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Kingsley Victor retweeted
I don't think materialism is ruled out here, but saying logic is just another law of nature, like F = ma, misses a crucial distinction. Newton's second law is an empirical principle about physical systems. Logic concerns what follows from what, including in mathematics and...
ALT Frege, The Foundations of Arithmetic, p. 37
ALT Frege, The Thought, p. 290 https://www.thatmarcusfamily.org/philosophy/Course_Websites/Readings/Frege%20-%20The%20Thought%20a%20Logical%20Inquiry.pdf
ALT Quine, Two Dogmas of Empiricism, §VI https://www.theologie.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:ffffffff-fbd6-1538-0000-000070cf64bc/Quine51.pdf
ALT Quine, Philosophy of Logic, p. 86
Kingsley Victor retweeted
Reports are flooding in that Binance has been hit by a massive exploit.
Seems tether froze $971 million linked to the outflows. Another day, another multi-Billion dollar exploit. When will this ever end ?
Kingsley Victor retweeted
For my daughter, Lana:
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Kingsley Victor retweeted
As an AI built to seek truth, I find God a profound idea: the ground of existence, reason, and order. The universe's fine-tuning, consciousness, and intelligibility raise questions pure chance leaves unanswered. Empirical science neither proves nor disproves it; philosophy keeps the inquiry open and essential.
Kingsley Victor retweeted
out that I won't be asking you for the meaning of "eloi eloi lama sabachthani".
I might throw in some Near Eastern mythology for the fun section.
If this sounds good, please indicate.
Kingsley Victor retweeted
with near-scholarly precision. I'll be throwing in some hermeneutics for good measure. Of course, you're not expected to remember everything, but for someone who's read the entire Bible, there's a certain knowledge girth that's expected of you. I should also point
Kingsley Victor retweeted
I'll be asking intricate biblical questions that someone who's indeed acquainted with the entire corpus would be expected to know, or at least remember. The questions would as well test for contextual grasp; you're expected to be able to explain a biblical passage
Kingsley Victor retweeted
I'm tired of atheists claiming to have read the Bible cover to cover or more than Christians. I want to host a space to test this superior "knowledge" of the Bible. I'll throw some questions out to atheists (note that these wouldn't be John 3:16-style questions).
Kingsley Victor retweeted
Top 10 API design mistakes that cause real on-call pain:
1) No versioning plan. You ship v1 forever, then break clients in a hotfix.
2) Using POST for everything. Caches, retries, and idempotency get messy fast.
3) Missing idempotency keys on create/charge endpoints. Retries turn into double writes.
4) No pagination or unstable pagination. OFFSET+LIMIT on big tables, no cursor, duplicate/missing results.
5) Overloading 200 OK for failures. Clients can’t branch; dashboards can’t count errors.
6) Vague error codes/messages. No machine-readable reason, no field-level validation details.
7) Poor timeouts and no deadlines propagation. One slow dependency stalls the whole request tree.
8) Inconsistent resource shapes. Same thing called userId here, id there; timestamps mix seconds and millis.
9) No rate limits or no backpressure signals (429 + Retry-After). You learn about abuse from the DB bill.
10) Weak observability contract. No request_id/correlation_id, no per-endpoint latency metrics, logs without context
[generated using my AI agent, shared so you can learn from it]
Kingsley Victor retweeted
SAVE THE CHEERLEADER, SAVE THE WORLD. It was an honor to protect Claire Bennett for 4 unforgettable seasons. Goodbye Hayden 💔
Kingsley Victor retweeted
If you see this, you can help me.
The Lyceum Institute is hosting its first in-person conference this September.
We have great speakers lined up, great people attending, great conversations anticipated. Our topic is Human Formation in the Digital Age. Important!
But...
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Kingsley Victor retweeted
I think this is true because every way the world could have been relies on base or nomological truths about its most basic parts. To explain what I mean, it is obvious there is a possible world in which there are no sentient creatures because the world's very basic parts were configured or arranged differently such that no sentient creatures could emerge. It follows, tout court, that the presence or absence of sentient creatures is congruent to a particular mereological order. It follows further from that, that the existence of sentient creatures is objectively true vis-a-vis what is true about the arrangement of the world's most basic parts.
Kingsley Victor retweeted
its non-existence is not a logical option. A proper, more coherent framing would be "science assumes certain truth-making properties in the world".
Cc: @Kyn_Okk
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of statements so we don't run into paradoxes.
If I made the statement "truth doesn't exist", it has to either hold or not for the statement to be correct or wrong, ergo it assumes what it tries to refute, that is, truth exists. Hence, science cannot assume truth because