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…