François-René Rideau

Cybernetician, building liberty, love and understanding (for Computing see @ngnghm, for Cryptocurrency see @phanaero)

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Should women vote?—That's a stupid, counter-productive, evil question, because it appeals to subjective assessment and tribal conflict. Now *WHY* should women vote (or not)?—That question leads to useful arguments and to understanding each other. [This tweet is not about women.]

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@jabial Pour les envahisseurs, Vlad III de Valachie avait la bonne solution.

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@itispsychomath @dannypostma What do you think of @nayibbukele's reform of El Salvador?

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@esrtweet @BakerEasy @Devon_Eriksen_ WWI + WWII.

... and American workingmen's joint are also woefully incompetent by French standards (from back when France used not to be an African country, anyway).

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@cremieuxrecueil Non-retired people should be completely tax-exempt, too.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver.

Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître.

Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France.

La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

Any simple numerical score for something that’s complex & subjective (like “quality of life”) is trying to trick you into putting someone else’s values & tastes over your own. The weighting of the factors is a value judgment. Don’t surrender to people who hide values in data.

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@FloridaBoarHog @EndWokeness Why such cruelty? Can't you think of all the poor hungry hogs you're depriving of a meal?

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@EndWokeness The rabid animal should be put down, but also the judge who let it out.

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Blaming "social media" is on the same level of stupidity and evil as shooting the messenger.

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@0x_Luc1us Elon wasn't a good husband? But was she a good wife?

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@whysean @kubla My basilisp has a lisp, so actually it's superperpersuasion.

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Friendly reminder that whereas Roko's Basilisk will torture you a countably infinite number of times if you fail to obey Eliezer, mine will torture you an uncountably infinite number of times if you fail to obey me—up to some unreachable ordinal indeed. That's infinitely more.

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@whysean @kubla Too bad, because my basilisk would have refunded you some uncountably infinite time.

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@hayasaka_aryan Poor migrant didn't know guns were illegal, and murder is a sacred tradition in his country.

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@whysean One Weird Trick: you can outweigh an infinity thumb with a higher infinity feather!
https://t.co/tVrrdZ9xJ3
https://t.co/d6PAyIXEs7

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Friendly reminder that whereas Roko's Basilisk will torture you a countably infinite number of times if you fail to obey Eliezer, mine will torture you an uncountably infinite number of times if you fail to obey me—up to some unreachable ordinal indeed. That's infinitely more.

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@thelameduck1483 Granger fails the rules of magic wand safety: Always keep the want pointed in a safe direction. Treat all wands as if they are charged. Keep your index off your wand until you're ready to cast. Always be sure of your target and what's beyond it.

Malfoy can claim self-defense.

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@PilpsYT What if the operating system isn't compatible with the hardware model?

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@pegobry_en Note how the old men deal with the most dangerous and least healthy parts of the process.