Brett Hall

High praise. When one gains the respect of (or criticism from) those whose opinion one has deep respect for, what else matters on social media? x.com/naval/status/1…

Kinda relevant, but skirts the issue. The issue is: if there exist other aliens out there then given most planets are *either* billions of years older or younger than Earth so too would any intelligence evolving on them. Apparently the *two most advanced* species in the galaxy basically “appeared” in the universe simultaneously. That’s a problem. In reality we’d expect far more advanced species to be out there, if there are any at all. Of course in that case, they’d presumably have “fixed” the problem and undermine the entire premise of the plot. So we can forgive the author. I guess one could argue a civilization a billion years ahead of Earth might have no need for stars and so do not care…

@ToKTeacher @peterboghossian @ReidN In the book Grace and Rocky actually discuss this issue Here is Gemini's take on the discussion

“Project Hail Mary” - 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Seen it twice and looking forward to speaking about it with @peterboghossian and @ReidN soon. My “geeky gripe” for now (spoiler!) is the technological synchronicity issue - long discussed in astrobiology 101. But that’s ~true ∀ such sci-fi.

Succinct. And the most amazing thing about the CMB “anisotropies” from COBE on forward:

@ellymelly To much credit to say they created it. “Implemented it unthinkingly” is far closer to the mark. Only full time academics can create something so obviously ludicrous once one scratches the surface. And only political types follow such “intellectuals” like lemmings, no matter…

Labor created 'multiculturalism'. Seems to be going ... well. 🤨 Also, how is 'Allahu Akbar' not considered a cry of intimidation and threat of violence when Islamic terrorists shout it before committing acts of violence? So much for 'hate speech' laws, eh?

@Rothbard1776 Glorious.

Tough camera angle.

@DrewPavlou NDIS provider meetings with the government are heating up after your exposé.

BREAKING NEWS: Islamist extremists tied to Hizb Ut-Tahrir screamed “ALLAHU AKBAR” at Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese this morning as he attended Eid prayers at Lakemba Mosque

@TRobinsonNewEra “He’s responsible for the deaths of 1 billion people…” This is who they imagined “dialogue” with.

Only a handful of months after Muslims in Australia massacred 15 Jews on Bondi beach, inc a 10yr old girl. Aussie PM Anthony Alabanese went to Lakemba mosque to bend the knee(literally)further to them. And he quickly learned that feeding the crocodile is a cowards game.

@DrewPavlou Are he and @Keir_Starmer engaged in some kind of competition right now?

@VoteLewko @AlboMP @Tony_Burke @PaulineHansonOz @peterboghossian

Breaking: Wild scenes at Lakemba Mosque. @AlboMP and @Tony_Burke threatened by worshippers. Their bodyguards - only wearing socks - visibly nervous. The speaker attacks the government, @PaulineHansonOz and refers to Gaza with no mention of October 7.

@bryan_johnson 👀

Livestreaming 5-MeO-DMT this weekend… what should I expect?

@leoalexart Almost everyone prior to around 1900 would have said they “don’t believe we can fly” (in the sense aircraft do). They just *believed* it could not be so. Or so they said. Beliefs have zero impact on what is the case.

@ToKTeacher A specific human mind is substrate dependent. I don't believe we can be transferred.

The human mind is substrate independent.

@HayekMateando Indeed it is.

@ToKTeacher If that is the case, immortality or a life as long as the Universe is possible.

@pureMetatron “The left pole”.

Average Left Wing approach to politics.

@_BRCooper @MindMechanical @johannesmkx Blog post? bretthall.org/free-will-cons… Book? Just search someone’s tweets you don’t agree with, perhaps? 🤣

@ToKTeacher @MindMechanical @johannesmkx I don't have time to watch a YouTube video

Oh my god! 😂 There's no crime gene, but there is a "propensity to shoot and stab someone gene". It's the 2-repeat allele of the MAOA gene. African-Americans are 50 times more likely to carry this gene. Ahahahaaaaaaaaaahaha "Analyses revealed that African-American males who carry the 2-repeat allele are significantly more likely than all other genotypes to engage in shooting and stabbing behaviors and to report having multiple shooting and stabbing victims."

The “unifying concept” allowing people to understand everything is a basic idea: explanatory universality. But, as I have learned, “basic” does not mean “simple”. I have spent many years now making use of this idea - that people are “universal explainers” - to pick apart a variety of problems. Rather often, my interlocutors seem a mixture of puzzled and frustrated about my focus on that basic idea. It has, therefore, at times puzzled and frustrated me that others do not see the significance of explanatory universality. This book is my attempt to remedy some of the confusion. ~Conjecture Institute Ambassador @ToKTeacher

@Panagiotou90St It’s a start! 😉

It is time to conquer the galaxy.

@_BRCooper @MindMechanical @johannesmkx I see you are trapped in that old false dichotomy. (This is why those from our perspective “cop it” so to speak from both sides. You’re just on *the other* you’re saying). youtu.be/5x0hXALTKbY?si…

@ToKTeacher @MindMechanical @johannesmkx You think the structure of the human brain and the thought processes it enables is determined by something besides genes? Are you a blank slatist?

@MetalMonkey9 Music is very much dependent on which instrument one uses. Clearly a flute playing the same tune as a piano sounds different. Computations of any kinds can be performed on Apple Macs, PCs or any other universal computer. Again, that includes minds. Like it or not. 🤷

@ToKTeacher Music is instrument independent but you cannot obtain the sound of cello with a flute. So I agree mind, as is computing, is substrate independent but human mind specifically is substrate dependent.

@MindMechanical @_BRCooper @johannesmkx Like saying we are true falsehoods.

@ToKTeacher @_BRCooper @johannesmkx We are instead: thinking automatons

@_BRCooper @MindMechanical @johannesmkx Strange red herring. But then it’s a common response as soon as I say anything about human minds being universal explainers and not unthinking automatons driven by genes.

@ToKTeacher @MindMechanical @johannesmkx I don't need to wait around for a causal explanation for the correlation to know that I should keep my ass out of the ghetto.

@frankgoertzen Maybe you misread?

@ToKTeacher really ? i would have thought the opposite … unless you’re assuming a substrate simulation … or i missed the joke 🧐