Edward Cree

Linux kernel dev, with Asperger's. Not speaking for employer or anyone else. Bi; date-me doc @

[Edward Cree @ecree429]

Overzealous proofreaders make me sic.

[Edward Cree @ecree429]

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[hyper(bolic) disco(unting) girl @hyperdiscogirl]

oboe

[Edward Cree @ecree429]

@cerebrate nah they didn't demand it that's just what the correct-horse-battery-staple generator came up with. damnedest thing

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@maxtempers (actually the situation is worse even than that because those whose primary occupation is rent-seeking generally have more free time for political advocacy and campaigning than those who are busy producing value)

[Edward Cree @ecree429]

@maxtempers LVT has the same problem as UBI. "Let's replace the stupid things government do with this clean and efficient system" my brother in tullock can you not see. the government is addicted to stupid and will find a way to bring it back. because rent-seekers vote

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@iamaheron_ the alphabet mafia is getting ridiculous, can we just go back to calling it lgb 🙃

[Edward Cree @ecree429]

@esrtweet “I often regret, and even acutely, my want of a Senior Wrangler’s knowledge of physics and mathematics; and I regret still more some habits of mind which a Senior Wrangler is pretty certain to possess.” — Macaulay on the 'silo problem'.

[Edward Cree @ecree429]

@goblinodds yay hydrogen peroxide! launches rockets *and* cures goblins

[Edward Cree @ecree429]

@robinhanson I think there is possibly a sense in which different branches of maths have 'smooth' or 'spiky' truth which affects how sensitive they are to mistakes
Programming lives near a border of almost fractal complexity, pushing the envelope as far as bug load remains (barely) tolerable.

[Edward Cree @ecree429]

@robinhanson Programming is a branch of maths, and technical mistakes there often produce wrong results. Even when formal methods are used. (“Be wary of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tested it.”)

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@LateoRT @TetraspaceWest I'm saying that for any subset of humanity that in any relevant way are disadvantageous to have as citizens relative to the complement, then an anti-that-subset argument is not necessarily equivalent to the https://t.co/66GMzpZouS caricature

[tetraspace 💎⏹️🇺🇳 @TetraspaceWest]

human beings are a cost to a country, not a benefit, and a country is best served by having fewer.

[Edward Cree @ecree429]

@LateoRT @TetraspaceWest (We may be talking at cross-purposes here, in that you perhaps read "argument against having people" as meaning "the targets of this are people" and I read it as "this targets the set 'people'". I think the context of tetra's other posts on the subject supports my reading.)

[Edward Cree @ecree429]

@LateoRT @TetraspaceWest No, it's an argument against having *poor* people. Again not the same thing as an "argument against having people".

[Edward Cree @ecree429]

@LateoRT @TetraspaceWest (Why harming? Because people don't like being lied to, and will assume that if you supported your position with lies there must be an absence of truths that support it.)

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@LateoRT @TetraspaceWest I make no claim here on whether they are *good* arguments, or *compelling* arguments, or outweigh the opposing arguments. But they are logically valid and they do exist, and any open-borders advocacy that *denies* that is actually harming the cause of freedom.

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@RepealTCPA1947 reminds me of die Bielefeld-Verschwörung and German grammar's insistence that all enbys are female

so wollen SIE das du glaubst

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@RepealTCPA1947 If anyone wants to know more about this, the great Nikolas Lloyd has a ramble about it here: https://t.co/2QtYVTofOq
(Chile's assistance during the Falklands conflict, that is, not Top Gear.)

[Edward Cree @ecree429]

@LateoRT @TetraspaceWest Of course not, because the arguments *against* coercive eugenics are far stronger. But denying that *any* argument in favour exists would, again, be intellectually dishonest. "Policy debates should not appear one-sided".

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@Aella_Girl data science isnt real, it cant hurt you