Pearls_Before_Quine

tweets don't represent my employer

[Pearls_Before_Quine @BeforeQuine]

@Huxx777 @whstancil Quite a few countries ban convict labor actually, even more ban unpaid convict labor.

[constans @constans]

The best thing the U.S. does, which specifically benefits you and the rest of the world on a daily basis, is have a huge navy that protects shipping lanes so that cargo can travel safely

[MajoraZ @Majora__Z]

While it doesn't cover that specific piece, the paper "Teotihuacan in Mexico-Tenochtitlan Recent Discoveries, New Insight" talks about multiple cases of both the Aztec reusing and modifying art or art motifs from earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, and then Europeans in turn taking or modifying some of those pieces and bringing them back to Europe.

One particular example is a Teotihuacano mask (~200-500AD) which the Aztec retrieved and modified (~1300-1519 AD) with new eye inlays, which then was brought to Europe and fell into the hands of the Medicis (of which a few pieces like this did, the first image here is another) who further modified it.

Also, of course, Feather Mosaic "paintings" produced by Aztec, Purepecha, etc artists using techniques used for prehispanic warsuits, shields, garments, ornaments, and textiles that then were commissioned by the Spanish with Catholic themes are always a treat, see pics 3-4

See "ALT" labels for info about each image, credits, etc.

[“paula” @paularambles]

scandinavian societies: these foreigners don't understand our culture!
scandinavian culture:

[Pearls_Before_Quine @BeforeQuine]

@limonpoker @whstancil Not interested in debating whether or not they *should* count, but this tweet was 100% made with Chapo Trap House in mind.

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@LesserMidas @dangainor @JerusalemDemsas @glukianoff If you Google something like "divorce rate over time USA" you'll find it's a consistent result from a wide variety of sources, which is probably more reliable than any one thing I throw out there.

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@LesserMidas @dangainor @JerusalemDemsas @glukianoff The divorce rate is falling.

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@HowlandR33d @vanillaopinions https://t.co/X8wrwd4sv5

She's still right but man I had forgotten just how annoying this video is

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@Nullbias @Hellb4ch @zeeby_x @Hamalisk @abcampbell @br4s1d4s You can short circuit this conversation by going to Wikipedia and looking up what a "solved game" is

[Pearls_Before_Quine @BeforeQuine]

The third incompleteness theorem states that no machine capable of effective computation can also install CUDA on the first try

[Pearls_Before_Quine @BeforeQuine]

@Rho_die @d08890 That's not true, even if it sure seems like it would be to you. You can read many of the accounts online.

Here's Cortes: https://t.co/Vp8mU9g1mE

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@Sydonahi @jayvains @nypost FWIW I'm significantly less qualified re: this stuff than you here, super 100% open to being wrong here.

[Pearls_Before_Quine @BeforeQuine]

@Sydonahi @jayvains @nypost -lanation (I'm skeptical), but there's no claim of the community as a whole being unwilling to admit it or suppressing him or anything, the interview ends with him saying "yeah, if we get better data and it looks like I'm right I think people will come around."

[Pearls_Before_Quine @BeforeQuine]

@jayvains @Sydonahi @nypost I'm not seeing-- based on this interview alone-- how he's being particularly irresponsible, he seems pretty candid about thinking it's the *better* explanation but that reasonable people mostly disagree but could change their mind if better evidence is found one way or the other.

[Pearls_Before_Quine @BeforeQuine]

@jayvains @Sydonahi @nypost It's not the consensus hypothesis and it's certainly an *exciting* one, but it doesn't seem to be completely ridiculous besides (reasonable) priors pointing away from it. You can find plenty of other reasonable, legitimate people in the field discussing the same thing,

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@jayvains @Sydonahi @nypost He's been publishing peer-reviewed work on this though.

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@SellarsRespectr Worth it

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@SellarsRespectr He gave a talk at my alma mater's (tiny) philosophy department once that I drove two hours down to be able to attend. He went on a substantial digression about the emotional state of cats. "A lot of people think cat's can't feel shame, that's not true, I've seen cats feel shame"