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François Benoux
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Il n'y a pas de liberté et d'égalité sans fraternité | faire prévaloir la vérité
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Apr 2, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
People create bubbles they live in. In my bubble there are 5+ smart cookies of the female orientation with strong faculties of reason (top in their domain). They can save my day with niche skills.

Yet, the average female strategic vision is devastating. Not something I expected. From my observations:

Women who are honest & really clever, the smartest thing they do is to ask a man on issues of deep strategy (e.g. how to handle a new type of of crisis).

It's a persistent sign of low intelligence / honesty to pretend they know.

And I'm dead serious.
Jul 31, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Are Koine words understood by modern Greeks?

Let's study the words in question II, 1890 Harvard entrance exam.

12 Words

- πολις
- Σκυθης
- οικία
- οστεον
- συκον
- νεως
- θως
- τριηρης
- αξιος
- γλυκυς
- βουλευω
- παυω

https://t.co/sOkefjAGSN https://t.co/PrHQ9sj0SK

Image 2/ Now let's ask GPT4 to make a calculated guess.

The response: it's Attic dialect (more ancient than Koine) and predicts "NO it would not be understood" in 3 words (out of 12): Σκυθης, Θως, Τριηρης

As we will see GPT made an error. It is only 1 the "unknown" word here. Image
Apr 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Thesis-Antithesis

Big Think, direct quote: "Greeks made major advances, even if they were all ultimately incorrect" (ALL incorrect)

Salon: "Much of western European philosophy, from ancient Greece to the present, has led directly to unspeakable evil". Not incorrect, evil. ImageImage Source 1 - Greeks "all ultimately incorrect"

The article includes Democritus' atomic theory and Platonic theory of forms.

bigthink.com/thinking/7-gre… Image
Apr 12, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
GPT & the "objective" system of thinking

1/ Excellent observation by @NoFriendlyFireX, LLM mimics how we, as humans, can overcome our biases with two separate systems. This resembles the System I / II paradigm (Thinking, Fast & Slow) but also shows how Kahneman misses the point. 2/ In "Thinking, Fast and Slow" Daniel Kahneman proposes two separate systems of thinking

GPT help us review the two

- System I thinking is fast, intuitive, automatic
- System II slow, analytical, deliberate Image
Jan 8, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Modern dark ages

People have no clue that

1. the heritage of the longest Western Empire (~1000s years) still dominates our laws, values, news & conflicts

2. Darwinism, Psychology... built by adding piles of BS over BS

3. The "scientific method" is a post-modern cartoon

Etc Dark Ages is when civilisation loses track of ideas. Our generation is so dull, doesn't even care where ideas come from. Pop ideas are just "true"! Let's take the scientific method.

Was this cartoonish method proposed by Aristotle? No.
Newton? Nope.
Maybe Bacon?! Of course not.
Dec 16, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Notice how the perception of "EU corruption" never asks the forbidden question "is the EU corrupted?". My guess is that same countries would rate on top, considering European UNION as corrupted.

As if the corruption perception rates taboo cultures (collectively hiding things). Let's use as benchmark the EU data for Ukraine.

- Less corruption perception (Denmark, Sweden...), more public support for corrupted Ukraine.
- More corruption perception (Italy, Greece, Hungary...), less support.

As if corruption perception is exactly that, a perception.
Nov 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Excellent observation. It fits the development of Greek civilisation, which is reversed from what many would expect.

X FALSE : Theology → Metaphysics → Science

✓ HISTORICALLY TRUE: Science & Math → Platonic philosophy (+Aristotelian Metaphysics) → advanced Theology First, Ionian School
- Thales coins "Physics"
- Anaximander proposes evolutionary theory
- Anatomy, medicine etc.

Then, Socrates debunks materialism as naive. e.g. he's not content w human anatomy as "true cause" of movement. We're in a cave.

Then Metaphysics & Christianity
Nov 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Our generation doesn't have to discover public law... for Twitter.

1) ban the "bad" people (police state): Barbarian school of public law

or

2) ban blasphemy* of sacred (God, sexual degeneracy etc): Athenian school of public law

*progressivism ousted as spoiled-child audacity The Founding Fathers who drafted the US Constitution understood the MINIMUM limits of free speech to secure MAXIMUM liberty, WITHOUT a police state.

But... western politicians discovered that blasphemy laws violated the Constitution. When? After WWII.
harvardlawreview.org/2021/12/blasph…
Mar 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
According to media, Donetsk & Lugansk can't be subjects of international law, aren't "real states" & Russia is delusional

Q: How Palestine Liberation Organization can sign treaties?

Ans: art 96 §3 of Protocol I Geneva Convention recognises any "authority representing a people" Of course, one could claim that Turkey occupies Cyprus in similar grounds. But...

1) Russia waited for local referendums, actual suppression, alerted organs of international community for ~ a decade
2) In criminal law, past is not erased. Turkey & Germany have a genocidal past.
Jan 9, 2022 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
Thread

"there is no evidence"

1/ The greatest logicians & scientists of humankind rarely, if ever, used the phrase "there is no evidence" to prove any point.

Instead, this became the strongest modern "scientific" argument by atheists, demagogues & charlatans. Why? Image 2/ There are major defects in that phrase

a) defect of pure logic "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

b) Intellectual weakness & bad faith. Demagogues escape the labor of a serious debate (to show opposing evidence are weak or bad) by "there is no evidence".
Jan 5, 2022 • 36 tweets • 13 min read
What is gene therapy?

TECHNICAL THREAD

1/ After my previous thread I continue getting criticism, under the assumption that "gene therapy" is defined with three words "modify the DNA".

I'm left with two options. Either to burn my books in genetics, or to debunk that myth. 2/ For a healthy debate we need to make an agreement, a social contract: we'll try to use domain-specific terminology.

- not Kindergarten dumbed down vocabulary (like Fauci)
- not made up terms (like @nntaleb or Fact Checkers)
- not made up data (from Mathematica)

OK?
Jan 4, 2022 • 28 tweets • 9 min read
1/ Are mRNA vaccines "just vaccines" or tools for gene therapy?

Thread 2/ According to Anthony Fauci, the mRNA vaccine "has nothing at all to do with modifying your DNA, it's an mRNA that codes for a protein".

He didn't say there is a LOW risk.
He didn't say there is INSIGNIFICANT risk.
He said "NOTHING at all to do".

Jan 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Dynamic hedging 101

1. Insult, daily, little accounts
2. Insult some w/ larger following ONLY if they're benign (e.g. insult @PTetlock as "rat")
3. Insult large+effective accounts ONLY AFTER they're gone ex: do NOT pick on Trump, Malone etc. until they're out, they may crush you Image Example: @nntaleb was silent on Malone. He wrote 4 comments insulting him *hours* after he was cancelled (Dec 29, 2021). He suddenly remembered an old embarrassing video of Marjorie Greene after she was cancelled. Would he picked on her, personally, if she was active?
Dec 27, 2021 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Scientific publications & Spy networks

Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine Maxwell.

He refused accusations for being an Israeli spy. However, according to Washington Post his funeral was set in Israel with honours of a national hero (attending ministers & the Prime Minister). Image Paul Rosbaud

Paul Rosbaud worked as a spy for MI6, Great Britain. A unique kind of spy, working at Springer to infiltrate Nazi scientific networks. Image
Dec 7, 2021 • 26 tweets • 8 min read
Principles of law

There are two major pillars where the law stands on:

1) a network of legal principles that EXPLICITLY give logical coherence

2) a worldview by the authors (philosophy, doctrines, symbols etc) that IMPLICITLY overshadows the law and inspires new principles In the west we have two major legal traditions (French civil code, English common law) and both are founded on the shoulders of philanthrope Christian doctrines.

Let's skip the history of Providence in FR Civil Rights or Christianity in EN Common law, and focus on *today*.
Dec 5, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Fear monitor, the thread.

1/ Follow this for updates on what you should be afraid, terrified & urgently react to. 2/ Switzerland, the cradle of panicked democracy.

"The panic Omicron sparked was felt in Geneva, where health officials from around the world met this week and decided to start negotiating an agreement to prevent, prepare for and respond to pandemics."

politico.com/newsletters/gl…
Aug 22, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Dialectics, simplified thread

In the past, after some contemplation, I took the challenge to define two elusive concepts.

- what is intelligence
- what is idiocy

They're elusive because they're difficult to define, catch, or achieve. 2/ This was my take on intelligence (thread)

Aug 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Every detail in covid smells like an elaborate scam.

In a real pandemic, doctors are hired. In fact, we have modern hospital staff due to previous plagues.

In covid, hospitals close down, total number of beds go down, massive number of healthcare staff either vaxxed or...fired. France, during covid pandemic:

"We always ask hospitals to reorganize themselves to save money and therefore to close beds. These bed closures are often justified because there are no doctors capable of taking care of patients."
Aug 20, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
1/ This is - literally - the message of the intro of the Federalist Papers.

Hamilton warns that
- demagogues & tyrants start their career as zealots for the Rights of the people
- with a *forbidden appearance of zeal* for the power of government (kratos). 2/ Alexander Hamilton: "On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interest can never be separated; "
Mar 31, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Why Constantine waited until the end to get baptized?

Baptism was not simply an act to become Christian. According to NT & "The Symbol of Faith" (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed) baptism's purpose was clearly the remission of sins.

N-C Creed transfigurationgoc.org/our-faith/the-… 2/ The moral dilemma between religious duty (purity) & pragmatism (army massacres) is an old burning question for soldiers, mentioned in the Old Testament as well.

In fact, it takes a ton of hypocrisy & spiritual death for NOT having such a Christian dilemma.
Nov 14, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Amnesty International, THREAD

@amnesty has a page dedicated to #Armenia. Articles appear to adopt Azeri & Turkish propaganda.

1st article: Armenians "cruel & reckless"
2nd article: "[Azeri] civilians killed" (cites Azerbaijani officials)
etc...

@amnesty chose this background When Greece-Turkey conflict was in the news, @amnesty took the side of.... Turkey.

People "trapped at Turkish border?!" What does this mean? Residents of Turkey desired to illegally enter Greece. The responsibility, according to Amnesty, belonged to Greece.

Remember this?