Sentientist and writer, interested in morality, decision & game theory, history, and all things math and science.
The Netherlands
Joined February 2011
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Het gaat er niet om wat wie dan ook er van "vindt", maar wat de feiten zijn. Als er iemand is die mannen met baarden niet als "leven" zien betekent dat niet dat ze jou of mij iets aan mogen doen.
(Ik ben niet tegen het recht op abortus, en jammer dat je zo'n nare reactie kreeg!)
Hot take: "Two-boxing is rational, but you should one-box" is a contradiction.
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It’s not enough to consider non-human sentient beings as an afterthought or when someone happens to bring up the topic.
They need to be integrated into the very core of our ethical thinking.
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Should the food served to patients by hospitals and clinics set a good example nutritionally, ethically and environmentally? 🌱
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"... and we should honor it." What?! Of course we should judge Hamas for martyring their children! Martyring children is wrong by ANY reasonable moral standard. It isn't "their choice" in any moral sense.
"... and we should honor it." What?! Of course we should judge Hamas for martyring their children! Martyring children is wrong by ANY reasonable moral standard. It isn't "their choice" in any moral sense.
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For most of us there’s a chasm between the values we say we have and the values we actually express through our voting & job & investment & consumption choices.
It’s often easier than we think to close the gap.
(Yes by making better choices, not by worsening our values 😊)
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“I’m supporting the oppression of that group because I’m focused on resisting the oppression of this group”, is not a strong moral argument.
Since physics is maths, literally everything that exists is maths. That makes "AI is maths" an extremely meaningless statement.
"Human intelligence is maths. Nothing more, nothing less. To say human intelligence is conscious or intelligent is meaningless."
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If with Game Theory you mean bad Nash Equilibria (e.g. Prisoner's Dilemma), this is actually a bad example! Regardless of what others do, your best decision is to go vegan. Even if nobody else decides so, you'll still have a big expected impact: less animals in (factory) farms.
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A Critique of Peter Woit (@notevenwrong)'s Review of Our Mathematical Universe link.medium.com/qKk7zpLCgMb
A Critique of Peter Woit (@notevenwrong)'s Review of Our Mathematical Universe link.medium.com/qKk7zpLCgMb
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A Critique of Sabine Hossenfelder's (@skdh) Take on the Many Worlds Interpretation:
medium.com/@heindehaan/a-cri…
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Almost finished How Not to Be Wrong by @JSEllenberg. It's a great book, and I learned a lot from it - though I was slightly disappointed with the discussion of the St. Petersburg Paradox. (1/n)
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But MWI throws away the collapse postulate and therefore has no spooky action at a distance. So it doesn't seem to me we have yet to figure out something there :)
To be clear, I highly recommend @JSEllenberg's How Not to Be Wrong! You'll learn a lot from it :)
Almost finished How Not to Be Wrong by @JSEllenberg. It's a great book, and I learned a lot from it - though I was slightly disappointed with the discussion of the St. Petersburg Paradox. (1/n)