Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
My blog about philosophy, coding, and anything else that interests me.
Tweets
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.
But in case I will, you can subscribe via RSS – without a Twitter account. Rationale
Lol. The ‘this hurts me more than it hurts you’ look on her face.
“It’s a pandemic of bureaucracy. It’s not real anymore.” 👏 twitter.com/MichaelPSenger…
RT @reitschuster:
Wer noch Illusionen hat bezüglich Grundgesetz, Grundrechten, Meinungs- und Versammlungsfreiheit in Deutschland 2022, soll…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
We can see from this graph that it was sort of blueish and cold a century ago, whereas now it is actually red hot, whi…
One of the top reasons I left Apple 👇 twitter.com/paulg/status/1…
There’s an episode called ‘Wexler v. Goodman’. A foreshadowing of what’s to come? I think we’re gonna see a darker side to Kim this coming season many didn’t expect. I’m afraid she’s not actually on team McGill.
Kim says herself a major reason she wants to move against Howard is so that the Sandpiper settlement comes in sooner due to Howard’s involvement in the case.
The reason it’s not a mystery to us is that Kim and Jimmy were dating from the start (less so in the beginning but still). It’s introduced as a status quo.
Wachtell tells Kim she could do a whole lot better than Jimmy. And she could, but again, one of the main reasons she dates Jimmy is money. Wachtell doesn’t know about that so it’s a mystery to him why Kim would want to be with Jimmy.
Shortly after Jimmy gets Sandpiper, Kim fantasizes about what ‘we’ (her and Jimmy) would be able to afford once the settlement comes in.
The two main reasons Kim hangs out with Jimmy and helps him when he’s in trouble are 1) she occasionally enjoys rolling around in the dirt with him, 2) wants his money.
Reason she wanted to get married is not spousal confidentiality (that was a lie) but Sandpiper settlement. Jimmy even asks her one time ‘c'mon, really? this guy?’ referring to himself.
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
The whole of New Zealand is now a legalised prostitution zone.
RT @ThomasSowell:
It is amazing how many people still fall for the argument that, if life is unfair, the answer is to turn more money and p…
How do you account for the fact that we don’t see Hamlin in Breaking Bad?
So I have a conjecture for what’s going to happen with Kim (spoilers ahead, sorta). Remember how in Breaking Bad Saul tells Walt that the world is a cruel place? Kim is going to bag half (all?) of that Sandpiper settlement money and will then run off. I’m calling it right now.
I believe it was Michael Malice who said something along the lines of conservatives being progressives driving the speed limit.
That makes conservatives less wrong. But both are wrong about equality being desirable, let alone achievable. twitter.com/i_Do11face/sta…
Alternatively, ‘if we try the same thing again without knowing why it didn’t work last time I have less confidence we’ll make it work this time’. Less fixing but still some.
I could maybe say ‘if we’re gonna try something that’s previously failed we better know why it failed and how to correct that error next time’. But that’s more fixing it than translating it…
What does “it” refer to in your sentence? To what she said or to what one could say in response that won’t cause to her roll her eyes in her thoughts?
Yeah or I’ve been thinking one could come up with a dental example that shows she’s wrong. That way you keep it in the realm of dental stuff on the surface but it’s still really about epistemology.
You don’t need to be a dentist to know that’s not how that works. But you can’t start discussing epistemology with your dentist either because odds are (pun intended) the dentist will consider that off topic. I know of no solution to that problem.
Was reminded today of how important epistemology is in everyday life. Went to dentist with toothache. She said retrying a previously failed procedure lowers its chance of success to between 70 and 80%.
RT @aginnt:
As Austria becomes the first modern nation to mandate the jab, Austrians gather to protest this weekend. pic.twitter.com/gUjKgbHNah
I like how he skips a syllable: “reasably”
RT @jreichelt:
Ich stehe hier im Zug der @DB_Bahn , direkt am eisernen Vorhang des Corona-Regel-Wahnsinns: Wo mein linker Fuß ist (im Abtei…
“We use cookies to give you di best online experience. Abeg let us know if you gree to all od dif cookies dem.”
It’s really the only way to tackle the climate crisis and lead the path to a sustainable economy. Eating worms, too. twitter.com/ManicCannibal/…
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
Great typo reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/rCXWB8qDrJ
My podcast will continue to be available on Soundcloud for a few more weeks but I recommend listening on my blog instead. You can also leave comments on episodes on my blog.
I have moved my podcast from Soundcloud to my blog: blog.dennishackethal.com/podcasts/artif…
There you can subscribe and also find links to Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Your listening experience on those platforms remains unaffected.
I vaguely recall this being the case even before the pandemic started.
I’m no expert on these methods but I think you mean to say that ‘size’ runs a COUNT query if the records are NOT loaded.
From apidock.com/rails/ActiveRe…:
If the collection has been already loaded size and length are equivalent.
RT @diemauerthewall:
Aerial view of divided Berlin, looking over Saint Thomas Church in Kreuzberg, across the Berlin Wall to the East, 1981…
RT @aginnt:
Eisenach, Germany marches and stands strong.
pic.twitter.com/1VhBu7V29p
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
My friend Steve finally made it onto the cover of “Health” pic.twitter.com/MIUDYXTSys
RT @michaelmalice:
people are trained to believe this since kindergarten, when kids are locked together in a room all day with other kids t…
RT @aginnt:
Tunisia erupts as the government continues to use COVID as an excuse to eliminate freedoms. pic.twitter.com/jTHWUbemRH
RT @rondeaulivia:
See you guys in the gulag! pic.twitter.com/u5QrNJA3ju
RT @reitschuster:
Wieler rät jetzt auch zum Masken-Tragen im eigenen Haushalt, wenn jemand positiv getestet wurde.
Zuvor hatte das RKI von…
RT @libsoftiktok:
This guy reportedly kept a french fry in his mouth for the entire 1.5 hr flight so he wouldn’t have to wear a mask 😂😂 LEG…
Interesting read. Wasn’t like that when I left Apple in 2019. t.co/JP0iHxjvTp
Maybe. But the implication that conservatives are ‘covidiots’ or something is compatible with your tweet. And if the tables were turned and liberals were called covidiots I can easily imagine Fox News jumping on the opportunity.
What you’re saying provides evidence both in your favor and in mine, depending how you look at it.
@behrenstimb @Neuro_Skeptic @guardianopinion
Denying people’s agency is one problem.
RT @Neuro_Skeptic:
@behrenstimb @guardianopinion
I’d question whether this is a topic where neuroscience is useful. If the author is talkin…
Would a Twitter report headline also have read ‘Liberal politician AOC contracts covid after partying maskless in Florida’?
Not even Fox News did that: foxnews.com/politics/aoc-t…
I’m in the process of migrating to another podcast hosting provider. Hopefully back up soon.
Creativity had selection working in its favor at the rate at which deleterious mutations occur, which are much more numerous than favorable mutations.
To be clear, we didn’t lose our inborn ability to walk suddenly – we lost it gradually. Mutations decreasing that inborn ability added up over time and creativity could make up along the way so there was no selection pressure to keep the inborn ability.
RT @realDailyWire:
READ IT: Supreme Court’s Massive Blow Against Biden’s Vaxx Mandate dlvr.it/SH4gNN pic.twitter.com/iqZKsc7IqQ
RT @ANothlich:
Das „Argument“, man könne sich ja einfach impfen lassen, funktioniert übrigens auch bei jeder Religion. Man könnte ja einfac…
That’s right folks, people don’t make choices — they’re the hopeless, automatic slaves of their lizard brains!
Body parts that evolved millions of years ago are especially good at indulging in the latest technology. twitter.com/Neuro_Skeptic/…
RT @SpaceX:
10th landing of this Falcon 9 first stage booster pic.twitter.com/6HmNAdU7NY
That doesn’t work for me but focusing on the white area left of the nose as the face’s nose sometimes works.
I’m not suggesting that those things appear inborn. Eg people aren’t born knowing how to play instruments.
And why mention that Beck is conservative? Is Twitter implying that conservatives are more likely to catch covid? That they should therefore be avoided? Why didn’t I see Twitter saying anything about @AOC catching covid?
Twitter reports:
Conservative commentator and radio host Glenn Beck, who has claimed he’s unvaccinated, announces he has contracted COVID-19 for a second time and that it has spread to his lungs
Idk the guy but Twitter making the ‘rona sound like cancer isn’t helping.
[W]ould that be another example of mindless copying.
Yes. Transmission of animal memes does not require creativity. See eg Byrne’s behavior parsing.
How do we distinguish?
By asking whether an ability can or cannot be inborn.
No, it’s that we’re born not knowing how to walk. Children learn to walk themselves. (There are other considerations re animals such as physical maturing but that’s the long and short of it.)
Walking, riding a bike, depth perception, navigating familiar surroundings, playing a song you’ve practiced to perfection…
Basically any ability you’ve learned and more or less mastered so now you don’t need creativity anymore to execute it.
But the mechanism by which memes spread is creativity. Even a 100% static society with ~zero originality consists of creative people. A cuttlefish couldn’t replicate those memes.
And much of what humans do cannot be inborn. Which is why I asked in the beginning:
Why couldn’t that ability be entirely inborn and then executed mindlessly?
That’s usually the single question any serious evaluation of allegedly intelligent animal behavior boils down to.
No. Creativity has nothing to do with taking on colors from the environment, not in degree nor principle.
Interesting to contrast this with optical illusions where you can decide when to see what. E.g. a while back I saw a picture of two buildings and one could decide which building was in the foreground. Finding out what the difference is could be important.
What is telling the cuttlefish whether it is getting the correct pattern or not?
Some inborn criterion to compare against. ‘Ground truth’ in that case supplied by environment + criterion.
Eine Regierung sollte nicht in der Lage sein, einer App einfach so mit einer “Abschaltung” zu drohen. twitter.com/ZStadtfux/stat…
I think an argument could be made that programmers can be partially better writers because they’re trained to find elusive typos.
That’s assuming evo psych is true. It isn’t. People have ideas about what’s scary and what isn’t which they create themselves. They don’t just inherit those ideas genetically.
Some people find the ‘uncanny’ in the uncanny valley interesting, worthy of study, not scary at all.
If it were inborn I would expect it to copy it faithfully with little effort.
Compare certain ‘AI’ algorithms that recognize numbers. Takes lots of training and readjusting. Inborn != effortless.
How can an organism have an [ability] to imitate a pattern or shape that it hasn’t been naturally selected for?
Its ‘pattern-emulation’ algorithm may have reach (Deutsch).
Why couldn’t that ability be entirely inborn and then executed mindlessly?
Evidence that knowledge is autonomous: you can’t just will it into existence or will it away.
I first saw the dog, then the face, then the dog again. Face is elusive. twitter.com/ResNeXtGuesser…
RT @libsoftiktok:
Spotted at Ohio State University 🤡 pic.twitter.com/HHusXS4W84
RT @CommunistTerror:
“A Woman In Berlin” has apparently been banned by the current Russian government. It is a diary written by a 34 year-…
RT @ThomasSowell:
There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.
Scientific American stopped being scientific a while ago: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/scientif…
Wichtig im Hinterkopf zu behalten, dass solche Menschen fest davon überzeugt sind, dass sie Gutes tun. Auch wenn es für uns irre klingt.
They also want to trick you into climate lockdowns by making climate change a health issue.
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
We could potentially save several lives per year if safety helmets were mandatory in schools at all times.
If this is what the people at @butcherbox think is good security practice I’m worried about my account information. And you should be, too.
It’s like displaying a password to you in plain text and then asking you to paste it for “security purposes”. Makes no sense. If they’re talking to an attacker then they just displayed the password to the attacker.
Perhaps even more annoying than @butcherbox’s incessant use of the word ‘sustainability’ is their practice of first displaying your phone number and email address to you when you start a support chat and then asking you to repeat that same information for “security purposes”.
RT @Paolo1264:
A West German man shows his son the other side of the Berlin Wall (1961). pic.twitter.com/XUJrrhVW9T