IIAOPSW

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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
They could solve this by including an empty bucket to go with it.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Technically, its only electrocution if she dies. Otherwise its an electroshock. The consent of your friends guardian to either the former, the latter, or both is not within my ability to say.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
You could instead aspire to provide value for money.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I was going for a parody of "Battle hymn of the Republic" / "John Browns Body" / "Blood upon the Risers" / "Solidarity Forever".
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
how does lack of sleep lead to white tongue? why does it eventually cause a stroke?
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>What if aliens have no notion of discrete numbers, what if everything is probabilistic analog math? 0 and 1 are both valid probabilities. >What about an organism that can see/focus/sense multiple things simultaneously, and
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
If you're an oompa loompa living in Willie Wonka's world where there's no such thing as rigid construction and everything is candy, the ability to have any level of technological civilization (including stool building) is dub
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
As the old patriotic hymn goes "He is sounding forth the car horn that shall never ever cease. He is fastening the seat belt in his drivers side reclining seat. As he tried to make men Holy let us drive to make men free. His truth is r
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Its Parler, the wet market of ideas.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
It can beat the confusing system with machine learning.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Genius. There won't ever be a robot revolution when they can simply run for office instead. Another win for Democracy.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'd say the last one is the worst case. For we might disagree on facts, but if we both have shared values with respect to which methods and forms of evidence are valid ways of obtaining facts about our shared reality (and which ones ar
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
A Turing machine can simulate the operation of any other Turing machine, so maybe there's hope for a ball of X neurons.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
This has to be the most obtuse thing I've read today. First, you bait us in with the bold claim "tragedy of the commons is a fallacy", but then it turns out you're not actually going to show a flaw in the idea that the t
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Hmm. Assuming we could feed in the sort of indicators and summary statistics that already form the way nation-states see reality, we could attach a literal brain to the organs of the state!
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Oh captain my captain, lead me to this promised land!
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Pretty much. Gödel still technically applies in the sense that if I claim to have a reasoning system which is usually sound and complete, you can still use "this statement has no heuristic explanation" to force an instance of my s
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Al he's really describing is a formal system (S) exactly like an ordinary proof system (G), but the underlying semantics represent "convincing"/"unconvincing" rather than "true" / "false&quo
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I think there's a flaw in Scott's reasoning here because he is mixing and matching statements made in semantic systems of "convincing" and "plausible", but still using the semantics of true/false to do the
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Got to be honest, I heard something about how Mark Cuban was going to make prescription drugs cheaply available to YOU, but I thought it was a scam meme targeting boomers on facebook. It had all the hallmarks of that sort of thing, a produc
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I think there is a significant fraction of people for whom their system of reasoning about the world fundamentally follows the same design patterns as religion and the best we can hope for is that they "convert to the church of trustin
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Its not about belief in the ignorance of experts, but rather the principle that truth does not derive from authority. I don't believe experts are ignorant, I'll even go so far as to sometimes accept their claims as authoritative,
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
The phone number decision is stupid. I up and jump countries every few years. Each time, I'm switching to a new number. I'm the opposite of homeless, I'm that jet set elite. The idea that you want, need, should or will tie yo
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Someone should really put a webcam on the oldest continuously running lightbulb. The one that's been in that one firehouse since the early 1900s.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Psychology, as an establishment, by and large, is about putting a veneer of scientific legitimacy over forceful enforcement of societal norms. Within living memory homosexuality was a diagnosis in the DSM. There is no truth, only power. Kid
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>profound religious-mystical component If you're meeting god on your trips, I'm willing to bet you believed in god to begin with, and possibly believed you would meet him before your trip started. You see what you were expectin
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'm not confusing anything. The comment I'm replying to states "When have you last yelled at someone to place the 3D image of a swarm of krill in their minds?". Well, irrespective of what whales actually understand of th
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>Okay but that completely misses the point of what they were communicating. The comment I was replying to said >When have you last yelled at someone to place the 3D image of a swarm of krill in their minds? To which I say this is prep
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>They process sonar information in a visual way Which is certainly no harder than processing stero vision or stero sound, as pretty much every species with either two eyes or two ears does. >When have you last yelled at someone to p
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Their body is far more than a factor of 7.4 larger than ours. Accounting for most of the brain being IO wiring, and the fact that they mostly just have to swim with their mouth open to survive, there's no reason to believe whales are p

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