Fred Tores

autodidata visual artist curious about other fields

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@0xNoraa The myth of genius still making the rounds.

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@DavidDeutschOxf https://t.co/iOQBTJvK5W

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@ToKTeacher "After World 3, one can keep adding worlds infinitely, like turtles. A dualistic framework that refuses to engage with its own foundational flaws while, ironically, seeming to have been written to be unfalsifiable."

*Genuine quote*

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@reasonisfun The cult of agnotology

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@DavidDeutschOxf @reasonisfun Agrippan skepticism with a smile or the negative optimist:

S1 ← S2 ← S3 ← … ← S

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@ToKTeacher @DavidDeutschOxf @triggerpod For A to assert "no one can find X," A must have knowledge about X—that it's unfindable. But having knowledge about X is finding something about X. Therefore, A has found what A claims cannot be found.

Pangloss would've been proud. Voltaire too.

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@Sam_kuyp @DavidDeutschOxf @SantoDAgostino @Leo_Glisic Infinite regress is beautiful. You can explain the explanation forever. Pangloss mastered this. Voltaire noticed. And somewhere, a many-worlds theorist is typing another layer of justification.

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@hkozachkov @DavidDeutschOxf Exactly, which makes DD points above wrong headed, it’s like a defense mechanism against everyone that isn’t MW follower. Either you are with us or against us, not both a the same time :#

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@DrTomFroese https://t.co/RLG7ySym2c

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@ToKTeacher @jimmycarr @DavidDeutschOxf Relativist healerism is on trend objectively.

#happytunes

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@PaulRRobichaud Avoids having to defend the actual moral claim.
Creates a fake ontological problem (knowledge without adequately explained knowers).
Makes the position unfalsifiable—any counterevidence becomes “just differences in knowledge”.

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@ToKTeacher You can always critic rational criticism priests.

: sudo

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@Melle1763203 @anilkseth @SussexCentre @RCarhartHarris I wasn’t referring to that. I meant that I couldn’t proceed with the survey because it included questions about dosage, and my experiences weren’t drug-related—so I had no dosage to report…

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@ToKTeacher @noncompleteness For example, change is a concept therefore cannot be silent. Literally.

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@ToKTeacher @noncompleteness “There’s often a tendency on this platform to put poetry and metaphor ahead of sense, reality and clarity.”

[NB @Noahbolanowski]

Keith Haring in 1989: "[Digital Art is] going to politically & ideologically revolutionize the concept of what is a visual work of art & what the value of a work of art is… Many people are very threatened that I'm making art… by working on the computer."

[Physical Review Letters @PhysRevLett]

Cluster dynamics in macroscopic photoactive particles #CoolVideo
https://t.co/Pz7rrkZueN

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@DrTomFroese @tomwelcomeclark @Ia748734El @anilkseth I think you misread my point. To put it more synthetically: prescriptions aren’t predicates of observations. Inquiry can make the structure of knowledge systems more explicit in demarcations/definitions/criteria—not their promises, which remain to be seen.

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@DrTomFroese @tomwelcomeclark @Ia748734El @anilkseth We have to be careful with prescriptive modes, principles are there for what is already established not for what we don’t know…