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
The self-defeating steps taken straight out of Atlas Shrugged toward ‘alignment’ can’t possibly lead to AGI. Silver lining: they can’t lead to the torture of AGI either. At least not from these guys. twitter.com/openai/status/…
RT @MinistryofTru16:
How can anyone expect people who never harmed anyone to pay reparations to people that were never harmed?
RT @BankableInsight:
Capitalism is a competitive sport; getting help from the referees is cheating. - Will Spencer
RT @SunTzuCyber:
"Defeat wrought by known vulnerabilities is doubly painful in the media" - The Art of Cyber War
Does working hard preclude having fun? I never perceived learning to program as hard work.
RT @FermiLevels:
This is what happens when politicians and health bureaucrats get blind drunk on power, and the media plays along, and the…
RT @AlexEpstein:
Any study about fossil fuels' side-effects should prominently mention their life-extending benefits. But many studies, fun…
RT @monitoringbias:
@AP
The AP will be publishing a five-part series on higher rates of disease among black people in America.
What will t…
RT @Aristos_Revenge:
All DEI is, is the soft bigotry of low expectations by yankees that treat nonwhites like endangered animals they are t…
RT @heikebru:
Ain’t that the truth.
Education in most schools is maximum indoctrination & maximum distraction by propagandists (some call…
Can children choose the best education pathway for themselves? twitter.com/gregabbott_tx/…
RT @mtaibbi:
Fantasies about taking away health insurance, or letting “wheezy” die untreated in an ER, aren’t sadistic? Doctors treat heroi…
RT @t_woelfer:
Wer nach Corona tatsächlich immer noch glaubt, der Staat wäre
gut darin, auch nur die einfachsten Probleme zu lösen, geschwe…
RT @AlexEpstein:
The proper way to measure energy subsidies is: How much taxpayer money does the government pay per unit of energy? Every p…
RT @RealSpikeCohen:
Never forget that the political class flew around the planet in private jets, at your expense, while they told you to d…
I suspect that, once the enlightenment extends to children, people will realize the irony of the tweet below: that, while forcing anyone to wear a mask is wrong, forcing them to attend reeducation camps for years on end is an immeasurably worse crime. twitter.com/cwt_news/statu…
@JesseNichols @TimSweeneyEpic @sama
Sam should read Atlas Shrugged. Or maybe he has and identifies with the villains. Sad.
There’s new related material I find promising such as blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/what-mak…
LLMs are just not a step on the way to AGI. Something else is needed. Popper is needed. twitter.com/sashayanshin/s…
She has “esq” in her name so you can trust her
RT @michaelmalice:
Literal vampire preying on the poor in service to the state
RT @YasMohammedxx:
PS: The young woman who was viciously abused, isolated from family and friends, forced to wear hijab then niqab, beaten…
RT @YasMohammedxx:
A friend in my hometown was speaking to an officer about a domestic violence case and this is what he had to say. She th…
So When Can a Woman ‘Date Up’? blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/so-when-…
RT @NickTaber:
Alot of the "bad behavior" you see in kids/teens, I would characterize as reactive abuse. The kid might be experiencing emo…
Olaf Klonus ist ein schlechter Versicherungsmakler: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/olaf-klo…
RT @LPMisesCaucus:
You should be allowed to do heroin, but no one else should be forced to bear the consequences of that decision on your b…
RT @PessimistsArc:
Such an interesting 1954 article on ‘computer hype’ comparing it to ‘electricity hype’ of 1890s.
Notes that every age o…
An update on @Square’s shady business practices: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/don-t-us…
TL;DR: I give up, no accountability from Square.
RT @townhallcom:
KENNEDY: "If electric cars are so swell, how come government has to pay people to drive 'em?" pic.twitter.com/UICqGszRm9
RT @LPMisesCaucus:
The Federal Reserve has printed over $30 trillion at the behest of the US government and the elites that control it. The…
RT @SHomburg:
Möchten Sie lieber lachen oder weinen? Lauterbachs Ministerium weiß nicht, ob Masken wirksam waren!
Sie eigneten sich als In…
Can You Refute This? blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/can-you-…
RT @Hassnudla:
@m3m3z1ll4
Also du darfst als Mann dein Geschlecht ändern, außer natürlich du hast dadurch einen der Vorteile, den der Staat…
RT @billybinion:
Thread: The Supreme Court is hearing a big case tomorrow. It should unite everyone: left, right & center. And the national…
RT @a_nnaschneider:
Dahmen fürchtet sich vor Schuldzuweisungen und was soll ich sagen, das würde ich an seiner Stelle wohl auch tun.
http…
Good rules of thumb for cybersecurity:
- Don’t store things in ‘the cloud’. If you’re going to sync data across devices, use cables.
- Don’t use google. Configure your firewall to block requests to domains containing the word ‘google’ and to Google’s IPs. twitter.com/newsycombinato…
RT @realjohngatto:
School is the first impression children get of organized society.
Like most first impressions it is the lasting one.…
RT @jbrowder1:
DoNotPay is bringing AutoGPT to iMessage for all of our customers. User interfaces are outdated in the A.I/GPT-4 era.
Getti…
Are local governments and departments like the police department suppose to operate with the goal to make a profit?
Yes. Because if they don’t, that means there’s an error somewhere that needs to be corrected. Currently, that means of error correction is stifled.
RT @latestinspace:
Surface of Mars on April 20 from NASA's Perseverance rover
Taken the same day as the Starship launch https://t.co/MwDW…
RT @JimEatock:
@icorrecty00 @wytchheart @bradybuzz @POTUS
The Illinois legislature banned (by name and model number in the law) the Barrett…
RT @AlexEpstein:
"The ravenous American appetite for minerals will lead to severe shortages in the next few decades unless the nation stops…
Würde nicht der Verweis auf Artikel 1 bereits reichen? Auch um zu zeigen, dass jegliche Form von Zwangsabgabe (inkl. Steuern) verfassungswidrig ist.
RT @LinkedinFlex:
If you see this the day after submitting your taxes, you’re getting anally probed by one of Biden’s new 87,000 IRS agents…
Dieses Video bspw. von 1979 (!) ist so aktuell wie eh und je: youtu.be/-3SA6G5rZrg
RT @tomyhub:
Wir sollen der Wissenschaft folgen - #FollowTheScience - heisst es.
Doch was bedeutet das? Ist "die Wissenschaft" ein Chor,…
Schöner Thread. Popper lesen lohnt sich übrigens. Hat einiges zum Thema Autorität vs Wissenschaft geschrieben. Bei dem ganzen Coronaschlamassel hat er sich bestimmt im Grab umgedreht.
RT @NikoJilch:
Die deutsche Sehnsucht nach Verboten ist erschreckend, sagt Anna Schneider. @a_nnaschneider pic.twitter.com/Mri7Wvo7po