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 @dvassallo:
Forget about becoming something. Just do stuff.
Don't write to become a writer. Write when you feel like writing. Applies t…
More buggy animal programming: instagram.com/reel/CMZGIfRgp…
The squirrel’s mouth is completely filled with a peanut. Nonetheless, it tries to gnaw on a hazelnut, but its teeth can’t reach the hazelnut. It just keeps going for a while. The squirrel has no idea what it’s doing.
RT @dvassallo:
Why you should reconsider the steady paycheck. From Antifragile: https://t.co/G2bLY2kh4G
It's because the interpreter/compiler (depending on your JS implementation) reads { foo, bar } as shorthand and expands it to { foo: foo, bar: bar }. It's a shorthand for object notation. Its introduction was pretty recent as I recall.
It might be good to explain to ppl why that works.
“[...] it is expected that parents would have the final say [in vaccinating their children] in any case”
In other words, parents could force their children to take the vaccine.
The article is all science, zero morals.
Counter the advertisement there is a cancelation fee in the millions.
RT @Bobby_Network:
A new snack-series has been released by @wef to ensure proper stakeholder capitalism-metabolism for the future.
𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚒…
Very cool. Reminds me of Brett Victor. twitter.com/elzr/status/13…
@MynonaZwo @NormalP36820428 @TextSkizzen
Stimmt, gute Idee—ich liege vermutlich falsch. Es sei denn, "welche" hat nur "meine" Bedeutung, wenn es im Plural verwendet wird.
@MynonaZwo @NormalP36820428 @TextSkizzen
Kann aber gut sein, dass das nur meine Interpretation des Worts "welche" ist.
@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.
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.
@KennethCassel @SimonHoiberg @SlipApp
Idea to get more users to sign up: only charge $19 a month once they start making money.
"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?).
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.
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.
@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!)
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.
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!
@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?"
@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]?"
I am accumulating resources to help make life multiplanetary & extend the light of consciousness to the stars
probably was pretty stoked about Sputnik though
RT @micsolana:
bernie sanders literally saw the first moon landing and thought “meh”
RT @micsolana:
neil armstrong: “... one giant leap for mankind”
bernie sanders: incoherent grumbling
No, I can't, @Facebook. Now stop fearmongering. https://t.co/clMtvaRfjp
Don’t wait for permission to interact normally with humans again. Just do it.
Spot on. Typical static-society thinking. twitter.com/micsolana/stat…
“code is indeed better if it explains itself” doesn’t conflict with what Simon is saying.
Doubtful that the COVID death number is that high.
RT @nomadcapitalist:
The places you can't go.
wsj.com/articles/the-p…
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'!
RT @TribalSpaceCat:
Scientists: if we don’t act fast, the ice caps will only keep getting hotter
The ice caps: https://t.co/cM4dpJJ7vA
Und verkauft dies als Schulden, die man von Andersdenkenden einfordern könne.
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Britannia is a kind of Roman goddess who personifies Britain, so it's fitting that she should be depicted as Black.
M…
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?
... but private companies could do it better.
Didn't say it was easy. But it's definitely worth trying.
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.
Your own preference is very important, because going against it will make you miserable.
RT @astupple:
Are AI safety concerns philosophically sound?
@Conjecture_Mag
is hosting a debate b/t economist
@JimDMiller
and software…
More buggy animal programming:
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?
Challenge accepted: h22jy.csb.app
(Well, a web app, not a smartphone app, but nvm that.) twitter.com/DavidDeutschOx…
@all_incorrect @DavidDeutschOxf
Design does not need a (conscious or unconscious) designer!
@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.
@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."
Very cool. Been meaning to get into woodworking myself, glad to be reminded.
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?
@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…
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…
RT @DavidDeutschOxf:
@ME_McCullough @HumanProgress
Intentionally imposing dilemmas on people without their informed consent is immoral. Doi…
Yes, but also: Bayesian epistemology is not just less general and accurate, but entirely false. daviddeutsch.org.uk/2014/08/simple…
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…
New blog post: "Teachers Who 'Take Children Seriously'"
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...
@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.
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.
RT @DavidDeutschOxf:
And anyway, what did you expect them to secrete instead, dioxygen difluoride? FOOF.
RT @TheAtlasSociety:
It's Easy To Make It Rain When Others' Dollars Are Being Used Instead Of Your Own... #ShrinkGovernment #Liberty #AynRa…
@Michael_RA @crit_rat @RadioBabe @cgbessellieu
It will once we create it.
The WEF has lost its fucking mind. twitter.com/Bobby_Network/…
RT @DailySignal:
“Against which races do you harbor racial bias?”
@SenTomCotton questioned President Biden’s DOJ nominee Vanita Gupta abo…
RT @MrJonasDanner:
Du findest einen Lockdown gut? -> Bleib daheim.
Du magst hohe Steuern? -> Zahl hohe Steuern.
Du findest Autos böse? -> F…
I started by reading “HTML for Dummies.” Then learned CSS and a bit of JavaScript, then Ruby. Treehouse has good courses: teamtreehouse.com
This is why—and I'll say it again—"learn to code" is good advice. twitter.com/eligarlo/statu…
These are the people who think they're tolerant and loving. twitter.com/STLBlake19/sta…
@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.” :(
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…
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…
RT @RepThomasMassie:
This is true every time people let politicians have more power: https://t.co/rF2rk63HsZ
Have you heard of Karl Popper? This may be of interest: the-rathouse.com/Intro-Philos-S…
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?
There is no contradiction as both approaches reduce government influence, which is what that's really about.
RT @dchackethal:
Prescient lines re the pandemic:
"The prophetic approach can see only what one might do to postpone disaster, namely impr…