Dennis Hackethal

Author. Software engineer. I study the mind and build tools for thinkers. Founder @veritula. Ex Apple. Translator of The Beginning of Infinity

[Dennis Hackethal @dchackethal]

New homepage 🥳
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Evidence of goat insentience. Stitching acoustic_stimulation on IG

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Evidence of dog insentience. Stitching huxleythepandapuppy from Tik Tok

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@runaway_vol https://t.co/KAMoOPn10z

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

@paulg Are you telling me that you don’t want to read posts from Jürgen at SAP (Düsseldorf Office) talk about corporate innovation?

[Dennis Hackethal @dchackethal]

@EP_Freely @SoulCultivated Correspondence with the facts. What do you think it is

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

These people are the villains out of Atlas Shrugged. Rand was a prophet because she understood that philosophy moves the world.

The tax will NOT soften any blow. It does the opposite. It delays and raises the cost of everything AI is already solving: cancer and Alzheimer's research, safer surgery, faster diagnosis, software that makes developers and businesses more productive, tools that help writers think. Tax the data centers and you slow all of it.

But she sees none of that. She sees only money to loot for her "causes." The producer is the threat to be managed, the disruption a pretext, the seizure a virtue.

They never create. They only wait for someone else to build something worth taking, then arrive with a tax and a speech about who they're cushioning. A despicable bunch indeed.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Listen up AI nerds: here’s the deal.

We need you to give 50% of your companies to the government and then pay a 50% unrealized capital gains tax on the rest. And then a 37% Federal Tax and a 13.3% California tax. And tip 30%.

And don’t let any of this affect your growth rates or shut your companies down.

We’ll need more money next year.

We’re spending $80B repaving the parking lots of every Learing Center in the country.

Greater good.

[Dennis Hackethal @dchackethal]

Add Karl Popper and David Deutsch to that list

[Jack V Lloyd @jackvlloyd]

Some of the greatest philosophers and economists for liberty have Jewish ancestry.

Javier Milei
Ludwig von Mises
Murray Rothbard
Ayn Rand
Milton Friedman
Robert Nozick
Israel Kirzner
David D. Friedman
Jack Lloyd
Walter Block
Henry Hazlitt
Michael Malice

It's incredible to see!

[Dennis Hackethal @dchackethal]

@reason_wit_me How sad a school should be named after him

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Karl-Popper-Straße!

[Michaela @austria63amy]

Good night from Vienna 🇦🇹

[Dennis Hackethal @dchackethal]

I’m a fan of Popper too. I think he produced much better work on epistemology than Oism, at least from what I’ve read. (I’ve read lots of Popper and a fair amount of Oism.)

My main criticism of him is that he had a soft spot for socialism and thought too highly of democracy and of Kant.

I agree there’s large overlap between Popper and Oism. For example, both are fallibilists (at least pre-Peikoff).

I agree with your observation that Popper’s criticis don’t understand him. Which is weird because he always writes simply and clearly.

[Dennis Hackethal @dchackethal]

@EP_Freely No that doesn’t like popper. He says we create *new* knowledge. It does come from within, but it’s new regardless. It’s just not the discovery of knowledge that was hidden away. And the bit about a past life is obviously mystical

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@reason_wit_me @austria63amy Aww hell yea

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@BernieSanders Read: to give *the government* 50% ownership

[Dennis Hackethal @dchackethal]

Id guess gravity (relativity) is the wrong theory and dark matter is an ad-hoc cope

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Is dark matter real, or is gravity the wrong theory? ✍️

[Dennis Hackethal @dchackethal]

As an engineer, there’s some disappointment in getting something right on the first try.
It may sound counterintuitive, but when things go wrong, there’s room for growth. I can debug errors and *learn*.
But if I get it right on the first try, then I’m already… done.

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

60 years ago today, Surveyor I made a three-point soft landing on the Moon—the first soft landing for America's space program—AND accomplished on its first try. Over the next 6 weeks it returned more than 11,000 images of the lunar surface including this one featuring its shadow.

The mission was one of the great successes of NASA's early lunar program.

[Dennis Hackethal @dchackethal]

@brave Buggy as hell btw. When I minimize brave YouTube stops playing and I have to hit play in the control center within seconds or it loses the track completely

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@NatureUnedited How do you know it’s happy

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@JPKivisto @Sam_kuyp We don’t grow knowledge by finding secure foundations and deriving conclusions from them. We grow knowledge by guessing solutions to problems and correcting errors in those guesses

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@photon010 He did nothing wrong

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@jasonfried @MindMyF1tness @DKThomp At 100 yeah probably. I’ve seen some remarkable strong and youthful 80 year olds though. They all lifted weights. I expect them to do much better than the average 100-year-old