Nathan Eric Dickman

Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group

ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭

One third of the country supported the January 6 2021 attempted take over the government & are the same ones who voted him back in. They are traitors in my book.

Make no mistake here: the most distinctive characteristic of modern souls and modern books is not lying, but ingrained innocence in moral deception. ~Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals (2008), 115

Veterans Group Urges States To Pass Protective Policies In Response To Trump Trans Bans Trans veterans are being let go without a safety net. Here’s what your state can do about it.

1. Transgender soldiers and veterans have faced horrific mistreatment by the Trump administration.

Now, a coalition of LGBTQ+ military organizations are urging states to pass legislation to help those forced out of service or off healthcare.

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Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

by which to distinguish “truth” from “bullshit.”

essentially projecting cloud bunnies on bunnies,” then there is at least one thing that is not “projecting cloud bunnies..” and that is whatever “projection” (mechanics of it) is in contrast to what it seems to be.

Thanks for proving my point. We (non-predictive texters) have at least one principle

I am not sure where this is coming from. I did not used the phrase “pulling meaning from” anything since I use “meaning” in its semantic specificity with subjects and predicates. Those two can be synthesized anywhere, but “pulled”? Nonsensical. If it is true that “your existence is…

If I see someone writhing in pain with evident cause, I do not think: all the same, his feelings are hidden from me. ~Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Psychology--A Fragment, 324

Well I’m just so glad that even with a government shutdown that they tried to use to take food from hungry people, government resources can still be allocated for Trump’s staff to have an emergency huddle in the situation room about how to handle his heinous crimes against minors coming out.

This.
I’m always kind of surprised when people say it writes well

Aurora Borealis!

my first order assumption is that any antisemitism I see from anonymous pro-Palestine accounts is Hasbara intended to make Palestinians and anti-Zionists look bad

not always true, certainly, but stay woke y’all!

US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’ Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.

José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:

“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

Those who see essence and essential difference
And entities and nonentities,
They do not see
The truth taught by the Buddha.
~Nagarjuna, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, XV.6

But computer science is cratering. Four-year undergraduate enrollment in computer and information sciences plunged by 7.7 percent this fall — and it decreased almost twice as fast at the graduate level. The Clearinghouse data doesn’t say why, but it’s hard to ignore recent gluts of tech-company layoffs and questions about artificial intelligence taking coders’ jobs in a discipline that’s proven subject to ebbs and flows.

From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.

Can you tell the difference between a bunny being *deliberate* and a suggestive cloud pattern? Between a compliment and an ego-stroke? Between predictive guessing text and complete thoughts that answer actually asked questions?

When you read a sentence produced by a GPT chatterbot, and you believe you understand what that sentence *means,* that is the same thing as imagining a bunny in a cloud. Or it’s like believing a compliment from a pathological people-pleaser.

~Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals (2008), II.16 (65)

humanity's suffering from humanity, from oneself: this is a result of a violent separation from one's animal past..., a declaration of war against the old instincts, which previously constituted the basis of one's strength, pleasure, and fearfulness.

--this fool, this yearning and desperate prisoner became the inventor of "bad conscience." But with this one was introduced the greatest and most sinister sickness which still afflicts humanity even today:

this animal which is to be "tamed," which rubs oneself raw on the bars of one's cage, this deprived human consumed with homesickness for the desert, who has no choice but to transform oneself into an adventure, a place of torture, an uncertain and dangerous wilderness

The person who is forced into an oppressively narrow and regular morality, who for want of external adversaries and resistance impatiently tears, persecutes, gnaws, disturbs, mistreats oneself,

New Report Examines Writers’ Attitudes toward AI A study commissioned by the Gotham Ghostwriters and Bernoff.com found that while 61% of professional writers are embracing AI tools, authors, specifically fiction authors, are much more wary.

Fellow writers: this is depressing #BookSky

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Bleakly hilarious state of affairs that "the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%)."

All they do is refer back to the missing parts of the context. Consequently, constancy of meaning is never anything but the constancy of contexts. ~Ricoeur, Rule of Metaphor, 89

The belief that words possess a meaning that would be proper to them is a leftover from sorcery, the residue of ‘the magical theory of names.’ Words are not at all the names of ideas present to the mind; they are not constituted by any fixed association with data, whatever that data might be.

When I say some folks (mainly MAGAs, the TACO administration, the genocidal State of Israel, transphobes, etc.) talk exactly like flat earthers, this is an inductive argument by analogy. And the argument is rooted in a theory of semantics (how words mean things):

talking exactly like flat earthers literally believe just saying something (“sunset”) makes it so (Earth spins!).