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ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
Public records and bios list her as born Ilham/Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, father Nur Omar Mohamed. High school yearbook and consistent US use match Ilhan Omar. She has said her father named her Ilham (she prefers Ilhan).
The court filing and sources in the probe call her Ilhan Nur Said Elmi a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, matching her 2009-17 husband's name. Somali naming is patronymic (no fixed family surname; women keep their names). No birth certificate exists. The probe is ongoing with no charges. Her public name history supports the statement; the alternative is under investigation.
ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
If we want to avoid sea level rise caused by global warming, we need some way of using up water that doesn't just return it to the water cycle. The only known way of destroying water permanently is datacenters
ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
scott alexander once said the benefit of a philosphy education is as a defense against bad philosophy. i feel that way about a lot of AI philosophy. I'm sure people without our level of AI/math/philosophy education are becoming far more accepting of this sort of thing.
ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
What Jordan Peterson is trying to say (but keeps muddling)
Peterson is gesturing toward a true insight - that
science presupposes realities it cannot justify by its own methods.
Those include:
intelligibility of the world
reliability of reason
normativity of truth
meaningfulness of ‘better explanations’
goodness of knowing rather than not knowing
These are ontological and moral preconditions, not scientific conclusions.
Where Peterson goes awry is that he slides immediately from ontology into symbolic theology and Jungian myth, collapsing:
God into archetype
Good into evolved narrative
Truth into adaptive meaning
That move weakens his case, because it makes the foundations of science look psychological or symbolic, rather than metaphysically real. So when he says “the gap between believing in God and believing in Good is very narrow”, he is aiming at something but imprecise. The real gap is not narrow or wide - it’s categorical:
Good is ontological (a feature of reality)
God is metaphysical (the ground of that reality)
Gad Saad is saying something different. Saad’s response is textbook scientistic when he says:
“the epistemology of science is fully and unequivocally decoupled from religion”
he is swapping epistemology for ontology.
Science may be methodologically decoupled from religion, but it is not ontologically self-grounding. Worse, Saad explains religion as an ‘evolved instinct’ which immediately undercuts his own trust in reason. If religiosity is adaptive illusion then so is truth-seeking, then so is ‘rationality’ and so is ‘science’.
Evolutionary accounts explain how beliefs arise, not whether they are true. Using evolution to justify epistemic trust is self-undermining. Saad’s position only ‘works’ by rhetorically borrowing realism while functionally denying it. The core problem with both sides is that they are arguing God v atheism, when the real divide is ontological realism v ontological nihilism. Science does not require revealed religion, scripture or ecclesial authority - but it does require real being, intelligibility, normativity, truth and real good. If those are denied, science collapses into instrumentalism, power optimization, narrative management and technocratic control. At that point, ‘science’ becomes engineering in service of will, not knowledge of reality. 2020 onwards (and long before that) has been a masterclass in the denial of reality in the ‘name of science’.
I love my friend @jordanbpeterson but I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with this position. Religion is profoundly important to most people, and there are clear evolutionary reasons for why we had evolved the instinct for religiosity. That said, the epistemology of science is fully and unequivocally decoupled from religion. Perhaps Jordan and I will address this issue in our next conversation. Wishing you a full and speedy recovery, habibi.
ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
Has anyone heard of this girl named Amelia?... Seems kinda based actually...
#GrokImagine #Amelia #ameliapathways
ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
a man sees someone about to jump off a bridge.
“don’t do it,” he says.
“why not?”
“there’s so much to live for. tell me—are you into ai alignment?”
“yeah.”
“me too. consequentialist or deontological?”
“consequentialist.”
“holy shit, same. utilitarian or longtermist?”
“longtermist.”
“brother. classical or astronomical?”
“astronomical.”
“based. tpot or anti-tpot?”
“tpots.”
“LET’S GO. early-tpot or post-tpot?”
“early-tpot.”
“ok, serious now. pre-2019 yudkowsky tone or post-2019 twitter yud?”
“pre-2019.”
“correct, correct. did tpot fail bc inner alignment was underspecified, or bc everyone started vibe-laundering basic ml safety into cosmology?”
“inner alignment.”
“obviously. do you think mesa-optimizers were overemphasized relative to gradient hacking?”
“yes.”
“jesus christ it’s me in a mirror. ok last one.”
“2018–2026 schism question:
was tpot fundamentally derailed by
(a) the miri diaspora + vibes collapse into twitter,
(b) eliezer’s rhetorical escalation after doom timelines compressed, or
(c) everyone pretending ‘agency’ meant the same thing while quietly talking past each other?”
“b.”
the man pauses. looks at him carefully.
“die heretic,” he says, and pushes him off the bridge.
ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
enshittification is just the back half of The Sort. as we become more efficient at capital allocation and more meritocratic, you know what happens? most things get a little worse. smart people take more rewarding jobs elsewhere and whole industries become idiotic.
ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
If we’re discussing Arsenal Birds, how about Lockheed’s conceptual CL-1201, a nuclear-powered giant with a 560-foot wingspan that could carry up to 22 Phantoms *externally*?
ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
1) Undoing migration is painful but necessary. Deaths are tragic, but fewer than something like ethnic violence of other multicultural dissolutions (Yugoslavia, Ottoman Empire, etc).
2) don’t really care, Biden could have released stuff too
3) when corruption its shitty
ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
The X-winged heavy Space Fighter of #StarCitizen
RSI Scorpius
ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
Canadian populist grifters once again proving they are incapable of leading any kind of movement or social change. Zoltan is an embarrassment to Canada.
ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
Sing to me, O Muse, of the man of so much rizz
And zero chill, fuckboying around the Aegean,
After he lit up the high rises of Troy.
Many opps he fought, fr, many rounds popped off,
Down bad on the ocean,
beefing to save himself and bring his true ones home.
ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
Excellent question.
Here's the thing. Unless you can articulate the "other opinion" in a way that the person who holds it would agree with, you don't know what it is.
If you don't know what it is, then you don't know that it's stupid.
You have a strawman. And strawmen are always stupid. That's why they have to go see the wizard.
This whole spergfight is a clash of priorities, not an actual difference of opinion.
I'll break it down when people have recovered from their emotions, and when I have recovered from the flu.
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ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
My politics just before Justin Trudeau became PM (as a teen) vs my politics just before Justin Trudeau stops being PM (as a young father)
ʙʀᴏɴᴢᴇ ᴀɢᴇ ʙɪᴛsʜɪғᴛᴇʀ retweeted
Today we are learning that there are repercussions to pissing on the floor.
Who am I kidding, he’s not learning a thing. But hey, I don’t have to hear my wife gripe about the lizard peeing on her stuff 🤷♂️
