong. Concretely, you could convince me that animals are conscious if you show me some animal behavior that could not possibly have been preprogrammed by evolution.

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@Soph8B

We both know what we're talking about when the talk about the problem of consciousness, so we don't need a definition. Some problems with definitions here: youtube.com/watch?v=fgeMEr…

My mind is not made up. There are ways you could convince me I am wrong that I could tell you.

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@KennethCassel @SimonHoiberg @SlipApp

Looks cool. I don't get the pricing overview though: slip.so/#pricing

I pay you $19 a month and 10% of my sales, or you pay me that? (I hope the former!)

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@Soph8B

I guess Sam Harris' "what it feels like to be something." But definitions aren't important.

More importantly, there are criteria for consciousness, and animals don't meet them.

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@jasssnaj @Facebook

for sure

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One of the major problems with Covid is all the horrible inequity it's caused. We have two classes now: ppl with and w/o Covid. We need to infect ppl ASAP before the divide between the haves and have nots gets out of control. The top 1% can afford to share some of their Covid!

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@DorfGinger @Facebook

"It's just a few minutes and you're healthy so you can spare them, surely this is important enough or do you not care about the sick?"

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@DorfGinger @Facebook

A prominent reminder of what many consider a "killer virus" at the top of the newsfeed. Trying to get even healthy people to worry. Guilt-tripping them into participating in the survey. "Can you spare a few minutes [so your grandmother doesn't die you healthy piece of shit]?"

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RT @elonmusk:
@cleantechnica

I am accumulating resources to help make life multiplanetary & extend the light of consciousness to the stars

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RT @JanosSzucs7:
@micsolana

probably was pretty stoked about Sputnik though

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RT @micsolana:
bernie sanders literally saw the first moon landing and thought “meh”

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RT @micsolana:
neil armstrong: “... one giant leap for mankind”

bernie sanders: incoherent grumbling

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No, I can't, @Facebook. Now stop fearmongering. https://t.co/clMtvaRfjp

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@MonicaGandhi9 @ThomasEWoods

Don’t wait for permission to interact normally with humans again. Just do it.

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Spot on. Typical static-society thinking. twitter.com/micsolana/stat…

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@SavvasStephnds @SimonHoiberg

“code is indeed better if it explains itself” doesn’t conflict with what Simon is saying.

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@haysstanford

  1. (inc i)
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@MarcusCVance

Please block me then.

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@jameshamblin @codinghorror

Doubtful that the COVID death number is that high.

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RT @nomadcapitalist:
The places you can't go.
wsj.com/articles/the-p…

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Just found out that you can use the $ heroku open command with an optional path. `$ heroku open /foo/bar' will open your app at path '/foo/bar'!

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RT @TribalSpaceCat:
Scientists: if we don’t act fast, the ice caps will only keep getting hotter

The ice caps: https://t.co/cM4dpJJ7vA

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@ANothlich

Und verkauft dies als Schulden, die man von Andersdenkenden einfordern könne.

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RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Britannia is a kind of Roman goddess who personifies Britain, so it's fitting that she should be depicted as Black.

M…

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This cat does not recognize itself in the mirror but sees another cat.

And yet, I don’t think those who consider self-recognition evidence of consciousness would say this cat isn’t conscious.

So should self-recognition even make a difference to them?

instagram.com/reel/CMYBxcXp3…

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@CerebralWisdom

... but private companies could do it better.

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@antariksh_17 @SimonHoiberg

Didn't say it was easy. But it's definitely worth trying.

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@SimonHoiberg

Better to find something that’s in demand and in line with your preferences. You’ll be happier and will also build better products as a result.

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@SimonHoiberg

Your own preference is very important, because going against it will make you miserable.

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RT @astupple:
Are AI safety concerns philosophically sound?
@Conjecture_Mag
is hosting a debate b/t economist
@JimDMiller
and software…

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More buggy animal programming:

instagram.com/reel/CMPXAtyn0…

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@Soph8B

There are very good explanations saying that animals are not, in fact, conscious, and that humans are, in fact, infinitely special compared to all other animals. And it has nothing to do with religion.

Have you read David's books?

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Challenge accepted: h22jy.csb.app

(Well, a web app, not a smartphone app, but nvm that.) twitter.com/DavidDeutschOx…

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@all_incorrect @DavidDeutschOxf

Design does not need a (conscious or unconscious) designer!

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@all_incorrect @DavidDeutschOxf

Assuming that animals aren't conscious, they can still contain shape-recognition algorithms created by biological evolution, which itself isn't a conscious process. So nowhere in that chain is anything conscious and yet you still end up with a working shape-recognition algo.

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@all_incorrect @DavidDeutschOxf

It does hold water because the point is that shape-recognition algorithms are not evidence of consciousness on the part of the "shape recognizer."

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@dvassallo

Very cool. Been meaning to get into woodworking myself, glad to be reminded.

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I just found out that there’s non-GMO salt. But there no genes in salt, are there? Can anyone explain to me how that makes sense?

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@SmartBeta1 @DavidDeutschOxf @ME_McCullough @HumanProgress

That life sometimes throws challenges at us unexpectedly does not legitimize coercing people. There's an underlying equivocation of two different things called "force." See blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/libertar…

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RT @gleason_colum:
The American Rescue Plan will mean the government is taking our money and giving us a small portion back. It means pulli…

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RT @DavidDeutschOxf:
@ME_McCullough @HumanProgress

Intentionally imposing dilemmas on people without their informed consent is immoral. Doi…

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@Kaiwingchun

Yes, but also: Bayesian epistemology is not just less general and accurate, but entirely false. daviddeutsch.org.uk/2014/08/simple…

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It's not "most scientists." Popper's epistemology is hugely underrated. And his epistemology is about so much more than falsification. twitter.com/sapinker/statu…

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New blog post: "Teachers Who 'Take Children Seriously'"

blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/teachers…

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@cgbessellieu

First, it means that we will have solved important philosophical problems, including how the mind works and (maybe) what qualia are.

Second, medical science would be replaced by hardware engineering, then there's effective immortality, cheap, safe, and ultra-fast space travel...

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@ks445599 @ella_hoeppner @cgbessellieu

The best I've heard so far is Deutsch's argument that cosmological theories have been changing so frequently lately that we shouldn't plan our future according to the latest one.

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If you're a web developer looking for projects, check if your favorite apps have a web frontend yet. If not, chances are they'll want one soon. Reach out to them and offer value.

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RT @DavidDeutschOxf:
And anyway, what did you expect them to secrete instead, dioxygen difluoride? FOOF.

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RT @TheAtlasSociety:
It's Easy To Make It Rain When Others' Dollars Are Being Used Instead Of Your Own... #ShrinkGovernment #Liberty #AynRa…

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@Bobby_Network @Deframing1

kotzgrün trifft es gut

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@Michael_RA @crit_rat @RadioBabe @cgbessellieu

It will once we create it.

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The WEF has lost its fucking mind. twitter.com/Bobby_Network/…

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RT @DailySignal:
“Against which races do you harbor racial bias?”

@SenTomCotton questioned President Biden’s DOJ nominee Vanita Gupta abo…

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RT @MrJonasDanner:
Du findest einen Lockdown gut? -> Bleib daheim.
Du magst hohe Steuern? -> Zahl hohe Steuern.
Du findest Autos böse? -> F…

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@KennethCassel

Crushing it!

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@tomhyde_

I started by reading “HTML for Dummies.” Then learned CSS and a bit of JavaScript, then Ruby. Treehouse has good courses: teamtreehouse.com

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This is why—and I'll say it again—"learn to code" is good advice. twitter.com/eligarlo/statu…

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These are the people who think they're tolerant and loving. twitter.com/STLBlake19/sta…

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@crit_rat

Reminds me of how people try to justify coercing children by saying “sometimes they’ll have to do things they don’t want to later in life and this is how they learn how to do that.” They’re equivocating two completely different meanings of the word “force.” :(

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RT @nixcraft:
Experts found three new 15-year-old bugs in a Linux kernel module. These 15-year-old flaws in Linux kernel could be exploited…

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@TextSkizzen

Ja aber ist es nicht auch doppelt gemoppelt?

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@TextSkizzen

Wie steht’s um “darauf folgend”?

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A nice illustration of Gombrich’s “making comes before matching.” Decide one tower is in the foreground, and you’ll really see it being in the foreground. twitter.com/peterglaser/st…

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@SimonHoiberg @devinDford

That’s the spirit.

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RT @RepThomasMassie:
This is true every time people let politicians have more power: https://t.co/rF2rk63HsZ

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@kareem_carr

Have you heard of Karl Popper? This may be of interest: the-rathouse.com/Intro-Philos-S…

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@reason_wit_me @mgoldingmd

Nice. I have been thinking for a while now that many doctors don't explain their diagnoses and treatment plans enough. They say "cool your foot twice a day for five days." Okay, but why? And how will I know if I'm doing something counterproductive without an explanation?

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@BernieSanders

There is no contradiction as both approaches reduce government influence, which is what that's really about.

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RT @dchackethal:
Prescient lines re the pandemic:

"The prophetic approach can see only what one might do to postpone disaster, namely impr…

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RT @reasonisfun:
🎬 video: Internal Meta Discussion

How trying to fight back internet flame wars lead to the discovery of a super useful wa…

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The parasite is growing. twitter.com/GavinNewsom/st…

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The LA Times now losing it, too. Or maybe they had already lost it and I hadn't noticed. https://t.co/T87x6ZxVdR

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@Astro_Soichi

Like from a movie! Amazing

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RT @Astro_Soichi:
#ドラゴンが #日本列島 の上を飛んでいく #SpaceX #Dragon flies over #Japan night. https://t.co/vXNIiJewLf

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RT @OptimoPrincipi:
Mural of Michelangelo's 'David' at the pinnacle of the marble quarries of Carrara. Michelangelo crafted his Renaissance…

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@SeanBallard @libertascasii2

I wasn't joking. dark.patriot wrote she "desperately didn't want to" run but did anyway. In other words, she coerced herself. In your tweet you wrote you like people who reject coercion.

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@SeanBallard @libertascasii2

Food for thought: doesn't this conflict with what you wrote here: twitter.com/SeanBallard/st…

?

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RT @realchrisrufo:
SCOOP: A University of Dayton professor is now ranking law schools according to their "total whiteness"—and demanding th…

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RT @johanknorberg:
@AmirPars_

The political response is to remove regulatory barriers to competition from other platforms and sellers. The…

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RT @joergnicht:
Two towers.
#Berlin https://t.co/a9Dkosu03C

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RT @HumanProgress:
The world's population has grown 145% since 1960, but income has grown by 183%.

More people equals more ideas, more inn…

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Isn't it generous of them to allow us to do something our constitution already provides and protects?

twitter.com/i/events/13689…

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"The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

What a great description of what seems to motivate so many of government policies. twitter.com/GeneSohoForum/…

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@naparker @ewarren

To everyone who liked the above tweet: to be clear, I do not condone what those data represent. I think taxation is an abomination.

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RT @liberty_deity:
Even if lockdowns and wearing masks worked, forcing people to do it would still be wrong.

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