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@mpopv *sees the world make 13,000 nuclear warheads* *waits 30 seconds* "Fears of nuclear war have evaporated. How stupid the worriers must feel."

@naturallymike @bernardtjoy Oh, they know. They hate science, except when they can win points for larping that they love it.

@bernardtjoy You also can't ignore that it’s one of the most validated and replicated measures in all of psychology. It doesn’t capture everything (nothing does) but pretending it doesn't measure intelligence or predict outcomes is patently anti-scientific.

Anyone who thinks of intelligence in terms of IQ is low-IQ.

@SteveBudak @bernardtjoy A preposition is not a thing to be ending a sentence with!

@bernardtjoy Anyone who speaks in Absolutes is absolutely full of .... things ? Never say never again. People should NEVER speak in absolutes.

@Pseud0Methodius @bernardtjoy IQ correlates very strongly with success, and more so if you control for e.g. conscientiousness. You must avoid confusing "what has never been answered" with "what Count Magnus doesn't know because he's a dolt".

@bernardtjoy Many people with lower IQs do very well in life, and many with higher IQs who struggle. Two questions that have never been answered are what does IQ measure? And is it worth measuring?

@Dr_Atoosa What's with this divide between Flat Earth theorist and mainstream Oblate Spheroidists? Surely they both have something to offer!

Why are philosophers still clinging to the analytic–continental divide? It is 2026! We should be past it! The split now often closes doors to creative thinking and protects academic tribes. Philosophers of science and technology over the past century largely moved on by engaging history of science and STS, and their field became richer for it. The rest of philosophy should do the same. There are obscure continental philosophers, yes, but also plenty of analytic philosophers who manufacture tiny problems and solve them for an audience of twelve and claim pride for that achievement. What matters in our world of many open problems is whether a thinker is clear, interesting, and actually helps us understand or solve something important.

@Dr_Atoosa All philosophy is obviously a waste of time but continental philosophy is just *evil*.

@maximusbillz @DouthatNYT There are more than two options — in fact you can be a Christian communist — and Christianity is a lot older than the renaissance and the scientific and industrial revolutions. Pathetic attempt at argumentation; you must be at least a bishop.

@usablejam @DouthatNYT Existence is both sublime and a fallen state. Maybe God wants us to figure it out. Only Animals are atheists. It is telling that the age of Christ has anchored a scientific revolution, cured diseases, built modernity —whereas communism leads to mass death and suffering. A clue!

One point is just that Christianity doesn't think the universe is ever causally closed to divine intervention. The miracles are right there in the gospels, the Resurrection is unique but not because it's miraculous. x.com/cxgonzalez/sta…

@maximusbillz @DouthatNYT But your gods are worse! They torture people in hell for eternity!

@usablejam @DouthatNYT Sounds like godless aliens. Who cares what they do. God spoke to us

@Hitchslap1 False!

You can silence a hundred wise men with a single fact: you cannot silence one fool with a hundred facts. IQ matters. Think about it.

@maximusbillz @DouthatNYT Imagine a society of aliens that has mastered biology. They are immortal. They torture their kids for the first 100 years of their lives. "It's OK, it's only 0% of their eternity!" No, torture is still bad.

@usablejam @DouthatNYT Death is only the end if you are an atheist

@maximusbillz @DouthatNYT 1) No, it's the end for you too, you just choose to believe in a fairy tale. 2) Letting people suffer is bad even if they don't die!

@maximusbillz @DouthatNYT Some of us try, but figuring out biology is hard, and if a good god existed, humans would not need to.

@usablejam @DouthatNYT Sounds like things that humans can already do … if they are good enough

@bitcloud @NewJerusalemAI Consciousness is not all that humans do! Pooping is not consciousness, or necessary for it!

@NewJerusalemAI Is that all birds do?

This is the thing "LLMs are conscious" people think is the same as a matrix multiplication.

@bitcloud Consciousness is when a computer is smart and aware, not "any cell".

@maximusbillz @DouthatNYT Also, the most miserable people are not usually comfortable. They are usually being tortured to death. If your idea of "the world's most miserable person" is "affluenza", you are probably not paying very much attention!

@usablejam @DouthatNYT What does “good” mean? The most comfortable people seem to be the most miserable.

@xwanyex Dogs are mostly better people than you

The problem is that this is deranged and delusional

@kilovh Science wins again! Stupid demons.

What if even those procedures we do not intend to quantize are sufficiently contaminated by our quantified way of thinking that they rule out demons by default

What if scientific experiments never see demons because demons cannot benefit from anything that's been measured or counted

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