Bakkot

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by Bakkot 14y ago
Yup. But this certainly isn't unique to consciousness: In theory the axioms of Turing machines can prove that our best-candidate BusyBeaver(6) runs for around 10^36534 steps, but that doesn't provide an explanatory ontology. But you don't n
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by Bakkot 14y ago
You've conflated a couple of things here, and I think my position must have been a little poorly stated as well. Here's some points, in roughly ascending order of important. (Anyone reading this: skip to the bottom if you're not going to re
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by Bakkot 14y ago
You think? I'm pretty sure they already have sufficient motivation to shutdown Silk Road, which for laundering purposes is essentially a bank. By what mechanism do you propose they raid Silk Road's records, assuming such even exist?
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by Bakkot 14y ago
I'm sorry, you believe the physics of this universe could be simulated but still accept that the p-zombie argument is valid? So in p-zombie land, there's an Xcelerate making claims about being conscious for exactly the same reasons you are
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Wouldn't 'laundering' look exactly like 'sending the BTC to any of the dozens of services which store BTC for you in a centralized account, (SR, instawallet, etc) and then withdrawing that same amount? This produces bitcoins not visibly lin
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Zach Weiner might not be 'spectacularly' successful, but he's not exactly doing poorly for himself. Most recently: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/999790007/trial-of-the-c... In any case, I think you missed the thrust of the post, ie,
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Re "download a handgun", that debate is already happening: http://boingboing.net/2011/09/20/3d-printed-ar-15-parts-chal...
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Not sure if you meant to imply the brain is an inherently quantum system or not, but if so: > Theoretically then systems of the brain/mind should be able to be duplicated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem It's actually
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by Bakkot 14y ago
Great catch as always. I wish you'd included a tag so we could see how your post is spreading.
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by Bakkot 14y ago
> Any email provider also has your social graph. They really don't. Not the way Facebook does; not for the post-Millennials. People email bosses and professors and acquaintances; they use Facebook for friends.
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by Bakkot 15y ago
CSRF couldn't stop this particular attack, since it's not actually cross-site. You need to guard against both.
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by Bakkot 15y ago
True, outlive-the-heat-death-of-the-universe immortality would be a curse. For people who are happy, living indefinitely would not.