François Benoux
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Il n'y a pas de liberté et d'égalité sans fraternité | faire prévaloir la vérité
Oh great! The the 6,660th person I follow ends up being @AIsatan4safety ! 🤦♂️
Le Pen’s party won every single French department except for Paris. Every single department. This is like Trump winning every single state except DC.
Can Europeans please describe to us Americans what has just happened with Macron and the election there? And what happens next? Testing out leveraging X for shared learning instead of reading news reports. Would love for this thread to help educate me and also serve as a resource for other Americans because the way the European systems work are quite different than over here. Thanks friends 🙏
#Breaking The formerly Russian-occupied parts of Germany want to be Russian-occupied again. 45.7% voted for pro-Kremlin, anti-European parties that want to leave NATO and join a Russian-led security apparatus. 41.5% voted for govt. coalition parties and the main opposition party.
while it would be very sad if the jewish people of israel were driven from their land i would view the aftermath in the region with a certain kind of amusement as aid dollars cratered and the palestinians quickly realize they have no ability whatsoever to run a normal society
@LughSpear Life of many is like browsing items in a grossery store with labels and prices. There is something weird going on in the mind that thinks in simple labels, recognises errors as labels and reacts by saying « look this label here! Look that label there ! ».
@HipsterSmoothie But you can deny causation
back in the days if you were still a virgin by 18 you were considered a loser. please, for the love of god, go have sex
Is deductive reasoning a lost art? 1/ Deductive: principles → logical consequences Inductive: observations/evidence → general principles During the last 300 years, deductive reasoning (including Plato) has been increasingly demonized as dogmatic & non-scientific.
All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality. Because Galileo saw this, and particularly because he drummed it into the scientific world, he is the father of modern physics – indeed, of modern science altogether. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) as mentioned in Einstein's essays in science translated by Alan Harris (1934)
Yesterday, psychedelic research strategist Bob Jesse of @JHPsychedelics said the quiet part out loud about the spiritual goals of his research. After describing some recent revelations about Christianity, he sets up a strawman of criticisms for Hopkins' religious research and downplays glaring ethical concerns. After a false dichotomy of options, he offers this: "If what we're interested in is people waking up....we should feel free to use techniques other than just a psychoactive to add (with consent and transparency) all these other cues that may be meaningful to a person to, if you will, 'fire on all cylinders.'" So a major funder and strategist of @JHPsychedelics (also deeply connected and influential on Lykos/MAPS' research) feels justified in "cueing" vulnerable subjects with "techniques." In this case, priming, hypnotizing, and manipulating religious people while under the influence of suggestible drugs. Wake up from what? Wake up to what? This is what Bob Jesse sees as the role of science? What he is describing is not science, but an unapolgetic tool of coercive psychedelic evangelism.
@ItIsHoeMath There is an implied premise that causation is more important than correlation. It’s not. Correlation is more broad & important than causation. Example : we could detect genetic diseases for unknown genes with markers (RFLP correlation) with no causal link.
