Alan_Dillman

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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
I've been there too, and it was pretty spectacular. The thing is, it takes a certain reference point to appreciate. A more mature one. For kids, and the younger they are, much of their daily lives of filled with continual new and overw
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Yes, it does. Because you don't know if it will take a month, and if you have any confidence (maybe too much) in your abilities, you will likely assume you will sell it quickly. And a second one too. Its a poor sales person that thinks
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Exactly! You said it much more intelligently than I. Bodily go where no thinking machine has gone before. I remember thinking that entropy was bad when I first heard of the concept, but now I see life as tumbling down that slope, and making
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Infrastructure, scaffold, or interface DNA then, would be a better term.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Diogenes holds up a plucked chicken and proclaims "Behold, a man!" The hypesters are defining AGI (and even General Intelligence) like Plato defined man, "A featherless biped". Either they know this, and they are huckste
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Its an absolutely bonkers aspect of US society. Its not that one needs to be blind to "race", and who could be blind to differences in skin colour? Its that Americans seem to be taught that it is so very important, and that instea
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
They weren't. Its just an incredibly hard climb. That primitive technology guy on youtube spent several years trying to climb out of his personal stone age. Even with actual knowledge and a path forward, the most he got was a few iron
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Lots of the cereal crops do not require much processing. As kids out roaming, my brother and I (and sometimes cousins) would pull the heads off of barley and wheat and chew the grains. My dad did it as a kid too, and as surely as I have an
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
That would fly in the face of nature, where wild animals are almost universally more cognitively resourceful than domesticated versions. Its special pleading to say humans should be different.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
I've long wondered about the generational effects on human physiology and cognition from pregnant women drinking alcohol. Excessive consumption causes Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, but there is no sharp cut off.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
That ideation was the conceit of philosophy and academia. And possibly specific to Eurasians. Quoting your link: "who compiled and expanded the work of earlier *natural philosophers* and the various ancient explanations for the appeara
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
I wish math would land, so people would say "a quarter to a third the size", which is what I guess they really mean.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Right? There is hungry, and there is hungry . I forgot the difference since I was a growing kid. I wouldn't be surprised if true hunger is an important part of metabolic regulation. A baseline, perhaps.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
I do something similar. One fist sized portion of food is a meal, and I am full after a wait. I rarely have desert, even at special occasions, luckily, its not really a weakness for me anyway.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
It certainly would need to run for a bit to thaw out the window and warm the passenger compartment. One cannot just push start and drive off in climates with actual frost and snowfall.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Right. There is an insidious notion that 'knowing'is 'doing'. Slacktivism, as it was once called. Much as an idea has no value, while an implementation might, engagement does not equate with amelioration.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Thanks.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Is MHCD "game fun logic", or will I understand some meaningful concepts via play? I'm not looking to get into CPU design in the real world, but a teachable moment crossed with "how things work in abstract" is intere
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
To be fair, its also no moon.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Right? Consciousness involves agency, self reflection, motivations, a sense of urgency. And a good deal of "theory of mind" and self denial. I'll give it to cats and dogs, birds, the apes, and many other critters, but not AI.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
When I was younger, I worked for my cousin, a labour job, and he hired some of the local natives. One guy didn't show up after a few days, but his brother did. He was put to work. Then a few days later, a cousin. Now oddly, they each c
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
This. It has really split into two domains, but the terminology is often muddled. It is like the difference between a person who pours concrete foundations, and a person optimizing concrete formulas. Society needs both, but the skill sets a
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Now that is the end of an era. RIP.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
The De Smet, South Dakota example is a good one. For a more northerly North American example, High Level Alberta, Canada has a population of 3100 and a service population of 20k. First settlers in 1947, it was incorporated in 1965. There i
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
This. It is just plain nicer most of the time. It is usually sunny, and in Alberta we get frequent Chinook winds; there is no long deep freeze to endure.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
>I'm noting that hasn't been my experience. I think you are just overlooking something so common and in your face that it seems invisible. In terms of retail/services, it's a 'customers are idiots' story, an
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Is it really anything new, or just newly noticed by these select researchers? I used to meditate/imagine natural environments in the 1980s and while in them, I'd move my perception through, looking for entities to talk to. I didn&
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Or just between 1992 and 1963. Heck, I only know the 70s onward, and remember the mid 70s only in child's eye, me centric ways. I remember my aunts being upset about Elvis Presley dying, but I wasn't quite sure what the fuss was,
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
You succeeded, right up till the last 3 characters.
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by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
I mean, once upon a time, UI design and digital composing were "coded". Slowly things get hoisted out of deeply technical domains, or at least, such that someone talented at other things can apply their type of technical knowledge

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