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by JonnieCache 10y ago
It's not a joke. It's literally someone on the verge of a psychotic break from reading too many LessWrong blogposts. Those folks aren't only into game-theoretic polyamory and shitty harry potter fanfiction, far from it. Just
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
You can ask this same question about transmissions between ones subjective experience and ones neurons, and the only serious difference between sams answer and modern answers is that sam makes an unwarranted number of assumptions, and as su
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
>say I throw a bucket full of sand on the ground... What happens if I homomorphically encrypt the AI and delete the key? What happens if I run the AI in a quantum computer such that the algorithm runs only if a particular atom decays,
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
>doesn't that mean everything in the universe is self-aware? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism David Chalmers, contemporary philosopher of mind, notably espouses this view. He's like the Anti-Den
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
Follow that train of thought to it's logical conclusion, and you end up here, via Big Yud: http://kruel.co/backup/Ontological%20Therapy.png Still cracks me up, that page. (BTW you should definitely read Permulat
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
>Security through obscurity. I thought we all have learned that it doesn't work We've all learned that it can't be relied upon as a sole defence.
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
> otherizing what? Can you explain what you mean here? I know what "othering" means but I have no idea how you would do it to a technology, or what it means to write it with the "-ize" suffix.
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
The people who make film/game soundtracks need a LOT of ram, and fast disks, because they're using terabytes of samples in each project. Also massive has pretty low requirements. The main gripe musicians have with apple is the new
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
>different hardware which is not Linux compatible (WiFi). link? I heard they had crappy broadcom chipsets but would be good to get some specific info. TBH the sites i looked at last night seemed to say the current hardware that ships
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
What makes system76 laptops better than the XPS 13?
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
That's a modern trend, due to the loudness-war arms race: brightness in that 2-5k area is perceived as loudness and clarity. Also it helps things pop through on the tiny speakers in laptops and mobile devices. Some speakers and headpho
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
Chain Reaction Records FTW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUWXoGTMePo&list=PLB851A38A6... If you want it more boring even than that you could go for some drone music from the likes of Thomas Köner or Celer, or Gas. Bey
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
Tracks got bounced (ie. rendered/recorded/exported) to DAT tapes. The record wasn't just stored in the sampler and computer, it was in the state of the whole studio, at a minimum the mixing desk the sampler was plugged into b
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
Pretty sure dev Paradox still tours with his amiga: https://vimeo.com/10383653 (I love that video)
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
The 'undefined' error in the CLI tool, the generic "this operation failed" messages in the dashboard, the unexplained authentication failures. If I encountered those multiple times when trialing a service like this, I wo
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
I think the issue is more than the tooling randomly spills its spaghetti, rather than some percentage of instances failing, which is obviously expected. Personally some of those screenshots would cause me to run a mile if I ever encountered
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
I had one of these badboys, which I filled with music from DC++ (those were the days.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos_Jukebox_series I wish I still had it so I could laugh at how big and heavy it is, with its 20g
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
In my imagination he went completely insane trying to write the porn book. If you want a good continuation, check out Jordan Peterson, who has a much wider framework into which TLP's somewhat narrow worldview can be fitted. He is also
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
The resturant they're talking about is Burger Off, in Hove. They famously make you sign a disclaimer before you eat the burger. I've seen several people attempt it, and they've all regretted the decision. Brighton also has an
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
It's good in general to be careful of the "this is what I think people are like" genre of blogging. Especially when it's presented with such certainty. See also: slate star codex, TLP. At least those two are working psyc
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
Charlie Brooker has already thoroughly massacred the procedural format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Touch_of_Cloth
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
There's also the connection to Art Brut , a term for outsider art which was popular around the same time. It is only in french that there are these connections though, in english as well as many other languages it only has the harsh,
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
If you're interested in brutalism I can reccommend these superb documentaries by Jonathan Meades: https://meadesshrine.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/bunkers.html That site has all of his films on there and they&#x27
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
I remember FYAD doing the same thing to an eliza implementation that had learning back in the day, in like 2004. Plus ca change...
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
>general catalog of human discourse I would contest this. Twitter represents a very narrow sector of society.
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
A lot of ISPs have (probably unenforcable) clauses in their ToS saying your can't run services.
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
Here's a link to the videos from FXQi's Setting Time Aright conference, where there are lots of talks addressing the relationships between cosmology, QM and entropy with regards to time, with David Albert, Sean Carroll, Max Tegm
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
Or you can represent the music as instructions to performers or synthesizers (ie notation) and you've got as many dimensions as you want. Music is not sound, it's made of sounds. The fact that it gets mixed down to a single wavefo
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
How is music 1-dimensional?
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by JonnieCache 10y ago
Reaper is amazing. I only recently found out it's made by ex nullsoft people. It works well for me under wine.

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