Darius Robson

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@TheHalcyonSavan @DavidDeutschOxf @rolandkuhn @DouglasCarswell Lectures should be voluntary and open to criticism, yes.

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@DavidDeutschOxf @rolandkuhn @DouglasCarswell Yes. And the facts should be taught regardless of political controversy, to help counter the libels.

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@DavidDeutschOxf @rolandkuhn @DouglasCarswell Yes. Educational institutions should be unapologetically rational. Political disagreements often stem from deeper philosophical differences, so this will inevitably align with some positions more than others. I agree that teachers shouldn't reveal their personal political views.

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@DavidDeutschOxf @rolandkuhn @DouglasCarswell For example, teaching an accurate history of the Israel/Palestine conflict would currently be controversial across political parties, yet it is of huge importance.

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@DavidDeutschOxf @rolandkuhn @DouglasCarswell The difficulty is that many people now regard claims to objectivity or rationality as political positions in their own right. If so, how can a teacher avoid signalling a political stance?

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@rolandkuhn @DavidDeutschOxf @DouglasCarswell I agree, but that itself could be seen as a political position.

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@DavidDeutschOxf @MaxNordau Similarly I’ve had people tell me they think X is happening because their “trusted” news source says so. They would do well to read On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance.

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@bnielson01 @DavidDeutschOxf https://t.co/ecp4Lf6xqF

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

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[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@bnielson01 @DavidDeutschOxf I think it was on Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@AntSpeaks @DavidDeutschOxf This is a strange aspect of the Pattern.
It doesn’t require intent. The outcome still legitimises harm to Jews as Jews. Disturbingly, rational scrutiny breaks down enough for an obvious historical and moral error to pass through multiple layers of review unnoticed.

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@KofGondor @DavidDeutschOxf @AntigoneJournal I disagree that it’s a core aim. I see education primarily as the exchange and explanation of ideas. A university lecturer’s goal typically isn’t to shape behaviour, but to help students understand and criticise explanations — and I think school education should aim at the same.

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@DavidDeutschOxf @AntigoneJournal Yes. There also seems to be an underlying view that education is about shaping behaviour — turning creative people into desk-sitters who regurgitate information.

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@DavidDeutschOxf @AntigoneJournal Strange. Does this stem from an obsession with testing—where the tests really end up measuring how good they are at subjugating students?

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@DavidDeutschOxf Remove barriers to cheap food and energy, as high costs discourage people from starting families

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@DavidDeutschOxf @noumenoveau And pessimism

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@hal_incandenza4 @DavidDeutschOxf @JensHonack @nivi They’re abstract, but the limits they reveal—like the undecidability of halting—apply to physical computers too. So the unpredictability isn’t just mathematical; it has real-world consequences.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

@DariusRRobson @JensHonack @nivi Yes I'm sure the unpredictability of the growth of knowledge is connected with that of Turing machines. And AGIs are associated with a class of Turing machines. But they're not the same. E.g. halting is about what happens in the asymptotic future. Creativity is finite.

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@DavidDeutschOxf @JensHonack @nivi What about the halting of Turing machines?

[Darius Robson @DariusRRobson]

@PrometheusCHT @DavidDeutschOxf https://t.co/AGnhxtE87d

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

Postmodernism has taken a deep truth from Popperian epistemology (namely experience is theory-laden and needs to be criticised), misunderstood it, and used it to justify the opposite (experience is infallible and mustn't be criticised).