Alephwyr

@alephwyr

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Free will is just what we call it when a person surprises us. Aristotle had it backwards. He thought that logical determination was no threat to free will and physical determination was. But everything is physical. Free will only ever referred to an assessment of logical indeterminism caused by a limited human model.

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I absolutely love geckos. They just chill all day, rid us of those pesky mosquitoes, walk upside down on ceilings, and can even lick their eyeballs. Meanwhile I work all day, get bitten by mosquitoes, and can’t even lick my elbows

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This is why I am skeptical of Yudkowsky's "Fun theory"

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Moxie Marlinspike

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This is weirdly reassuring. I left twitter out of necessity. I'm very happy there is a skin in the game analysis by someone who also believes it is becoming impotent.

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What's wokeism? Is it specifically the grift dynamics of upper class highly educated minorities? Is it the thought of the South Africanization of race relations in the west? It seems like the range of credible objections to wokeism is much narrower and less fundamental than those of fascism. It really feels like you yourself are playing it safe by treating white ethnonarcissism and minority ethnonarcissism as equivalent without actually drilling down into the substance of specific objections.

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Note that the actual implication of this is that victimless crimes against morality could be justified by some form of virtue ethics, not that victimless crimes are crimes.

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Every decision that can only be morally justified on a utilitarian basis is axiomatically a crime

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Finished reading the entire Wings of Fire series. It was good. I'm glad I invested the time.

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I'm not cut out for the bay. A life hack for me is like "try putting tomato on your sandwiches", not " convert your keyboard to Dvorak, use a standing desk, take all notes in a bespoke note taking app and manage even your personal time using agile"

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Here is my position on a forbidden 2x2

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DARPA is making a C to Rust auto converter called TRACTOR. Hopefully it's open sourced. I would like to switch to a Rust based Unix system for most of my computing.

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The philosophy that aids explanation has no motive to exist.

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Shoutout to girls who can't touch anyone without killing them. Gotta be one of my favorite genders.

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Who needs gambling when you can just watch your expected income fluctuate in real time as the student loan situation changes.

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For EU nationals: Eci.ec.Europa.EU/045/public/#/screen/home This would mandate video game companies have a way to allow private server operators to pick up the slack for EOL online games. Very cool, and important for preservation.

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Mastadon: Professionals and intellectuals having stilted conversations Twitter: Nazi "volk" Nostr: The actual SS Bluesky: World's most generic house party Threads: HR world Farcaster: Positive thinking and hucksters

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I don't like communism and I am skeptical that it is mostly bullshit used by opportunists to pursue unrelated objectives, including ethnic cleansing and personal vendettas. However, we are nearing the point where weapons will be needed. And I will use whatever weapons are on hand to defend myself.

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