Liberty

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Liberty

Liberty

@l1berty

EFL teacher. Interested in education / language / philosophy / politics.

London Katılım Ekim 2008
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Liberty
Liberty@l1berty·
@ToKTeacher @WTSmith17 Yes so the first few minutes in the shorter clip is meta discussion: ‘I’m just glad you were honest with me’ - ‘you’re a woke person’ - ‘you’re going to get the society you’re asking for’. In the longer clip they ask about his qualifications and what he’s read.
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Brett Hall
Brett Hall@ToKTeacher·
@l1berty @WTSmith17 (I just watched the clips from Warren again to check. So it must be in the fuller version that he demonstrates a larger share of meta and ad hominem...because in that video he's meta & more (Eg: 7:16 "I am the one looking at facts - you are the one who is leaning on emotion -").
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Brett Hall@ToKTeacher·
@l1berty Is that the one where he simply walked off the set?
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Liberty@l1berty·
Brett (@ToKTeacher) and I discuss thorny issues in education, including teachers' roles in political activism, democratic classrooms, and freedom and coercion. youtube.com/watch?v=nEOaZ0…
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Grǣġhama@grahamscheper·
Can you understand ACTUALLY SPOKEN Old English?? Here are a few snippets from my conversation with @colingorrie , the first recorded conversation between two advanced OE speakers in over 800 years! Check out the whole episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=Ww6hoK…
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Liberty
Liberty@l1berty·
@ConjectureInst A great list of recommendations. I hadn’t heard of several of them and it’s nice to have the context of who has recommended them.
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Conjecture Institute@ConjectureInst·
Books We've Learned from📚 Below are some books that Conjecture Institute affiliates have enjoyed, both in 2025 and during the course of our lives. Thread🧵
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Liberty@l1berty·
@leoselivan Now I see why you were asking about 'webquest'. 😁
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Liberty@l1berty·
@leoselivan I hadn't heard of it, but it seems like a useful term.
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Lexical Leo
Lexical Leo@leoselivan·
Teachers, Do we still say "webquest" or ...?
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Liberty@l1berty·
@akuhayum What channel did this video come from? I could like to seek permission to play it on my podcast.
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jasmine@akuhayum·
This English exam from Japan is impossible 😭
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Liberty@l1berty·
Heard on a YouTube video: “Your body simply doesn’t deserve what we literally call junk.” A correct but perverse use of the word ‘literally’. We literally do call it that. Figuratively.
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Liberty@l1berty·
@dchackethal What was the place you referred to where you would keep talking to Benjamin about the AI doom scenario?
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Liberty@l1berty·
@dchackethal @tomdnassis @atse_zola Yes, I’ve put forward a theory which says it itself has mistakes, but we don’t know what the mistakes are. If you agree we don’t rule things out unless we (a) know what the mistake is and (b) have a better idea, it’s not self defeating in the way you’re implying.
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Dennis Hackethal@dchackethal·
@l1berty @tomdnassis @atse_zola The theory that all theories are false rules itself out. That’s its mistake, I think. Whereas the theory that not all theories are false does not make that mistake. So it’s a viable replacement.
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Liberty@l1berty·
@dchackethal @tomdnassis @atse_zola No, nothing is ruled out unless you actually know what the mistake is. And even then you might not have a better theory to replace it with.
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Dennis Hackethal
Dennis Hackethal@dchackethal·
@l1berty @tomdnassis @atse_zola If it’s mistaken, it’s not true. It rules itself out. In which case not all theories are false. The alternative idea, that some theories are true, does not rule itself out. And I think it’s true, meaning it has zero mistakes.
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Liberty@l1berty·
@dchackethal @tomdnassis @atse_zola Yes, truth is objective and absolute. But our theories are only partly true in that sense. They are inevitably partly false too, because we use fallible guesses and reasoning to interpret limited information checked with unreliable sense perceptions.
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Liberty@l1berty·
@tomdnassis @atse_zola @dchackethal I think this is just correct for propositions because the negation of a false proposition is true and vice versa? But it’s not true of explanations. There are many more ways of being wrong than right and you don’t get a true explanation by negating a false one.
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Tom Nassis
Tom Nassis@tomdnassis·
@atse_zola @dchackethal @l1berty From The Myth of the Framework, "This shows that of all propositions one half will be true and the other half false. So we can be sure that there will be lots of true propositions, even though we may have great trouble in finding out which they are."
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Liberty@l1berty·
@dchackethal Thanks for reminding me of the name! It has been added to a list.
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Liberty@l1berty·
@BrunoLeys So in that case the present simple would be a sort of default or placeholder. I think that’s true of all verb forms to some extent - they’re easier to define in relation to others.
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Bruno Leys
Bruno Leys@BrunoLeys·
@l1berty I believe it actually is a kind of umbrella tense for many factual statements, regardless of time. It’s probably easier to define in how far the use of other tenses stands apart from the present simple.
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Bruno Leys@BrunoLeys·
Present simple for a past event in news headlines. An example showing that we use the tense for much more than just present time reference. #reallyrealgrammar
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