The equations of the universe are deterministic. Randomness is a psyop. Eternal return is real. https://t.co/spgr4ovU13
— Simon DeDeo (@SimonDeDeo) April 14, 2021
Nope! That model is deterministic.
However, the universe probably is not. That paper is a bit dense, and I’m expanding on it some here, but either there is true quantum indeterminism or the many-worlds interpretation is true.
There aren’t any other plausible possibilities.
This anti-sex stance by big tech is imo one of the worst things we’ve all quietly accepted as being completely normal and ok https://t.co/TvNzCPawXm
— Oliver Sachgau (@sachgau) April 13, 2021
Every bit of this is by “liberals” too. Every single bit.
Apple’s regressive stance on sexual content being available on its largest platform is verging on a full on moral panic and it’s really gross. Entire businesses and communities have been crushed by it, and it often hurts queer and trans communities most.https://t.co/jfGfhpPBZm
— Matthew Bischoff (@mb) April 13, 2021
Matches the general prudishness of liberals at large. It used to be that conservatives were the huge prudes. In some ways they still are, but are being in many areas surpassed by libs. I think in general these days, liberals are more prudish than conservatives because their prudishness is more all-encompassing.
This Artist Makes Portraits By Precisely Breaking Glass with a Hammer.
Me too. I call mine “Portrait of Glass I’ve Hulk-smashed the Fuck Out of Lying on the Ground.”
It’s quite groundbreaking work. I mean, glass-breaking.
Blood clots as prevalent with Pfizer and Moderna vaccine as with AstraZeneca’s: study.
Now the “experts” are going to yank all the vaccines over an extremely tiny risk?
Possiblilty of 500,000+ extra deaths in that scenario, all to save what, 20 or 30 people? So you know we’re gonna do it.
Where's the abundance of caution around preventing death from covid https://t.co/g8hdgz5W6F
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) April 13, 2021
Where indeed? Especially for countries like South Africa where the J&J vaccine is all there is.
We are so, so bad at handling risk.
More, very encouraging data! https://t.co/0A4aznv51i
— Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH (@JenniferNuzzo) April 15, 2021
But…experts told me herd immunity (with vaccines or not) was impossible and we shouldn’t even try for it. And millions of dipshits were aping that on Twitter and elsewhere.
Figure that out. Because I can’t.
The "listen to experts/science" crowd needs to see the problem: well-credentialed experts IN YOUR FIELD have confident, contradictory assertions all over the place. So it turns into "which experts" which turns into "ones I like"—not really a manageable process for ordinary folks.
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) April 14, 2021
It’s cool and fun seeing PhD epidemiologists and virologists offering directly contradictory statements. Surely the normal folks out there will be able to choose the right one? No?
Wow I can’t believe three of the four golden girls are minor-coded. pic.twitter.com/J271KzncFy
— Someone’s failed-clone’s daughter/granddaughter (@MarienneMaid) April 12, 2021
Dammit!
With all due respect to @NateSilver538, he is not an expert on the psychology of vaccine confidence. He is a poll aggregator and political pundit. He is not an infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist, vaccinologist, virologist, immunologist, or behavioral scientist. pic.twitter.com/HBrI6zj9aa
— Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA (@celinegounder) April 14, 2021
Fuck I cannot believe I have to defend Nate Silver from these “experts,” but I guess sometimes one has to do distasteful things because they are correct.
It’s certain that the media and “experts” amplifying absolutely minuscule risks will increase vaccine hesitancy. One doesn’t need 20 PhDs to determine this — just a semi-working brain. Even if it’s the right decision in most contexts, it still will do this.
Also this paper (by Doug French, who was the head of the Mises Institute) argues that Tulipmania was basically due to the oversupply in silver currency in Holland, partially because of pirates bringing home Spanish booty. The new money had to go somewhere… so why not 🌷? pic.twitter.com/kVzm1hzsqt
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) April 14, 2021
Maybe I just take such things for granted, but speculation requires excess currency as a matter of course. How else would it occur?
These People Should Be Required to Get Vaccinated.
All people who are medically capable of getting the vaccination should be required to get it.
If you had any doubts we live in a superstitious culture, look at how people are now treating individual words, as if they were fetishes, inanimate objects possessed of demonic, contaminating powers.
— Patrick Lee Miller (@Plato4Now) March 3, 2021
Raised in a climate where words hold all power, like many are, it’s no surprise that many come to believe spells work. Alas power is not really that way.
Love it. Guess I’m just a sucker for performers who do works warm and playful.