David Piepgrass @dpiepgrass@schelling.pt
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EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
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"Monadal" means an indivisible unit of substance viewed as a basic element of physical reality. "Conscious" means "having qualia". "Qualia" are basic elements of experience, such as "the redness of red" or "how a texture feels".
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I observe that I seem to be monadal, and that evidence/logic "work" in real life if used correctly (where "correctly" means "in such a way that they seem to work better than anything else").
What do these axioms mean?
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As far as I know, I rely on only two foundational axioms:
1. My mind has conscious monadal elements.
2. All other beliefs MUST be based on evidence and logic.
Note that these two beliefs are themselves empirical:
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The correct axioms are those that would lead two unrelated species on two different planets (or at least, Native Americans physically isolated from the Old World) to believe similar things. These are axioms that don't tell you where to go but still lead people to the same place.
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So why isn't "the spirit guides" a good axiom?
Simple—it can lead anywhere. Different "spiritual expeiences" lead to different destinations, often incompatible ones. For one it leads to Buddhism, another Protestantism, another Mormonism, another Islam, another ISIS.
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"High performers fly by intuition," he says. He means "spiritual" intuition. What does this mean? I was only a Christian for over 20 years, so damned if I know.
I think this is unavoidable. Some axioms are necessary, and axioms cannot prove themselves.
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I could summarize it as "axiomatic reasoning in which the axioms are numerous and chosen according to taste."
Like Carlos here, a Christian who thinks reason is overrated—not enough metanoia (repentance) & thymos (heart). https://squarecircle.substack.com/p/no-fire-in-the-equations
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I've come to believe that the biggest problem in the human world is what I call "meme-based" reasoning.
Meme-based reasoning is basically doxastic voluntarism—you hear ideas, you like them, so you choose to believe them. 🧵
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RT @sentdefender
This appears to be the Largest “Probe” ever Conducted by the Chinese Military against Taiwanese Airspace and the Median-Line between the Two Countries.
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RT @ulrichspeck
As there is a broad debate about Macron's remarks about Taiwan -- here's my take:
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RT @igorsushko
#Russia: Russian army torture session of a Russian draftee from North Ossetia ended with the torturer ordering the tortured to purchase a new (not used) sleeping bag for the torturer.
Video in the post below.
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RT @georgewbarros
Thread unpacking my latest @TheStudyofWar assessment with @KatStepanenko.
We assess Russian occupation authorities are likely conducting a campaign of systematic religious persecution in occupied Ukraine in support of a larger campaign of cultural genocide against Ukraine.
🧵
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RT @jasoncrawford
“One universal in the history of childhood stands above all others. The history of childhood is a history of death”
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RT @zeynep
For real. Searching for the word substack on Twitter returns “newsletter”.🤪
What’s next to be hardcoded? Search for Elon returns “the most amazing funniest guy ever”? 🤷♀️ https://twitter.com/sethabramson/status/1644513690761277441
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RT @gordonmcdowell
Created Mastodon account when Twitter blocked it.
Created Substack account when Twitter blocked it. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1533616384747442176
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RT @NOELreports
Remember... A year ago, Russia launched a brutal missile attack on Kramatorsk railway station. It was one of the main evacuation points for residents of Donetsk region.
61 people died, including 7 children.
Never forget. 🕯️
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How media rivalry works in Russia
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RT @AricToler
Kirill Romanovsky, a war correspondent at Prigzohin's RIA FAN, has died. This is reportedly due to non-conflict related medical issues.
Romanovsky connected three independent Russian journos with a fake "UN fixer" in the CAR -- these three journos were murdered shortly after. https://twitter.com/novayagazeta_eu/status/1610651286252183552
https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1610653076213633025
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🧵"I love to use Pinpoint to easily sort through leaked inboxes"
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RT @AricToler
New updates to Google Pinpoint, one of my favorite data collection tools out there -- next month, you'll be able to publicly share your collections (!). Right now it's only possible to share via direct invitation.
https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1612127913192603650
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Command-line tool for search commands that are not in GitHub's UI
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RT @bellingcat
GitHub is one of the most popular code-hosting platforms on the internet.
But it can often be overlooked as a source for online investigators.
The Octosuite tool simplifies the process of investigating GitHub repositories and accounts.
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2023/01/20/octosuite-a-new-tool-to-conduct-open-source-investigations-on-github/
https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1616468259192070144
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RT @AricToler
Norwegian journalists did a pretty in-depth analysis of Hersh's Nord Stream claims as it relates to Norwegian military assets, which were the backbone of his anonymous source's claims.
tl;dr: His source was making stuff up, and Hersh believed him/her.
- Home page
- http://david.loyc.net
EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
