popperazzi

a perpetual motion machine of the first kind

@leighmcdowell yes (and so will the statement claiming that it’s nonsense… and so is this statement, etc)

@poppermemes Will the script be mostly nonsense?

can’t wait for the scene where he brutally stabs popper with the poker (iykyk)

pov u are popper

trust me bro, that’s what happened - i was there (i was the poker)

chat, apparently i’m a hegelian - time to delete account?

@germanophile @DavidDeutschOxf seems i stand corrected… but i’m still to hear about any significant contribution from gödel to philosophy (other than the epistemological implications of his incompleteness theorems, ofc)

@poppermemes @DavidDeutschOxf Wrong. He engaged in core philosophical issues (philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind etc) and developed a rich systematic metaphysics.

Karl Popper was by far the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century and a very moral man. But even he was tainted by the Pattern. The philosopher Joseph Agassi, in his book A Philosopher's Apprentice, described how he tried with very limited success to dissuade the atheist Popper from his strangely uncritical acceptance of supersessionist theology: "In addition to the vulgarity of Popper’s effort to appear Christian in some sense, it made him endorse a kind of anti-Judaism peculiar to Vienna of his early days […] The matter of attitudes to religion was one of the earliest topics of debate that I regularly tried to engage [him] with, once we got close enough to have debates in private […but he] only agreed to omit the most offensive anti-Jewish expressions from later editions of the book."

@germanophile @DavidDeutschOxf all mid except lakatos (gödel not a philosopher)

@DavidDeutschOxf By far the greatest philosopher of 20th century? That is a stretch. Kurt Gödel (his theorem is arguably greatest mathematical achievement of 20th century) Michael Polanyi Ludwig Wittgenstein Ernst Cassirer Imre Lakatos exposed the naïve falsificationism of Karl Popper

ok now ask it to explain the popper-miller theorem (if it gives up before trying, it’s conscious) (kidding but not really) (@MatjazLeonardis the exception)

@mert don’t think ‘smartness’ is a very useful concept, but if we take it to mean something like ‘jaw-dropping creativity’, deutsch’s 1999 paper on the decision-theoretic approach is for sure up there: arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9…

who is the smartest person alive today? if i were to guess, probably: tao, perelman, and deutsch

@_prashan7h counterpoint:

3. Enlightenment values Demis's love for the UK has helped UK tremendously. I love the UK and I'm glad he decided to build here. But my guess is it's more than that. As a modern free English speaking society it's too risky to have all the eggs in one basket (the US).

2. Demis is also Popper-Deutschian. Demis not only understands computation but he also deeply understands epistemology. You will often hear him saying current systems can't conjecture and refute like humans. At least he understands the problem of AGI better than the most.

@elonmusk s

“nObodY hAS a GooD tHeoRy of pRobABilitY”: meanwhile the GOAT: - arxiv.org/abs/1507.03287 - arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9…

in case u are curious: arxiv.org/abs/2205.00568

since people keep asking me for testable predictions that the MWI offers:

@gfish @donttrythis @noetic_emetic

After far too many hours spent sewing on little plastic figures, I present to you: Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan! cc @donttrythis

this is what being a critrat in philosophy academia looks like today btw ⬇️

me looking at the oracle that correctly predicts the outcome of every physical experiment as long as i ask it in the right language