Ty @aMiddleTurtle

You can't see under the bedrock. Look instead to the horizon. Joined September 2025

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

28 minutes ago

You have to be a low-trust authoritarian at the borders if you want high-trust liberalism inside them.

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A whole lot of BS political views basically amount to assuming that life in our hard won civilisations is just the way things are, and that you can simply remove the foundations. Only a society protected by vaccines produces anti-vaxxers. Only a society with a strong military…

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

12 hours ago

Horseshoe theory is real, and one way it manifests is interesting: Both leftists and chuds don't understand the concept of wealth creation. They think it's a fixed pie. If I get a slice, then you don't. For leftists, this means they can only understand "the rich" as thieves. How…

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

13 hours ago

In addition to "balance of probabilities" and "beyond reasonable doubt", maybe we need a new standard of proof, something like "beyond a shadow of a doubt." Then we could execute guys like this immediately without wasting money on decades-long appeals or feeding and housing him.

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

a day ago

There's a very important distinction to be made here. I'm a fan of free trade. If my country is better at producing X and your country is better at producing Y, and we both want X and Y, we should specialize in what we're good at and sell to each other. That's called comparative…

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

a day ago

There are two possibilities: Either we have libertarian free will (however constrained), or we don't. If we don't, then determinism reigns, and there's nothing left to say. Meaning evaporates. Compatibilism is cope. We're all going to do whatever we're going to do.

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gdsimms @gdsimms

3 days ago

@ArtemisConsort "how can we acknowledge people are different without wanting to kill them?" Telling on themselves

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

3 days ago

I will die on each of these hills: - An intricate seal on a plain background almost always makes for an ugly flag - Preserving ugliness to own the redditards is itself retarded - New things are not always bad - You can (and should) keep the old seals, but as seals, not flags

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

4 days ago

I can't prove that epiphenominalism is false, but the idea that the most important thing in the universe is a mere byproduct of deterministic processes, a useless appendage fooling us into thinking we have agency, strikes me as not only absurd but evil.

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

5 days ago

Whenever I read "The purpose of a system is what it does" the implication seems to be "My political enemies' actions are always due to malice and never stupidity" which is likely incorrect. Am I missing something? What insight is that statement meant to convey?

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

5 days ago

When writing, I've been using ChatGPT as a crutch. "Rephrase this", "find a better word", etc. They're little things but they add up to a bad habit. I've trained myself into a sort of sloppiness. One reason for this Twitter account is to help myself fix the damage.

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

5 days ago

I understand, and largely agree with, the purely instrumental arguments against capital punishment. E.g., it's probably bad to execute people because in the long run, you'll likely end up executing innocents. Better to restrict the role of the state to what's strictly necessary…

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

6 days ago

It's deeply human to want to go beyond mere deterrence or containment, and see bad guys get what they actually deserve. Our high-minded overlords dismiss this instinct as the barbaric thrashing of peasants--and fair enough, I guess. The Western justice system, for all its…

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Ty @aMiddleTurtle

6 days ago

@vvvincent_c "Do LLMs display true language understanding?" Strange question. I can think of two meanings for "understanding": 1) the functional one, i.e., an agent understands X if, given X, it can produce useful output; and 2) the experiential one, i.e., an agent understands X if it has…