Theme: Causality

That’s what sophistry means: analogy as a pretense of knowledge to mask ignoranc

That’s what sophistry means: analogy as a pretense of knowledge to mask ignorance of the underlying model of constant relations. In the history of human thought,every time we assumed woo woo,we were just ignorant and wrong because the scale of causes were larger than we observed.

Source date (UTC): 2020-11-11 17:39:32 UTC

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If I can explain quantum woo woo with three variations on one mental model, then we have to ask, why everyone tries to use woo woo math.There is nothing woo woo about the subatomic world unless you start with woo woo concepts to describe it.Mathiness w/o mental model = sophistry.

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November 11, 2020
Every substantive question of social science can be reduced to first causes and

Every substantive question of social science can be reduced to first causes and rendered decidable (moral/immoral). But our conflict is over the equilibrium between rewards of increasing the scale of cooperation in a division of labor, and the resulting expansion of dysgenia.

Source date (UTC): 2020-11-10 15:05:32 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1326179188634771459

November 10, 2020
Because not-alive -> alive -> conscious -> self replicating. At this point alive

Because not-alive -> alive -> conscious -> self replicating. At this point alive means DNA in a resource-rich environment. Self-replication without DNA, and ‘life’ with DNA are just analogies. This is an example of why disambiguation by operationalism and serialization clarifies.

Source date (UTC): 2020-11-09 18:41:58 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1325871266717425670

November 9, 2020
You know, the prevalence of human depression is most likely a byproduct of our d

You know, the prevalence of human depression is most likely a byproduct of our domestication, since the reduction of aggression requires a reduction in neurochemistry, including serotonin, nitrous oxide, and testosterone and it’s byproducts. AFAIK only physical sport assists it.

Source date (UTC): 2020-11-07 16:22:16 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1325111337744207872

November 7, 2020
OMG You are ignorant. Birth defects are caused both by inbreeding and outbreedin

OMG You are ignorant. Birth defects are caused both by inbreeding and outbreeding. They are prevented by near-breeding. Near breeding produces the greatest opportunity for correcting errors. That’s why all human evolution occured by multi-isolation followed by hybridization.

Source date (UTC): 2020-11-07 15:10:12 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1325093198067339266

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November 7, 2020
Thought: how many of you autistics on Twitter would have been diagnosed as autis

Thought: how many of you autistics on Twitter would have been diagnosed as autistic before 1980? None? Why? Merger of many different anomalies into one causal spectrum. Similar to what is occurring in the schizophrenic, and sexual development spectrums.

Source date (UTC): 2020-11-07 12:14:22 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1325048950295064577

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November 7, 2020
Hmm… Finding consistent. Theory of cause, not. Reductio explanation is just as

Hmm… Finding consistent. Theory of cause, not. Reductio explanation is just as likely the result of tendency to develop exceptionless rule based behavior rather than empathically conditional behavior. That would be more consistent with. All other findings.

Source date (UTC): 2020-11-07 02:02:10 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1324894883727945730

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November 7, 2020
I know y’all can’t grasp this but it’s how I work.Physicists use math, programme

I know y’all can’t grasp this but it’s how I work.Physicists use math, programmers use programs, I use arguments, but it’s the same thing: tests. Working on the origins and foundation of western civ has been extremely useful. It doesn’t come from thinking, but from experimenting.

Source date (UTC): 2020-11-06 19:09:51 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1324791120853979139

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November 6, 2020
You just didn’t consider the possibility that some genes favor correspondence an

You just didn’t consider the possibility that some genes favor correspondence and some dont.

That’s why studying mathematical fields is useful. You stop making normative mistakes.

Source date (UTC): 2020-11-03 22:59:27 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1323761739578691585

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November 3, 2020
I don’t care what system of government, economy, social order, or faith that you

I don’t care what system of government, economy, social order, or faith that you construct – it will be governed by the laws that I state and produce the outcomes I state. There is no difference between physics and behavior except for our memory of cooperative debits and credits.

Source date (UTC): 2020-11-03 21:05:35 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1323733085410762752

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Really I don’t have critics of the work. Just of me. That’s ok. Same for other ‘disagreeable’ people in history. This isn’t a popularity contest. Unfortunately, people intuit that formal behavioral science needs their approval as if it’s ideology or philosophy. Sorry. Wrong.

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November 3, 2020