robert darwen

clock design, film production, math, tango - father of 3 boys, peace be upon us!
favourite book: The History of the Biscuit.

[robert darwen @mathdancer1]

@gmiller @christiandean_ You have revealed that you have not encountered the epistemology of David Deutsch. We are all running the same creative software in our brains (a little variation in memory and processing speed notwithstanding) and differ only in our interests and readiness to engage with them.

[robert darwen @mathdancer1]

@aljhlester In a previous exchange we had the only thing you could list as being worth of holding dear in our nation's history was 'resistance'. Unless you are prepared to vouchsafe other items on the list then this appeal to duty feels rather disingenuous, even cycnical.

[Sam Corbishley @corbishleys]

After weeks' spent focusing on judges getting it wrong in their sentencing remarks, here is Mr Justice Bright with a moving tribute to a victim.

In fact, he refuses to use that word, or complainant or survivor, saying they're 'demeaning'.

He instead refers to her as the 'hero'.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

@JuliaHB1 @Keir_Starmer That generic wording suggests to me that he does not have in mind a picture of what happened on those beaches, but only of what one should say on such occasions. @grok you would have composed a better statement wouldn't you?

[Adam Ozimek @ModeledBehavior]

Ghandi vs Ford on mass production from the NYT in 1931. Who was proven right? https://t.co/f4p9eduhQK

[robert darwen @mathdancer1]

@NeilHudsonexp Don't people usually mean by good reasons rationally? Am I being obtuse?!

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.

This one quote sounded familiar.

[Karl Popper Quotes @QuotePopper]

“If God had wanted to put everything into the world from the beginning, He would have created a universe without change, without organisms and evolution, and without man and man’s experience of change. But He seems to have thought that a live universe with events unexpected even by Himself would be more interesting than a dead one.”

—Karl Popper, Unended Quest.

[Karl Popper Quotes @QuotePopper]

"It seems to me that what is essential to “creative” or “inventive” thinking is a combination of intense interest in some problem (and thus a readiness to try again and again) with highly critical thinking; with a readiness to attack even those presuppositions which for less critical thought determine the limits of the range from which trials (conjectures) are selected; with an imaginative freedom that allows us to see so far unsuspected sources of error: possible prejudices in need of critical examination."

—Karl Popper, Unended Quest.

[robert darwen @mathdancer1]

@aljhlester People can become less tolerant of cultural changes without invoking any economic issues and, frankly, they can come to views about all sorts of things without propaganda causing it. You have a low view of the agency of voters you disagree with it seems.

[robert darwen @mathdancer1]

@atomicjoy @TheSimonEvansX I think this is a wrong analysis.

[robert darwen @mathdancer1]

@aljhlester Not so much and it's still an enormous minority. People are just fed up with too fast and in some cases antithetical cultural changes they werent asked about. And if they're struggling financially to boot then they're less forgiving..

[robert darwen @mathdancer1]

@paulmasonnews @elonmusk I don't think this is a correct application of the word seething.

[Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 @portraitinflesh]

A seriously high quality Jewish joke I just came across.

[Joe Paul Kroll @JoePKroll]

The beginning of AJP Taylor’s ‘English History 1914–1945’ famously ‘goes hard’, as the internet puts it, but part of its brilliance is surely that it was written (or rather edited) to fit a single page.

[Prof. Brian Keating @Briankeating]

Darwin's teacher: "a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect."

Grades can’t capture genius.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

"It's very important not to politicise a personal tragedy."

[robert darwen @mathdancer1]

@TheSimonEvansX Yes, it is returning us to the pre-covenented society that Burke delineated and that so distinguishes us at our best from it.

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

Absolutely bloody told you so