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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“But Joe Biden’s publicist, who’s a dedicated enemy of human happiness and really ought to be teaching in a kindergarten classroom in New York City, said she’s disappointed in the judge’s ruling.” twitter.com/aginnt/status/…
RT @Mike___Kilo:
A German just can’t understand why the government shouldn’t have all the guns.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: she’ll cheat him out of his Sandpiper money. It’s the real reason she wanted to get married, and it’s the real reason she wants to go after Howard.
RT @NewmanJ_R:
One time I got stuck in the back corner of a store because both floor arrows pointed to the corner.
I’m still here now. Ple…
RT @ben_brechtken:
Coronamaßnahmen bringen rein gar nichts außer Freiheitsverlust.
@Mrsme17750698 @ViriEspindola @BetterCallSaul
She’ll give half the sandpiper money to her mom. JK that’s taking it too far :D
I agree she probably cut ties.
@ViriEspindola @Mrsme17750698 @BetterCallSaul
She’ll cheat Jimmy out of his sandpiper money. Real reason she wanted to get married.
Warren repeatedly lies through her teeth: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/lying-li…
@jasongfleischer @Neuro_Skeptic
People can be wrong about their own experience and memories and give mistaken explanations for their own behavior all the time.
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
I was at a fisting party the other day and some people weren’t wearing masks. So irresponsible! It was like a slap in…
RT @JradRabel:
Just got messaged by a NYT journalist about my previous tweet. This is what happened. pic.twitter.com/Dr5fHBnLCm
People are too focused on prevention strategies. As DD explains in the context of climate change, that can’t work forever.
If instead ppl asked themselves, ‘If I DO catch covid, what can I do to recover quickly’, many might realize that it’s just not that big a deal.
Theories are indeed true or false independently of our beliefs, but science as a field does not and cannot know what is true. twitter.com/engineers_feed…
A small victory. Let’s keep heading in that direction. twitter.com/libsoftiktok/s…
RT @aginnt:
A Delta flight attendant breaks into tears as she takes off her mask for the first time in two years.
What COVID law has done…
A democrat openly saying what she’s after: power over the people. twitter.com/SabadosaMA/sta…
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
Those requirements are getting out of hand reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/PqurmCDrKb
@FallingIntoFilm @Yoda4ever @sdhruv86 @ToKTeacher
Those arguments are not just behavioral: they also refer to abstract concepts like creativity and criticism.
Btw, we know how to code many animals; video games often have believable animals in them. Also robots are getting better and better at resembling animals.
@FallingIntoFilm @Yoda4ever @sdhruv86 @ToKTeacher
Both people and animals make all sorts of mistakes but people can be critical of those mistakes and correct them creatively: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/buggy-do…
RT @MichaWindisch:
#Lauterbach merkt, dass ihm keiner mehr zuhört, keiner mehr glaubt. Daher erfindet er immer drastischere Formulierungen,…
Geht alles besser und mit weniger Arbeit ohne akademische Ausbildung.
PS: Lassen Sie den Gender-Unsinn.
So to add complexity to the show and make Jimmy’s downfall more tragic, what he says to the girl is false. Jimmy is given a chance. Though perhaps too little too late.
IIRC Hamlin even references Jimmy’s thoughts on the girl and admits it was a mistake not to hire him sooner!
What’s interesting is that, with Chuck gone, Hamlin is finally able to make Jimmy an offer over lunch. In fact, he’s always wanted to hire Jimmy but had to defer to Chuck.
Diesen Unsinn gibt es in Amerika schon lange. Er ist nach D ruebergeschwappt. Es sind genau die gleichen Worte eins zu eins uebersetzt, obwohl der kulturelle Kontext in D ein ganz anderer ist. Das zeigt einem bereits, dass da was faul ist.
RT @TitaniaMcGrath:
Cancel Spanish. pic.twitter.com/ldaEnVHHOc
RT @_Islamicat:
Starving immigrant brother arrive in London and sees first dirty uncovered Western womens and alphabet tribe https://t.co/2…
Machen/machieren, essen/essieren, Fahrrad fahren/Fahrrad fahrieren usw.
RT @nomadcapitalist:
“Biden’s Billionaire Tax Wouldn’t Just Hurt Billionaires” reason.com/2022/04/14/bid…
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
Sometimes I wonder reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/K4JULvfwFg
Doesn’t look very scalable does it? twitter.com/Humanforscale_…
Why anyone would travel to the unwashed asshole of a country that is China is beyond me. twitter.com/ANothlich/stat…
RT @MinistryofTru16:
Wow…those are some useless numbers you managed to accumulate. Well done.
RT @DrewHolden360:
Okay, some of these are too good.
Quick 🧵 of the wackiest @elonmusk potentially buying Twitter takes vs. what those fol…
RT @FreeBeacon:
After Biden finished his speech, he turned around and tried to shake hands with thin air and then wandered around looking c…
Maybe not: “Other liquids have chemical properties which can cause a chemical reaction on the test strip, resulting in misleading or inaccurate results.”
Again, let musk do with his money what he wants twitter.com/TheRickyDavila…
so in addition to being a pretend doctor you’re also a pretend louis ck explaining jokes?
i bet you’re one of those people wearing multiple masks at the same time and posting selfies on social media to show what a great person you are
and that noah wyle is a pretend doctor, which lots of ppl on twitter are these days, too
the point was that noah wyle is about as qualified to make medical statements as you are (i’m guessing you’re not a doctor), not that he was accidentally medically right in the actual scene
If you look closely you can see him shedding a single tear when he says one couldn’t do Chinese-style lockdowns in the US. twitter.com/disclosetv/sta…
Watch out everyone, Noah Wyle here thinks wearing a mask is a good idea twitter.com/BumpItMcCarthy…
Apart from the religious mumbo jumbo, this is good stuff: twitter.com/revelation17_1…
@StigOfHK @james_e_b_ @TheAngryEpi
Ding ding ding! This is the 1,489,120th time someone has used the traffic-light analogy to justify tyranny: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/libertar…
Why on earth might I like this, Twitter? Isn’t my tweet history clear? pic.twitter.com/QLKbgH8Bey
RT @aginnt:
The Chinese people are desperately fighting back against COVID prisons. pic.twitter.com/rEZHRp2Ujj
Kinder ernst nehmen – Interview: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/kinder-e…
Still pretty overtly, but yes this is closer to the truth. twitter.com/MostlyPeaceful…
RT @PhilHollowayEsq:
Is this the most nonsensical image from the last two years? It’s hard to fathom this really happened https://t.co/sNu9…
RT @firstofequals:
Frightening. Time to shut off the water mains until we can be sure you are safe.
RT @SJobs_Stories:
“Hey, Jony, how are you doing? Well, it’s been 2 and a half years, and I - I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to make th…
RT @FLCaseyDeSantis:
“No Floridian will be restricted, mandated or locked down in any possible way.” -@GovRonDeSantis
That’s MY Governor!…
@IDJoe4Congress
We really didn’t need linguists to figure this out.
Apple macht jetzt auch den Gender-Quatsch. Von der Apple-Books-Seite: pic.twitter.com/Ek4AZrVfUA
We have an infinity of wants because problems are inevitable (Deutsch).
You’re shitting on everything that makes life livable for you right now, and on everyone who’s heroically made that possible. If you want to live as our ancestors did, do it. You won’t last a week.
@JoeH78113424 @foxjust @FukuyamaFrancis
I take the Popperian stance on this: be bold in your conjectures, humble in how much you think you know (little to nothing).
@JoeH78113424 @foxjust @FukuyamaFrancis
[H]ave you read Thomas Nagle’s Mind & Cosmos?
No.
[H]e reviews this materialistic neo-Darwinian space
I’m not a materialist btw. I’ve said neurons’ movement instantiates abstractions.
@JoeH78113424 @foxjust @FukuyamaFrancis
I didn’t say ‘Intelligence = logic’.
The algorithm that instantiates intelligence may follow a simple logic. It can then give rise to all the other attributes you mention, such as love etc.
@JoeH78113424 @foxjust @FukuyamaFrancis
[W]here did it get finally ruled out?
Maybe. Though I think that’s a separate argument.
The claim was that without rules there’d be more cases, which should mean more deaths, but there is ~no excess mortality in countries without rules. So it can’t be true that without rules there’d be more cases.
@JoeH78113424 @foxjust @FukuyamaFrancis
[Y]ou want to convince me that we can create AI?
It must be possible in principle since evolution managed to do it with us – so how hard can it be?
Weather is hard cuz lots of chaos, AI may follow simple logic.
Humility is overrated.
@JoeH78113424 @foxjust @FukuyamaFrancis
But where is it ‘proven’ human [sic] are ‘just’ neurons?
Dunno, but that’s neither Deutsch’s nor my view. Quite the opposite: it’s that whatever abstractions the movement of those neurons instantiates, a computer can instantiate, too.
@JoeH78113424 @foxjust @FukuyamaFrancis
No one is doubting that computers can imperfectly simulate neurons
Lots of ppl doubt that because they don’t understand computational universality.
@DavidDeutschOxf @ericdenton235
Without the rules, there would have been more cases
I realize it’s a hypothetical, but Nick Hudson refutes this notion starting at 14:38: pandata.org/time-to-reopen…
@JoeH78113424 @foxjust @FukuyamaFrancis
But there is. A steam engine is not a universal simulator. But a computer is, so expecting it to be able to do whatever neurons can is not a metaphor: it is a known and proven property of the laws of physics as best we know them.
@JoeH78113424 @foxjust @FukuyamaFrancis
But this is still no more than a metaphor, says Searle, and there is no more reason to expect the brain to be a computer than a steam engine.
@JoeH78113424 @DavidDeutschOxf @foxjust @FukuyamaFrancis
From Deutsch’s The Beginning of Infinity:
[F]or centuries, some people have tried to explain the mind in mechanical terms, using […] metaphors based on the most complex machines […]. [N]ow that computers are our most impressive technology, brains are said to be computers.
My son and his partner have been stuck in their apartment for 10 days in Shanghai. Can’t even leave to walk t…
RT @patrickmadrid:
What the?? This video taken yesterday in Shanghai, China, by the father of a close friend of mine. She verified its auth…
RT @latestinspace:
What will be the first thing said on Mars? pic.twitter.com/MWZZfs0eap
Or maybe you caught it and never even noticed.
RT @janinisabel:
Ich definiere: Jemand, der das „Wir“ missbraucht, um Kindern das halbe Gesicht zu verhüllen. Der kein Problem damit hat, U…
Gemeinschaft ist zwar in der Tat wichtig, weil man zum Loesen von Problemen letztendlich auf andere angewiesen ist, aber das kann ja alles in friedlicher Zusammenarbeit geschehen und erfordert keinen Zwang. (Es sind jedoch immer Individuen, die handeln und Fortschritt machen.)
‘Asoziale Arschloecher’ sind diejenigen, die auf den Rechten anderer herumtrampeln, um ihre eigenen Praeferenzen durchzusetzen.
Limiting oneself in the way original affluent society suggests leads to tremendous suffering and eventually death. Just because we share much of our DNA with our ancestors doesn’t mean we’d enjoy their misery.
Original affluent society assumes that wants can (or should) be limited. In reality, we always have an infinity of wants because we are never free of problems. David Deutsch explains this well in his book The Beginning of Infinity.
I’m not looking at extremes. That ‘original affluent society’ theory is ridiculous. A society in which anyone could die from an infected splinter is not affluent. And people died from that all the time. We do not, and we’re better off for it.
This is shockingly false. Much of what makes life bearable and enjoyable today did not exist 10000 years ago, and much of the misery people faced back then is finally gone. People are not their DNA.