Hacker NewsThe Rational Conclusion of Doomerism Is Violence
https://www.campbellramble.ai/p/the-rational-conclusion
#HackerNews #Doomerism #Violence #Rationality #Debate #Society
Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱A message of "we will manage the decline slightly better than the other guys" simply does not inspire the kind of massive, grassroots mobilization required to overcome deeply entrenched, aggressive opposition from the billionaire interests in both parties.
Wrote @chadloder on 2026-04-10 at Bluesky
#liberals #voteBlue #DemocraticParty #values #morals #debate #rationality #faith #beliefs
WIST QuotationsDetection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)
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Doyle, Arthur Conan - Story (1890-02), "The Sign of the Four," ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK) | WIST Quotations
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid. Critiquing…
PhilosophicsI've been putting off posting about my 5,000+ essay downloads in deference to more 'important' pieces, but since my weekend was occupied plotting a new story idea, I have space for a short celebratory piece. Hooray for me. 🥳
https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/06/celebration/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
The two favourites were 'Objectivity Is an Illusion' and 'Rational Ghosts: Why Enlightenment Democracy Was Built to Fail'. Follow the link.
#philosophy #essays #writing #reading #democracy #fiction #nonfiction #objectivity #rationality #celebrate
THE TICK: And isn’t sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean, all of you get is one trick, rational thinking. But when you’re good and crazy, oohoo-hoo-hoo-hoo, the sky’s the limit!
Ben Edlund (b. 1968) American cartoonist, writer, producer
The Tick (cartoon), 02×09 “Ants in the Pants!” (1995-11-18) [w. Ralph Soll]
More about this quote: wist.info/edlund-ben/221/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benedlund #thetick #mindset #potential #rationality #sanity #thought
Edlund, Ben - The Tick (cartoon), 02x09 "Ants in the Pants!" (1995-11-18) [w. Ralph Soll] | WIST Quotations
THE TICK: And isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean, all of you get is one trick, rational thinking. But when you're good and crazy, oohoo-hoo-hoo-hoo, the sky's the limit!
damian entwistleToday's poem:
The Last Rational Man
- by Margaret Atwood
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/812063220952121344/the-last-rational-man?source=share
#caligula #emperor #senator #rationality #dignity #integrity #MargaretAtwood
Michael Fenichel#TrumpVirus #war (within & projected)
vs. #Peace #democracy #civilization #rationality #collaboration #diplomacy #WeThePeople #truth #brotherhood
A madman enabled by equally #evil #GQP Congress & #disinformation #media who seem not to see or care.
He is not America, not even at its worst.
He is not a normal human, much less someone fit to serve the people, including those in his #cult, who suffer too. :-(
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. What it should produce is a belief that knowledge is attainable in a measure, though with difficulty; that much of what passes for knowledge at any given time is likely to be more or less mistaken, but that the mistakes can be rectified by care and industry. In acting upon our beliefs, we should be very cautious where a small error would mean disaster; nevertheless it is upon our beliefs that we must act. This state of mind is rather difficult: it requires a high degree of intellectual culture without emotional atrophy. But though difficult it is not impossible; it is in fact the scientific temper. Knowledge, like other good things, is difficult, but not impossible; the dogmatist forgets the difficulty, the skeptic denies the possibility. Both are mistaken, and their errors, when wide-spread, produce social disaster.Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #action #caution #dogma #dogmatism #education #knowledge #rationality #science #selfawareness #skeptic #skepticism #truthseeking #pedagogy
Russell, Bertrand - Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 "The Aims of Education" (1926) | WIST Quotations
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. What it should produce is a belief that knowledge is attainable in a measure, though with difficulty; that much of what passes for knowledge at any given time is likely to be more or less mistaken, but…
N-gated Hacker News📉🤖 Oh, look! Another treatise on why #academia swapped out rational math for the lazy allure of "good enough" #AI. Apparently, #ImageNet and the irresistible siren call of not specifying goals have won over academia's finest. Way to go, Guy Freeman, for enlightening us on how to achieve #mediocrity in the most complex way possible. 🎓💡
https://gfrm.in/posts/why-decision-theory-lost/index.html #rationality #innovation #HackerNews #ngated
https://gfrm.in/posts/why-decision-theory-lost/index.html #rationality #innovation #HackerNews #ngated
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of PnictogenPlainly their utilitarian approach to #rationality informs how they view #intelligence and their fixation on "generative AI" as the summa qua non of computing technology: it would be irrational by their lights to reject the use of a computing device that's:
(a) such a conceptually simple and brute-force method for approximating human behavior and creativity, requiring very little from the #tech entrepreneurs besides extravagant hoarding of computer hardware and #data
(b) so readily tailored to produce output within a desired specification, merely by tuning the training data fed into the #LLM or other "generative AI" thingummy
(c) so easily slotted into #business models precisely because the chief virtues of #LLMs and similar devices is their predictability of output and their brute-force ability to generate massive quantities of output.
To them it's a ridiculously obvious proposition: rent a building, pack it with GPUs, steal a mass of training data from somewhere and hey presto it's like printing #money. Who would be stupid and "dumb" enough NOT to do these things?!