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.
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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…