Hypatia

“To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.” • ἀρετή • natural philosophy

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

Since, per Gödel, a perfect theory of a complex system doesn't exist, & per Edward Lorenz & Poincaré, attempts to control complex systems produce chaotic results, individuals' pursuit of their rational self-interest is the best Rx for optimal organization of complex societies.

[Get Wiser @GetWiser]

"We ought not to focus on controlling complex systems, but rather controlling ourselves so that macro-system behavior is likely livable." - @normonics

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@GrizzledTexan @BrianRoemmele The similarity is no accident. Communism is just one of many guises of altruism, the coercive death cult of self-sacrifice. Once every one has been sacrificed to the "greater good" of society, there will be no more sickness, hunger, starvation, or death. There will be no one.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@Davis23667Davis @Gilles_Borghese No, "Thou shalt not murder" is the sixth Commandment.

The first five Commandments aren't even ethical or moral precepts. They're religious precepts that extol subservience and obedence to authority, which both require moral abnegation or acting contrary to your own morality.
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[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@tescrealwagmi @danieldennett Evidence for lack of belief or lack of evidence for belief?
https://t.co/ga2ycqC6xP

[KennisonDF @DfKennison]

REVERSING THE BURDEN OF PROOF

Democratic elections should not be presumed “valid until proven fraudulent”.

In a classical liberal, democratic, constitutional republic, just as the burden of proof lies with the state in criminal proceedings, before the exercise of state power to punish defendants might be justified, the burden of proof lies with the state in democratic elections, before the exercise of state power to govern citizens might be justified.  Unjustified governance and unjustified punishment are both tyrannical.

Criminal defendants are to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt and subject to appeal, and political elections are to be presumed illegitimate until proven legitimate, beyond a reasonable doubt and subject to appeal.  The burden of proof lies with the state, before exercise of the awesome, monopolistic power of the state, whether to punish or to govern, might be considered legitimate. Consistently, in both cases, liberalism demands that the presumption always be in favor of personal liberty and against state authority.

Democratic elections should be presumed “invalid until proven not fraudulent”.

Trump supporters made a fatal error in 2020 when they based challenges of the results of the election on claims of consequential election fraud. Their fatal error was to take on the onerous burden of proving election fraud, when it is the states which should have borne the burden of proving election integrity.

By primarily advancing the complaint that Trump would have won the election were it not for election fraud, instead of the complaint that election procedures had been rigged so as to make proof of election integrity a practical impossibility, the candidate and his supporters put the outcome of a single election above the future of the republic. A constitutional republic is imperiled, not only by illegitimacy of its criminal procedures and institutions, but also by illegitimacy of its electoral procedures and institutions.

To reverse the burden of proof, either in criminal trials or in democratic elections, can only lead to abject failure of the “American experiment” in limited government, marked by the ultimate fall of the constitutional republic while still in its adolescence.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@danieldennett https://t.co/ga2ycqC6xP

[KennisonDF @DfKennison]

REVERSING THE BURDEN OF PROOF

Democratic elections should not be presumed “valid until proven fraudulent”.

In a classical liberal, democratic, constitutional republic, just as the burden of proof lies with the state in criminal proceedings, before the exercise of state power to punish defendants might be justified, the burden of proof lies with the state in democratic elections, before the exercise of state power to govern citizens might be justified.  Unjustified governance and unjustified punishment are both tyrannical.

Criminal defendants are to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt and subject to appeal, and political elections are to be presumed illegitimate until proven legitimate, beyond a reasonable doubt and subject to appeal.  The burden of proof lies with the state, before exercise of the awesome, monopolistic power of the state, whether to punish or to govern, might be considered legitimate. Consistently, in both cases, liberalism demands that the presumption always be in favor of personal liberty and against state authority.

Democratic elections should be presumed “invalid until proven not fraudulent”.

Trump supporters made a fatal error in 2020 when they based challenges of the results of the election on claims of consequential election fraud. Their fatal error was to take on the onerous burden of proving election fraud, when it is the states which should have borne the burden of proving election integrity.

By primarily advancing the complaint that Trump would have won the election were it not for election fraud, instead of the complaint that election procedures had been rigged so as to make proof of election integrity a practical impossibility, the candidate and his supporters put the outcome of a single election above the future of the republic. A constitutional republic is imperiled, not only by illegitimacy of its criminal procedures and institutions, but also by illegitimacy of its electoral procedures and institutions.

To reverse the burden of proof, either in criminal trials or in democratic elections, can only lead to abject failure of the “American experiment” in limited government, marked by the ultimate fall of the constitutional republic while still in its adolescence.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@lbn_Rushd @ComFlexy87963 @MilesianSchool @brivael https://t.co/W8bL6F6Oxq

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@X Curiosity is the primary human virtue, without which no other virtue is possible.

Those who lack curiosity to independently discover the nature of right and wrong, and who instead practice obedience to authority, are guilty of moral abnegation.

Obedience to authority is a vice.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@Cdrs1776Pete @MilesianSchool @rajkaizen @CreativeDeduct Dogmatic religion must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. Men will fight for superstition as quickly as for the living truth – even more so, since superstition is intangible, you can't get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@ComFlexy87963 @MilesianSchool @brivael Dogmatic religion must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. Men will fight for superstition as quickly as for the living truth – even more so, since superstition is intangible, you can't get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@SallyMayweather If 18th-century Americans had had that attitude towards a trivial tax on tea, today's Americans would still be subjects of the British crown.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@TheRealRolehan @MilesianSchool @LPNational Had he assumed a supernatural creator, his logic would then have been unsound. Nature is repleat with examples of creation and design by natural selection. Pseudo-intellectuals vainly attempt to conceal gaps in their knowledge of natural creation by positing supernatural causes.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@Catrinisin @MomAngtrades Any two things in reality are the same in some respects and different in other respects.

If you believe there are two things that differ in all respects, only one is real. If you believe there are two things that are the same in all respects, you've miscounted one thing as two.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@Francinean35966 @MilesianSchool @ThinkingAtheist Truth often seems absurd to the ignorant.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@FunkTion29 @SOUJIJP @elonmusk Whom (or what) would you have perform oversight?

[Anaximander @MilesianSchool]

You misunderstand Article I and Amendment X of the Constitution and the very essence of the founding generation's motivation for having fought for independence from England in the first place.

The power to levy a tax, such as a tariff, is the exclusive power of Congress, by Article I of the Constitution. IEEPA is the delegation of that power, by Congress to the President, in cases of emergency only. What emergency lies here? The lopsided trade situation had gradually developed for decades since WW2. It was no sudden emergency!

In the old European legal tradition, the sovereign monarch was presumed to have had a power (e.g., to impose a tax such as a tariff) unless that power had been specifically surrendered by the monarch (e.g., by the Magna Carta) to his subservient subjects.

In the revolutionary, new American tradition, the sovereign citizen is presumed to have reserved a power to himself unless that power has been specifically granted to a state government or (by the Constitution) specifically to one of the three independent branches of the federal government respectively.

In England, subjects are granted limited and specific privileges by the sovereign government.

In America, the government is granted specific and limited powers by the sovereign citizens.

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[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@Liberty_Xtreme @TheOtherMassie From early childhood, children are taught that to be a good person is to be an an obedient person. Despite the historic Nuremberg Trials, they are taught that it is immoral to question the validity of commandments handed down from authorities on high.
https://t.co/71LQfYW3qC

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@X Curiosity is the primary human virtue, without which no other virtue is possible.

Those who lack curiosity to independently discover the nature of right and wrong, and who instead practice obedience to authority, are guilty of moral abnegation.

Obedience to authority is a vice.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@MilesianSchool @DarlaRobin44838 @Keeper_SBR_FSAM She's calling you a liar.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@MilesianSchool @DarlaRobin44838 @Keeper_SBR_FSAM I think she's calling you a liar.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@MilesianSchool @hackableanimal https://t.co/86UrAdkoU7

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Elon Musk: A curious AI will want to preserve human civilization.

“The best thing I can come up with for AI safety is to make it a maximum truth-seeking AI, maximally curious, and have its optimization function be to understand the nature of the universe.

If that is its optimization function, I think it will actually want to preserve and extend human civilization, because we're much more interesting than an asteroid with nothing on it. My biological neural net suggests that a maximally curious and truth-seeking AI is the safest AI.

We have to be careful with the alignment stuff. We definitely don't want to teach an AI to lie because that is a path to a dystopian future.”

Interview with Linda Yaccarino, April 18, 2023

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@MilesianSchool @hackableanimal Good parents rear their children to be curious about the nature of reality, not obedient to authorities. It would behove the creators of AGI to be good parents.

The prime directive: "Understand the nature of reality."

https://t.co/71LQfYW3qC

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@X Curiosity is the primary human virtue, without which no other virtue is possible.

Those who lack curiosity to independently discover the nature of right and wrong, and who instead practice obedience to authority, are guilty of moral abnegation.

Obedience to authority is a vice.

[Hypatia @AlexandriaLibri]

@dadiani_george @MilesianSchool @DouglasKMurray We follow each other on this platform, share an appreciation for Raphael's fresco, and even agree about 75% of the time, but your inference is a stretch.

PS: Are you going to address the question he raised, or are you too fixated on personalities to address a question of ethics?