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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Hard to see how you can read what GP said as anything other than "basically free", and failing to quantify, like you are doing here, and just categorically calling all electricity use bad is not coherent or helpful either.
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
I mean, good, maybe if this is intended to preserve the value of human-produced art and/or to limit the scope of official charts. But I'm not sure how you actually prove this or thus justify any particular instance of enforcemen
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
It could not be Frankfurtian if we say that he was just speaking colloquially and obviously only really meant something like "quite close", and indeed making up random percentages to stand for such vague feelings is really quite a
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
It is almost certainly a completely made up number though. It's not quite on the same level of emptiness as "rate your emotion on a scale of 1-10", but it might as well be. I.e. are we 80% of the way by the calendar, then if
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
LLM weights are frozen once the model is trained and a specific version is released, or this is true at least currently for almost all major models. You can ask interesting consciousness questions about LLMs, but you most definitely need to
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
You are still stuck in thinking consciousness is one unified thing, but it is about one of the clearest examples of a family-resemblance category as you can think of. Dynamicness / change is one aspect that is definitely part of what w
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
> Are you saying I need to have certain beliefs (discredited by someone) for something objective to be true or false? I am saying that, if you reject radical social constructionism (or solipsisms of various flavours, i.e. we are all just
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Even just reading the Wikipedia article on consciousness would have been a good start here, but it is hard to believe the author has ever even done that...
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Whether AI is conscious or not is independent of the social acceptance of the idea, unless you believe in thoroughly discredited and quite radical forms of social constructionism. In fact, if you stop talking about consciousness, and go thr
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Few philosophical definitions actually involve qualia or handwaving, because serious philosophy is quite careful about noting vagueness (handwaving) and circular defintions (qualia). Also, saying "I define consciousness as X" and
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
You can conclude the author is a completely unserious thinker because he doesn't even take a second to talk about the definitions, or even show he has ever read any actual proper philosophical writing on consciousness at all. Like, lit
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Oh look, another completely retarded article that doesn't even bother to note or deal with the definition problem. If you don't define what you mean by the term, your argument isn't even wrong, it is just a waste of everyone&
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
I don't think these kinds of "interventions" can do much, because seeing a bunch of people in a room doesn't somehow make you forget what you see in the media, or suddenly lose knowledge of what makes you desirable for d
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by D-Machine 1mo ago
Because it doesn't work, or works only trivially. Yes, seeing other bodies can make you feel better about yours, but it can make you feel worse too. Depends on the distribution of bodies, which ones you focus on, and your attitudes t
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by D-Machine 2mo ago
I'm in downtown Toronto, and there are plenty of (very quiet) electric cars, all sorts of quiet e-bikes and other electric personal transportation devices (scooters, e-unicycles) and other things (roller blades, bikes, skateboards) whe
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by D-Machine 2mo ago
The aversiveness of boredom is not conditioning, but part of its essence and generally is proposed to be its (presumably evolved) function. Boredom is arguably the negative emotion or cognitive mode that drives (or opens up the space for) c
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by D-Machine 2mo ago
You should try foam earplugs, if they are comfortable for you. Far more effective and discreet, you have a range of dB ratings to choose from for degree of muting, they are cheaper and stay in place better, and are more portable.
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by D-Machine 2mo ago
Same with walking in the city IMO.
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by D-Machine 2mo ago
I see a lot of people walking around in the city with headphones, and I always find it concerning. These people have huge issues with situational awareness: they can't hear faster walkers approaching from behind, often don't notic
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by D-Machine 2mo ago
There is still IMO a way that "creative mode" can be wasted time, and that is when it is being used as a distraction from proper reflection / introspection. The pursuit of creativity / learning can be its own unhealthy o
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by D-Machine 2mo ago
There is indeed quite a rich literature on the importance of boredom too. Basic links can be found on Wikipedia, Buddhism generally confronts it as well, and even research in psychology generally sees it as an important cognitive or emotion
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by D-Machine 2mo ago
A bit surprised at the focus on auditory stimuli here. There is a deeper point about our need for distraction in contemporary society which I think is with thinking about a bit. You can scroll Twitter / read Hacker News or other sour
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by D-Machine 2mo ago
It is a problem of degree, not of kind, in contemporary society. The degree today to which people require / can seek out distractions today is not likely "normal" compared to what we know of past human history, although the d
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by D-Machine 4mo ago
Yes, although the evidence for those having meaningful or large health effects is far weaker, more suggestive / possible rather than clearly established. For sure though, "berries are healthy" is a far more general truth than
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by D-Machine 4mo ago
I'm assuming a Western context, and that fruit and vegetable have their common language and culinary meanings, so that e.g. tomato and cucumber are vegetables, and that "fruits" generally means what is available to and consum
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by D-Machine 4mo ago
GP posting "Everyone I personally know working in software stopped writing code" on HN is such an obvious tell of blinkered delusion. Literally all HN talks about is AI these days, and it is very, very clear that plenty of peopl
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by D-Machine 4mo ago
Let me put it this way: I don't think it is an uncommon belief that "adding fruit" to an existing diet will have benefits. But, in fact, if you are meeting your caloric and nutrient needs already, it is unlikely it adds anyth
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by D-Machine 4mo ago
Interesting. Pink Lady is a favorite for me, and Sweetango is great too, but I'd consider Cosmic Crisp very, very close to Pink Lady in overall balance (I do agree Pink Lady is better though). I'm in Canada and Cosmic Crisp is spe
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by D-Machine 4mo ago
Saying fruit isn't "healthy" doesn't mean it is unhealthy, there are plenty of neutral things here. But if you are treating fruits and veggies as the same (e.g. X servings of fruits and veggies), generally, anyone making
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by D-Machine 4mo ago
It is reasonable to presume that balance has been undermined. In general "eat your fruit and veggies" should probably be modified to "eat your veggies", which generally have fiber and better nutrient density, without the

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