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@B_Vanderhaegen

LOL yea. Malice solved this by immediately dropping the term "anarchy" in favor of Brook's preferred term "voluntarism" and its definition. Very Popperian. Didn't work anyway, showing that Brook's move was just defensive and Malice's usage of terms wasn't wrong.

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@__adamjohnson_

Maybe. He can address physicists specifically in addition to a general audience, that doesn’t really change my argument because he still gets to impress laymen anyway.

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

One need not present specific solutions to every problem in question for the claim that problems are soluble to be valid.

But generally speaking, people persuade each other all the time. They make arguments, point out contradictions, offer better alternatives, etc.

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

Game theory also assumes a fixed set of choices and outcomes. But as I’ve said, people are creative: they can create new outcomes and new avenues to achieve them.

Game theory fundamentally views people as automata mechanically making decisions. Which is gross (and false).

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

People’s choices aren’t fixed to what some economists think their Rational Choice should be. You can convince people that, say, free riding is wrong and then fewer of them will do it.

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@__adamjohnson_

So considering this and also keeping in mind how obscurely he talks on his show all the time, also to a general audience, I find that overwhelming evidence that his paper is meant to obscure.

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@__adamjohnson_

Well, it’s like I write in the comment I linked. To elaborate: he explicitly distances himself from academia, then refers to his paper as a work of entertainment. I don’t think that means there are inside jokes, but that it’s meant for a broad audience, like ~all entertainment.

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@__adamjohnson_

Yes, I agree that that falls under obscurantism. And that maybe he’s not doing it deliberately. But I’m guessing you underestimate how prevalent obscurantism is in academia, even when subject-matter experts address each other.

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

Yes, the American government still employs much coercion, unfortunately. But in time, the amount of coercion can be reduced by creating more knowledge.

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@girlie_mac

However, if there's a diffing tool I don't know about that can diff words, not just lines, and visually accommodate this without messing up the flow of the writing, then it could work great.

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@girlie_mac

Sadly, using git for writing doesn't work well because lines get much, much longer than in code (every paragraph is a single line), which obscures the diffs.

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

But in principle, that problem is also soluble without coercion, like all problems. The US has solved it, for example. Other countries haven't.

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

If a society doesn't know how to defend itself without coercing its members, it can be argued that a draft is better than death.

But the example is a bit flawed because the evil situation the society and its members are put in is caused by foreign coercion in the first place.

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@FallingIntoFilm @tomhyde_

Yes. And it is written for the general public, as Weinstein points out himself. See blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/a-compre…

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@__adamjohnson_

It is written for the general public. See blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/a-compre…

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

To clarify, yes coercion is worse, no you don't just live with it. You find other ways of dealing with it that are better than the status quo.

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

For aggressive coercion: no. Problems are soluble. Create new outcomes and solutions and try more persuasion.

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Brook should have conceded the point. He made a conjectured, Malice immediately offered a refutation. Malice was right and Brook knew it. But I'm guessing Brook feels he has too much riding on looking in the right to people—apparently more than he has riding on pursuing truth.

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Later, Brook (paraphrase): "Anarchy can't work because the guy with the biggest gun always wins."
Malice (paraphrase): "Then how come we didn't win in Vietnam?"
Brook, stuttering: "Well, you're taking things out of context."

Disappointing performance by Brook.

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Brook: “The only way to achieve a better world is through government.”

That could have been said by a communist.

youtube.com/watch?v=Pl3x4G…

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

Dunno why you put persuasion in quotes, but the answer is "no". Persuasion can always work, but there is no guarantee that it will.

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@Paul_B2000 @_Islamicat

Is haram

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@_Islamicat @AnnSummers

Is doing god's work this ginger brother.

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RT @DaFeid:
24/x
Danke Kathrin Osterode 🙏

#allesdichtmachen
#niewiederaufmachen
#lockdownfürimmer

allesdichtmachen.de https://t.co/TK…

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RT @DaFeid:
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Danke Karoline Teska 🙏

#allesdichtmachen
#niewiederaufmachen
#lockdownfürimmer

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RT @DaFeid:
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Danke Inka Friedrich 🙏

#allesdichtmachen
#niewiederaufmachen
#lockdownfürimmer

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RT @DaFeid:
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Danke Claudia Rippe 🙏

#allesdichtmachen
#niewiederaufmachen
#lockdownfürimmer

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RT @DaFeid:
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Danke Christine Sommer 🙏

#allesdichtmachen
#niewiederaufmachen
#lockdownfürimmer

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RT @DaFeid:
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Danke Cem Ali Gültekin 🙏
#allesdichtmachen
#niewiederaufmachen
#lockdownfürimmer

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RT @DaFeid:
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Danke Felix Klare 🙏

#allesdichtmachen #niewiederaufmachen #lockdownfürimmer

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RT @DaFeid:
12/x
Danke Pasquale Aleardi 🙏

#allesdichtmachen
#niewiederaufmachen
#lockdownfürimmer

allesdichtmachen.de https://t.co/BP…

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RT @dchackethal:
@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

Problems arise when too many group members choose to pursue individual profit

LOL those pesky…

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

Persuasion is always possible. And even if it weren’t, that wouldn’t explain why coercion would be morally okay. Nor is it okay when one fails to persuade.

One has two options, really: persuade others or leave them alone.

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

That’s presupposing that one knows what’s best for others. Which is highly problematic.

When one fails to persuade, it needn’t be because the other person is being irrational or something. It can also be because one sucks at persuading.

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

Problems arise when too many group members choose to pursue individual profit

LOL those pesky group members never going with the program!

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

I recall that article. Maybe we have spoken before. The strings "persua" and "convinc" appear 0 times in the article, so I'm guessing the article doesn't address what I was saying, nor does it refute the notion that persuasion can solve problems. Or does it?

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@ewarren

At whose expense and with whose consent?

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

To be clear, you don't think persuasion works because it can lead to free-riding? Or you're attributing that problem to taxation?

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

You wrote: "Perhaps you missed the part about ending a pandemic." That sounds to me like you think I don't want the pandemic solved.

Do you think taxes/force are the only way to solve the pandemic, or do you think persuading people could work?

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

That doesn’t imply that I don’t want the pandemic solved.

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@Evolving_Ego @ashishkjha

What did I say that led you to think I didn’t know ending the pandemic would be desirable?

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@TripThomasGames @MarsCuriosity

Doubtful it would be that far. I'm guessing it's the much closer faint pixel, at around 5 o'clock.

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Beautiful picture, but ironic that the very technology that leads the way to escaping from this cruel rock one day spreads memes to forever preserve that rock. It claims we're all "connected by earth", although its very presence on Mars is evidence of the opposite. twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/…

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@ashishkjha

Who’s “we”?

If you’re allowed to purchase large quantities of the vaccine, do so, then donate them.

But I have the impression that you’re not. Meaning the government would need to do it. Meaning everyone would have to pay for it, even against their will.

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@AfJyag @disclosetv

Where taxes are lower. @nomadcapitalist would know better.

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@disclosetv

Great way to cause people to leave.

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Before asking “how can we”, shouldn’t we ask “should we”? twitter.com/royalsociety/s…

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@AnnikaJoeres @M_Hundhausen @HolzheuStefan

Aus Ihren Tweets wird nicht klar, ob die Zahlen nun 36 Dezibel zu hoch oder zu niedrig sind. Nur anhand der Bemerkung, dass es Gegnern in die Hände gespielt hat, kann man erahnen, dass sie 36 zu hoch waren.

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@Kaiwingchun

Correct, but we need an explanation to say either way.

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@mgechev

I thought number inputs don’t even let you type values that are outside the specified range?

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RT @Replit:
This is the most creative personal website I've ever seen 😍

It injects CSS into the page as it's written: https://t.co/WgS99uC…

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@Kaiwingchun

Ok but within those constraints there could still be infinitely many ways.

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Why couldn’t there be infinitely many ways to make an eye? twitter.com/RichardDawkins…

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Holding past generations' mistakes against current generations. A nasty result of collectivism. twitter.com/ElefentJames/s…

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@webdevMason

In other words, there's a problem we don't yet know how to solve. Is that really an argument against libertarianism?

Related: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/libertar…

and blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/libertar…

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Mir ist gerade aufgefallen, dass "zusammenschreiben" und "getrennt schreiben" beide auf sich selbst zutreffen. Sie sind also homolog. Eine schoene Eigenschaft der deutschen Sprache!

#rechtschreibung #deutsch

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The second-handedness level is over 9000. twitter.com/lillianyoung/s…

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RT @dchackethal:
@angela4LNCChair

Would it have mattered if public opinion on lockdowns had been overwhelmingly negative? Would Newsom have…

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@angela4LNCChair

Would it have mattered if public opinion on lockdowns had been overwhelmingly negative? Would Newsom have cared?

Same logic as when parents impose screen times against their children's will: "They don't know what's best for them, I do."

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@_jayphelps @Iterator

Very handy for sending form fields over a socket or ajax.

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@_jayphelps @Iterator

IIRC you can also use it to turn FormData into an object.

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Note the official-sounding, proper language they're using to normalize this stuff. Also note their facial expressions of regret here and there, as if to say that they're so sorry to do this, but it's for 'the right reasons.' They're committing evil with good intentions. twitter.com/ComicDaveSmith…

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@brbascript

"Woah, you're a chatty Kathy today."

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RT @MrAndyNgo:
He was white, so no need to riot.

The @Oregonian, Portland’s paper of record. archive.is/2021.04.16-194… https://t.co/7PTOxMom…

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@Dudenverlag @TextSkizzen

Wochenend:in?

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@snipperbytes @nixcraft

The foreach also looks a bit like stack-safe tail recursion.

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@Not_the_Bee

Unclear to whom "him" refers.

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RT @Lukewearechange:
FAUCI: "I don't look at this as a liberty thing."

JORDAN: "Well, that's obvious!" https://t.co/XqPot9QIqj

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@mgoldingmd @ChristleNwora

Have you tried Tillamook? I didn't know vanilla could be this good. Highly recommended: tillamook.com/products/ice-c…

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RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Initially one feels an enormous wave of happiness. One is complying with the government's wishes! One is accepted by s…

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RT @paulg:
@kimmytaylor

It has died at many times and places. They are for that reason times and places you don't want to be.

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@brbascript

Sounds like Saul?

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If you want to give minorities money, just do it. Why force others to do the same? twitter.com/nowthisnews/st…

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@mynameisChesto @BennyChugg @DavidDeutschOxf @DorfGinger

Brains are made of atoms. And those atoms had to exist before brains existed so that brains could be constructed by evolution in the first place, i.e. before anyone could in principal perceive atoms.

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@mynameisChesto @BennyChugg @DavidDeutschOxf @DorfGinger

The whole "does a tree fall if nobody's around to see it falling" is an anti-realist fallacy. It also strikes me as a stolen concept because the misconception presupposes the existence of the tree it then denies.

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@mynameisChesto @BennyChugg @DavidDeutschOxf @DorfGinger

In order:

I don’t know what you mean by “quanta.”

Yes. And we currently don’t perceive primality either btw.

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@BennyChugg @DavidDeutschOxf @DorfGinger @mynameisChesto

I'm guessing yes and yes, because without humans there would still be, say, solar systems with a prime number of planets, molecules with a prime number of atoms, etc.

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RT @realchrisrufo:
SCOOP: Santa Clara County Office of Education denounces the United States as a "parasitic system" based on the "invasion…

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@JesseNichols

"Popperia"

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@CerebralWisdom

Maybe something for @JoeBiden?

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Wearing a mask while playing the trombone... 🤦‍♂️

instagram.com/reel/CNoPBL-Af…

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Somebody should install a big light source on the moon that we can see from earth.

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It's complicated, but I agree with the sentiment. twitter.com/LPTexas/status…

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RT @jh3yy:
"The Impossible Checkbox 🐻"

Now with sound! 🔊

⚒️ @reactjs && @greensock
💻 codepen.io/jh3y/pen/LYNZw… via @CodePen https://t.co/…

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@TSJPhillips @diemauerthewall

Da seh ich rot.

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@DavidDeutschOxf @mynameisChesto

What makes qualia different from abstractions?

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@toadmeister

If it was before the lockdown was imposed, how does the word “but” make sense there? I don’t think the first and last statement have conflicting implications.

Lockdown proponents can argue that it was only a peak because of lockdown.

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@CerebralWisdom

Should have said “freedom”.

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@ReachChristofer

I am told by a doctor that the part about vaccines not protecting from infection is wrong.

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RT @TheBabylonBee:
'It Is Still Not Safe To Go Outside,' Says Fauci's Head In A Jar In Year 2739
babylonbee.com/news/it-is-sti…

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RT @ReachChristofer:
Interesting 🤔

”Is the science of public health a religion now, or is science supposed to be about debate? If someone…

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