Ty @aMiddleTurtle

You can't see under the bedrock. Look instead to the horizon. Joined September 2025

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gdsimms @gdsimms

2 days ago

@ArtemisConsort "how can we acknowledge people are different without wanting to kill them?" Telling on themselves

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I will die on each of these hills: - An intricate seal on a plain background almost always makes for an ugly flag - Preserving ugliness to own the redditards is itself retarded - New things are not always bad - You can (and should) keep the old seals, but as seals, not flags

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

3 days ago

I can't prove that epiphenominalism is false, but the idea that the most important thing in the universe is a mere byproduct of deterministic processes, a useless appendage fooling us into thinking we have agency, strikes me as not only absurd but evil.

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

4 days ago

Whenever I read "The purpose of a system is what it does" the implication seems to be "My political enemies' actions are always due to malice and never stupidity" which is likely incorrect. Am I missing something? What insight is that statement meant to convey?

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

4 days ago

When writing, I've been using ChatGPT as a crutch. "Rephrase this", "find a better word", etc. They're little things but they add up to a bad habit. I've trained myself into a sort of sloppiness. One reason for this Twitter account is to help myself fix the damage.

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

4 days ago

I understand, and largely agree with, the purely instrumental arguments against capital punishment. E.g., it's probably bad to execute people because in the long run, you'll likely end up executing innocents. Better to restrict the role of the state to what's strictly necessary…

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

5 days ago

It's deeply human to want to go beyond mere deterrence or containment, and see bad guys get what they actually deserve. Our high-minded overlords dismiss this instinct as the barbaric thrashing of peasants--and fair enough, I guess. The Western justice system, for all its…

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5 days ago

@vvvincent_c "Do LLMs display true language understanding?" Strange question. I can think of two meanings for "understanding": 1) the functional one, i.e., an agent understands X if, given X, it can produce useful output; and 2) the experiential one, i.e., an agent understands X if it has…