Doctor Subtilis

- Courtiser des brunes, c'est renoncer à la vie.
- Angenommen, die Wahrheit wäre @anyataylorjoy – was dann?
- Adaequatio rei et intellectus
- πάντα πλήρη θεῶν

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

A patriot and a scholar. His analysis of Tuscan realpolitik was essentially flawless. Applying the Prince to cases not involving a Tuscan prince is fraught with potential for error, but the basic lesson--that you need to at least understand realpolitik--is universal.

What are my results?

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

@LizzyStarrrdust These are different right wing men.

[Josh Watson @JoshuaLWatson]

how do materialists explain the existence of an infinity of uncreated, transcendent forms that our immortal souls recollect owing to our pre-existent grasping of the changeless realm of what is?

do they just not know about that?

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

@BobMurphyEcon precisely

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

Ok, I did. The version from Quinining Qualia.

Take his statement "The infallibilist line on qualia treats them as properties of one's experience one cannot in principle misdiscover, and this is a mysterious doctrine (at least as mysterious as papal infallibility) unless we shift the emphasis a little and treat qualia as logical constructs out of subjects' qualia-judgments: a subject's experience has the quale F if and only if the subject judges his experience to have quale F"

But precisely the problem is that a (second person) subject's qualia can only ever be a logical construct for me. I have no direct access to the qualia themselves.

So imagine that a lone explorer discovered an island, made rich observations about the unique flora and fauna there. Then just after he left the island exploded from an underwater caldera, utterly obliterating everything that was there.

It would seem strange to say that there was no fact of the matter about what the explorer observed. Yet, those observations can never be more than a logical construct for anyone else.

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

@keithfrankish @AgentOrangeNZ And its the loadings you object to?

Relatedly, in Dennett's Chase and Sanborn intuition pump it seems to me that Dennett is elucidating the hard problem of consciousness rather than dispelling qualia.

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

@PAHoyeck Couldn't you just say the philosopher in question was Plato

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

@keithfrankish @AgentOrangeNZ Couldn't we just restate it by saying phenomenal consciousness?

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

@wil_da_beast630 Somebody's got to take away her coke.

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

@binarybits He

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

@Noahpinion Congenital blindness?

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

@AlanMCole Have you read the original tweet? Makes perfect sense.

https://t.co/9FXLl5rMjb

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

@wil_da_beast630 Et voilà

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

@RichardHanania I am genuinely trying to understand here, do you consider partisanship to be identity politics?

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

Obviously depends on what they were optimizing over but I doubt this is true. It seems much more likely that late 1800s, or post World War Two would get the nod. Allowing for more diverse optima the Asian Tiger in the 70s to 90s, British North America especially above the Mason-Dixon early 1700s, Northern Song early 1100s, and France 1250-1280 just to name a few.

A lot depends on whether you are fully controlling for preexisting technology and whether or not you put a lot of weight on ends achieved through limited government.

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

@lizisamused What was even the point of that?

[Doctor Subtilis @thesubtledoctor]

@captgouda24 I would suggest having a form. You'll get people for whom the cold email is too much of a hill. Yes, you'll probably get trolls too but the increased coverage is probably worth it.

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

I am looking for a partner. If you would like to talk, please do reach out! It’d be really wonderful. Link to the date-me doc is below; now pls pls pls pls algorithm send this far and wide!