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Slope of Function Jan 12
Replying to @mr_scientism
And the non-liberals are somehow immune to narrative; they live in truth the way liberals can't?
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Slope of Function Jan 5
If you really built a second brain it would eventually need to build its own second brain and so on recursively.
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Slope of Function Dec 30
Replying to @vgr
Assertive tweets.
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Slope of Function Dec 9
using "virtue signalling" implies you are too virtuous to signal, and is therefore a virtue signal.
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Slope of Function Nov 28
To be a good programmer one must feel with Beckett that "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
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Slope of Function Nov 25
Papert advocates the computer as a tool for learning "procedural thinking", eg learning to detect and correct mental bugs. Here's about as direct a statement as I could find:
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Slope of Function Nov 24
Sigh, like I said, based on an impoverished model of computation. Antidote: read Papert (a Piagetian)
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Slope of Function Nov 23
4 is based on an impoverished model of computation, which is just another word for "well-defined process". Thinking is either computational or it's spirits from the vasty deep (could be!).
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Slope of Function Nov 23
Replying to @AE_Robbert @normonics
those are all metaphors which can be more or less salient. The mind is not a machine, but it is more like a machine than it is most other things, therefore thinking of it as a machine is useful.
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Slope of Function Nov 17
Replying to @CNNSotu @jaketapper
If this was Weimar, Mr. Rogers would be the first to join the resistance while Jake Tapper was urging us to find the common humanity we share with the Nazis.
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Slope of Function Nov 17
Don't trust people who say "sorry, I don't make the rules". They are the false priests of an unseen rule-giver.
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Slope of Function Nov 15
Always nice to be lectured at about liberty from an enabler of fascism.
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Slope of Function Nov 5
Replying to @VincentHorn
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Slope of Function Sep 2
Replying to @0x49fa98
Better to tweet on Twitter than be a reader of scriptures.
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Slope of Function Aug 31
Replying to @vgr
You've heard of this guy I trust? "Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers,...They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance? We can't all have Brandeises and Frankfurters..."
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Slope of Function Aug 31
Rationalists: OMG we are going to be eaten by inhuman, unstoppable paperclip maximizers! Also rationalists: How dare you criticize money maximizers, are you some kind of commie?
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Slope of Function Aug 28
Replying to @mims
Fuck that guy, what did he ever do for me?
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Slope of Function Aug 25
down these weird streets a man must go who is not himself weird
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Slope of Function Aug 9
Would be nice to be living in a world where this sounded like a bizarre fringe idea:
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Slope of Function Jun 29
Replying to @renormalized
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