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@karlosbubi @P4blo0711

Und natuerlich halte ich Abstand von denen. Das Problem ist ja, dass viele es fuer notwendig halten, diejenigen, die nicht gendern wollen, zu mobben. Daran erkennt man doch, dass Gendern nichts mit "Inklusion" oder was auch immer zu tun hat, sondern mit Gruppenzwang.

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@karlosbubi @P4blo0711

OK. "Von Menschen die Sie mobben" ist mehrdeutig. "von denen Sie gemobbt werden" waere klarer gewesen.

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@karlosbubi @P4blo0711

Nein, “Sie” war das Subjekt, also ich, da Sie mir vorgeworfen haben, Leute zu mobben. “Menschen” (der Bekanntenkreis) war Objekt.

Dass Sie es hinbekommen haben, einen Satz ohne Gendern zu schreiben, ist ja schön, das bedeutet aber nicht, dass Gendern nicht umständlich ist.

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@MichaelPSenger

Ekelhaft

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I agree that tax-payer money (?) shouldn’t go to corporations. But I’ll still say “we did it” when Musk or Bezos send someone to Mars. I’ll still celebrate it as an American accomplishment. twitter.com/SenSanders/sta…

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@karlosbubi @P4blo0711

Uebrigens erkenne ich in Ihrem Tweet einige Probleme, auch wenn er "Gender neutral" ist. Und beim Gendern geht's doch gar nicht um den Bekanntenkreis, sondern um den Angesprochenen?

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@karlosbubi @P4blo0711

Ich mobbe niemanden. Aber wer nicht "gendern" will, wird eben gemobbt.

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@P4blo0711

Du wolltest also nicht sagen, dass es deiner Meinung nach keinen Sinn macht, wenn sich Leute uebers Gendern beschweren, aber die viel kompliziertere Schreibweise von Namen akzeptieren? Du wolltest nicht sagen, dass sie sich nicht so anstellen sollen, wenn es ums Gendern geht?

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@karlosbubi @P4blo0711

Man zahlt soziale Kosten (Hohn, Ausgrenzung etc) wenn man nicht Gendern will. S. die Reaktionen zu meinem Tweet.

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@HeiHexe @karlosbubi @P4blo0711

Bekannt:innen* Kreis:innen+

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While the law should indeed not be justified by the will of the majority, replacing that will with an "eternal foundation" is to trade one authority for another.

The law should come, fallibly and provisionally, from good explanations.

See blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/objectiv… twitter.com/CerebralWisdom…

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@realchrisrufo @TuckerCarlson

You're crushing it. Godspeed.

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@P4blo0711

Witz hin oder her, du hast dich also nicht fuers "Gendern" ausgesprochen? Und willst nicht, dass diejenigen, die deinen Tweet geliked haben, das so interpretieren?

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RT @realchrisrufo:
As I told @TuckerCarlson: If our three-star generals don't have the courage to stand up to a team of diversity trainers,…

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@dvassallo

Things can’t be proven false either. And even in math they can’t be Proven False in the epistemological sense. Our knowledge of math is as fallible as any other knowledge.

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@P4blo0711

Und an der Grammatik und Rechtschreibung der Namen ist nichts falsch. Ist nur Geschmacksache. Und vor allem zahlt man keine sozialen Kosten, wenn man seinen Namen nicht auf eine bestimme Art und Weise schreibt. Wenn man nicht “gendert”, schon.

Der Vergleich hinkt völlig.

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@P4blo0711

Gendern müsste man aber viel öfter.

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RT @BuckSexton:
Guy walks into gym, mask on

Sees me- no mask. Takes his mask off.

We go about our workouts like normal humans who aren’…

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@manekinekko

JSON isn’t pronounced the same as Jason. More like Jasawn.

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@WorriedDenizen @jchalupa_ @tvetera @DavidDeutschOxf

Me too. That one develops a personality over time doesn’t mean one can’t have a personality at an early age.

Could it be that genes provide some starting point and then the individual takes over?

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@WorriedDenizen @jchalupa_ @tvetera @DavidDeutschOxf

Isn't a personality something one develops over time, rather than something one is born with?

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@tvetera @DavidDeutschOxf

Or there's no heritability of IQ at all, proclivity or aptitude. Faithful transmission of memes across generations can fill the gap and explain the apparent "heritability".

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@patrickc

Shouldn’t Meredith be blue and Powdur.me gray? In the animation it looks like Powdur is buying their own product.

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RT @dockaurG:
Origin of virus & ongoing coverage re lab leak are a distraction. Real scandal of our lifetime: how western world succumbed t…

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@tibelchior @diemauerthewall

From what I've heard second-hand from people who've seen before the war it was better architecturally than today. Must have been gorgeous.

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@joules1998 @andreas_zeise @drumheadberlin

Ich habe nie gesagt, dass das Zwingen zum Gendern ok sei. Ist es auch nicht.

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@ks445599

I’ll call you Sir Kenneth from now on.

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@tibelchior @diemauerthewall

And as depressing as ever.

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RT @Tomi_Tapio:
It's like a forehead/throat tattoo reading "I'm better than you" twitter.com/ScaryMommy/sta…

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@andreas_zeise @drumheadberlin

Dem stimme ich zu. Das bedeutet aber nicht, dass Gendern verboten werden soll. Man kann z. B. eine Kultur schaffen, in der man sich uebers Gendern lustig macht. Oder es verabscheut. Etc. Und zwar mit Ueberzeungsarbeit, nicht mit Verboten. Verbote ueberzeugen niemanden!

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LinkedIn has added a new feature, allowing you to add your pronouns to your bio.

Here are mine. It's so wonderful LinkedIn is now inclusive of my identity. I finally feel accepted.

What pronouns will you choose?

#diversity #inclusionmatters #pizza https://t.co/3F5xcOhpp1

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@drumheadberlin

Ich bin zwar gegen diesen Gender-Quatsch, aber es zu verbieten, scheint dann doch zu viel. Lass Leute reden und schreiben, wie sie wollen. Man kann sie ja davon ueberzeugen, dass Gendern Quatsch ist.

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Dehumanizing the enemy only serves to further misunderstand them.

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Part of the mistake the left makes is to think that the enemy does not have his reasons for thinking a certain way. That geopolitics, not ideas, cause behavior. It's dehumanizing.

When people do things, it's generally because they think it's good. They act on their ideas.

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That evidence is not available when we dream because we don't use our senses when we sleep. That's why dreams are fuzzy.

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If our model of reality is a waking dream, why is part of the reality around us so much crisper and clearer to see than the images in our dreams? It has to do with the evidence of our senses: it helps us error correct our model of the world around us.

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Good illustration of wokesters not taking the enemy seriously. Like when jihadists literally explain they hate us first and foremost because we don't believe in their prophet, but leftists still say it's really our geopolitics. twitter.com/WokeTemple/sta…

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@Tomi_Tapio

Sounds more like "thanks politicians"?

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@bnielson01

From what I hear there are still plenty of deaths to go around, especially in poorer countries where people can't just stop their "non-essential" business for a few weeks without dying.

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@paulg

Note that school kept him from working on his story.

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@amitcc

If it's true that qualia are a special kind of knowledge then even a theory of qualia won't let you predict what they feel like. Just like a theory of creativity won't let you predict tomorrow's discoveries. And just like neo-Darwinism won't let you predict tomorrow's new species

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RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Cutting Black women and Latinas out of the labour force seems kind of racist to be honest. https://t.co/OAMa4sO6dF

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@brbascript

There was an attempt on Pinochet’s life in 1986. Just saying…

Hope we will learn more about Gus in the upcoming season of Better Call Saul.

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We can't predict what new qualia will feel like. Is this a special case of the unpredictability of new knowledge?

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Not someone else's cloud, but my cloud, hell yes. Death and diseases: solved ✅ twitter.com/gptbrooke/stat…

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@2AWisdom

They have been for over a year.

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RT @StuartHumphryes:
London 1944 - this is Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park, during the midst of War. All original colour. https://t.co/6TlhJI6s…

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Ban constipation! twitter.com/2AWisdom/statu…

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@codybaldwin

IIRC from BoI, every fiction that doesn't violate the laws of physics is fact somewhere. So there is at least one universe (or history?) in which Hitler was killed. (Maybe multiple. Maybe infinitely many? Maybe uncountably infinitely many?)

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"True controversial ideas": blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/true-con…

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@rsg @paulg

Not if non-successful people have haters too...

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RT @GregAbbott_TX:
TX is prohibiting mask mandates by gov’t entities.

Starting May 21, local govts attempting to impose mask mandates can…

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@petegrif

Ah – when I say "evolution programmed creativity in us" I don't mean that evolution did that intentionally. The programming is instead a result of mindless natural variation and selection.

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@petegrif

Why didn’t it program it in us?

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“Chinese state employees physically manage the computers.” Yikes twitter.com/OrinKerr/statu…

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@petegrif

It’s like I say in the article: programming creativity must be possible, otherwise evolution couldn’t have programmed it in us.

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@petegrif

Some people think computers can’t be creative but that’s because they don’t understand computational universality.

I think computers can be creative, conscious, have free will, etc. and I’m trying to figure out how to program that.

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@petegrif

Yes.

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@petegrif

I interpreted "But fire that mean that their" to mean "But that doesn't mean that their" but I may be wrong about that...

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@petegrif

Such judges may erroneously come to the conclusion that a program is creative because they're using behavioristic criteria, yes. But an automaton that looks creative still isn't creative.

And just because behavioristic criteria are invalid doesn't mean I ended the debate by fiat

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@petegrif

But you seem a bit annoyed with what I'm writing ("so what", "that's kind of the point") and it sounds like your mind is made up anyway, so...

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@petegrif

I think fun and creativity are intimately related, so much so that creativity is a necessary condition for having fun. It follows that if alpha zero isn't having fun it's not creative. It was meant as a refutation of your view that alpha zero is creative.

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@ewarren

This is so misleading. A few percent of billions is much more than a higher percentage of thousands.

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@Tomi_Tapio

Does the number of people disagreeing with a claim influence whether that claim is true?

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@Tomi_Tapio

Right on. They're all physical (and therefore deterministic).

And this reminds me: since computations are physical processes (Deutsch), and all physical processes are deterministic, all computations must be deterministic.

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@Tomi_Tapio

Indeed. He makes a good case for it. :)

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@Tomi_Tapio

Again, by no means an expert on quantum physics, but from what I've learned from David Deutsch's "The Beginning of Infinity" it would seem that quantum physics is likewise deterministic. Some things look random only from our parochial, single-universe perspective.

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@Tomi_Tapio

OK but what generates the "random" noise? Is it not light?

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@eggheadio

By being a user of the product I'm building.

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@TheAtlasSociety

And that purpose can be fulfilled by private corporations too...

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@Tomi_Tapio

These examples seem to me quasi indeterministic and quasi unpredictable for practical purposes. As in, overwhelmingly much information would be needed to predict the next state. That works fine for some applications, but it's different from being unpredictable in principle.

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@Tomi_Tapio

Re pseudorandom number generators: they're just that—pseudo.

Using photos for that is a cool idea but how light bumps off of objects and enters the phone's camera is deterministic, too...

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@Tomi_Tapio

A place full of cats sounds great, but I think when cats meow is deterministic, too, and so is a collection of cats meowing. Cats have an algorithm in their brains that instructs them to meow when certain conditions are met and that algorithm is deterministic like all others.

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@petegrif

I don't doubt that they play to win, especially elite players, but people can and often do play for fun, which is something alpha zero cannot do.

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@dvassallo

You shouldn't have to pay either one.

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@petegrif

Alpha Zero plays mindlessly. Human chess players do not. They have insights, feelings, interests, etc while they play. And, as David Deutsch has pointed out, they play for fun, and not always to win. Alpha Zero always plays to win. I don't think it can do otherwise.

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@jchalupa_

And yes, my understanding is that quantum computers are vastly faster for some (but not all) algorithms compared to a classical computer. And I think for all other algorithms quantum computers are always at least as fast as classical ones since qcs can simulate ccs.

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@Tomi_Tapio

I don't know what "cattery noise" is, but the other sources I don't think are random...

There's one source of unpredictability (but not randomness) I can think of: the user. But we can't depend on users when building creativity. :)

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@jchalupa_

You're right that there is quantum computation, but I think it also follows the prevailing conception. (I'm no expert on quantum computation by any means, so big grain of salt here.)

This is important so I'll add a comment under my post for clarification.

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RT @dvassallo:
Today the US government will wrap up collecting almost 4 trillion USD in taxes. And if you don’t pay, someone with a gun wil…

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@Tomi_Tapio

Why do you think those are not predictable? Is it the introduction of a random-number generator?

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@AskRamiRustom

Apart from the fact that text strings are easier to remember than numbers, every position in a text string can hold more information than a number (23 instead of 10). So while short strings are possibly gibberish at least some people will have short ones that are meaningful.

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@AskRamiRustom

Then how come we don't see that happening with web domains, emails, user handles etc? If "peter" is taken someone'll take something like "peterinsanfrancisco" instead. Which is still easier to remember than a phone number.

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@jchalupa_

I did point out that there may be other modes of programming and more to computational universality than we currently know.

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@jchalupa_

Mindless automation, not abstraction, but yes.

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@petegrif

I have read about alpha zero. It plays differently from how humans would play.

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@Tomi_Tapio

To be clear, I am aware of "AIs" generating art, which could be considered "creative" in some artistic sense. But they do it mindlessly.

"Creativity" in the epistemological (Popperian) sense I use is what the mind is. And it's kinda orthogonal to art.

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Why isn't there something like DNS for phone numbers yet? So instead of calling "415-555-1234" you could call "peter"?

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@ks445599

So it seems like there are at least two sub-categories within the indeterministic category: probabilistic and creative.

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@ks445599

Nice, yes, it can't imply that, since creativity isn't probabilistic either. One can't assign a probability to the discovery X being made tomorrow because one can't even say what X is yet.

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@ClimateWarrior7

She identifies as a male dog.

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Creativity is unpredictable in principle. Computer programs, on the other hand, are deterministic and predictable. So how could creativity possibly be programmed?

I answer this question in my new blog post: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/two-gues…

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RT @gleason_colum:
Of all the terror organizations—from ISIS to Boko Haram—none have built brand equity faster than Hamas and Palestinian I…

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RT @SpaceX:
Deployment of 52 Starlink satellites confirmed https://t.co/QqPbBl9gBz

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Shouldn't it say "because of lower gun ownership"? twitter.com/2AWisdom/statu…

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How do lockdown supporters explain this? How do they explain that the world hasn't exploded yet even though Texas is open? twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/…

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