Kevin Schoedel @kpschoedel

pet peeve: as technological detritus from the era when every corporation was trying to cash in on the popularity of emoji, many unicode characters now are automatically replaced with emoji variants. even in text editors.

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David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf

3 weeks ago

A litany of shameful cynicism and spite.

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@jachaseyoung In retrospect, it seems ironic now.

@FazGPT No, you are.

I can't speak for others, but it's precisely because I know that Nature not only is allowed to kill me but *will do so with certainty* that I welcome any knowledge that could delay that fate. (Pic from American period life table for men in 2019.)

Greg ⏹️ Colbourn @gcolbourn

2 months ago

Beff is >15 years behind Yud in his intellectual development

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@JLahnsteiner But you're doing the opposite.

@DavidDeutschOxf This tweet of your means a lot to us: secular democracy-seeking Iranians 🙏

A banner hung by citizens from a bridge in Tehran says "We stand with Israel" and "Vahid is our voice", referring to Iranian dissident activist @Vahid_Beheshti who recently visited Israel and addressed Knesset to convey the same message from Iranian people to Israelis.

@MarinaMedvin Every single protester is basicslly this. They know Hamas literally made Gaza a terror base.

🚨 Published for the first time, David Deutsch’s original 1994 article, The Evolution of Culture, explaining how anti-rational memes sabotage culture, education and the Enlightenment. ✨ takingchildrenseriously.com/the-evolution-…

@Yair_Rosenberg It’s the old saying that the only difference between a man who isn’t an antisemite and one who is is three shots of vodka. Violence in Gaza doesn’t create antisemitism any more than vodka does. They both reveal it and provide a poor excuse for it.

“The right of the parent over his child lies either in his superior strength or his superior reason... It is a poor argument of my superior reason, that I am unable to make justice be apprehended and felt... without the intervention of blows.” - William Godwin, 1793

The Germans in the 30’s and 40’s also thought they were being oppressed by the Jews.

One idea would be to have participants print and cut out a set of cards like these. But that’s a bit cumbersome.

TEFL people: is there a way of doing assembly tasks with an online class? I mean tasks which involve arranging cards or Cuisenaire rods.

@VergaraLautaro @DavidDeutschOxf It doesn't know whether it knows or not. It predicts the continuation of texts, not facts in the world.

Every new and better idea is a criticism of the prevailing wisdom.

@DavidDeutschOxf Yes, a giant reflector of raw internet text in its entirety, a nonmetacognitive probabilistic mirror.

“Today’s unreasonable toddler demand: ‘I want to go to a hotel.’” Why an unreasonable demand? If my toddler said that to me, I would find it charming & fun, & I’d feel privileged to be with someone with such out-of-the-box ideas. Why NOT go to a hotel? It would be an adventure!

Why my heart sings when a young child says “No.”: - it is expressing a wish🤸🏻‍♀️✨ (Many adults feel too disempowered or unsafe to say “No”. How does that adversely affect their lives?) - it implies reason – a creative mind actively criticising conjectures and correcting errors🧠