Stupulous

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by Stupulous 5y ago
Suppose we have some intelligence that cannot be simulated in a Turing machine because it invokes an uncomputable function. That intelligence as it exists in reality is computing something that cannot be computed by a Turing machine. It&#x2
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I believe whether there is a deterministic system underlying quantum behavior is still an open question. My suspicion is that nothing can produce true randomness, in whioh case Turing machines are incomplete only for nonexistent computation
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I'm responding to their claim in agreement with you.
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>If this is so, then we can conclude that a Turing machine also cannot possess AGI, because it fails to fulfil a necessary condition thereof. If your conclusion implies the existence of computation beyond Turing machines, you should prob
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I think it's 'pored over' not doing enough work. I pictured him sitting there, very focused, watching the footage and thought, 'Oh, so he spent a week and a half on this'. But, thinking about it more, he's prob
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I have never understood the rejection of walls as an effective means of preventing access. Ladders, tunnels, battering rams, and 'going around' have all existed for millenia, but we've kept on building walls the whole time. H
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I agree with your general point, but I think you're overstating it a bit. Global warming doesn't pose a human extinction or civilizational collapse level threat in the next century. Tens or hundreds of millions of deaths, untold q
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He thought a few thousand randos with (very generously) a hundred guns and no apparent willingness to use them or kill anybody would be able to overthrow the US Government. And now his plan is to spearhead an actual coup at in 2028, when he
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I think you're confusing cause and effect. The constitution was an agreement between states, and the senate was a compromise to ensure signers would retain power even if their population was dwarfed by other states. It is highly unlike
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Slavery existing at the time this country was founded does not make it a founding principle. The only constitutional component of slavery was intended to reduce the power of slave states, and most of the country abolished slavery by 1804.
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Why didn't he just do that last time?
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Yeah, I replied to the wrong comment, sorry. I navigated away and skimmed to figure out where I was when I came back.
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You don't even need this. I searched "unblur" in Google Play Store, downloaded the first result, tweaked the settings a touch, and I could make out the characters. The whole process took a couple minutes. If the data actually
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If refusing to work with a company is impossible, it's a monopoly, right? Otherwise, you are free to respond to the too-powerful company the same way you respond to the too-expensive sandwich. If a company is using its power to do som
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Finland, Norway, and Sweden are all capitalist countries. They just have better welfare institutions than the US.
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I think the argument is that absent corporate lobbying, politicians can still be influenced. Something else will fill the position, and the total amount of influence over politicians not granted democratically will be unchanged. Maybe that&
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Surely the same fallacy is the reason we care about these species in the first place? You can kind of make an argument from entropy, an extinction cuts off our access to information about a species. But if that were the reason, taking sampl
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by Stupulous 5y ago
I think the issue here is just that >the landowner of that 1944 sighting can be read in two ways. I assume you meant the person who owned that land when it was taken away, and that's how I read it. But it's not unreasonable to
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I'm not positive, but I think they were talking about Apple's competitors rather than their users. Samsung, for example, dropped the aux port for dongles soon after Apple.
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That's absurd. Highways are much safer than local roads.
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Re: one a day By coincidence, earlier today I had the same idea. I was thinking about how so much of what you encounter in social media is biased towards people who post a lot. In politics, for example, most people are relatively moderate.
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by Stupulous 5y ago
It's unusual, you'd expect more names with more people. Maybe it's a cultural difference of how much we value individuality vs the collective? Or maybe not. There are 38,000 James Smiths in the US, and 294,000 Zhang Weis in C
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by Stupulous 5y ago
If solar is used instead of nonrenewables, regardless of whether load has peaked, you decrease carbon output for each watt generated. In the chart on wikipedia, it looks like you could double California solar output without adding storage.
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On reflection, I'd like to retract this. I was reading quickly and didn't understand what I was replying to. It is not my belief that, left to its own devices, natural language will become unusable. It is probably true that we can
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In the last half of the last millenium, we achieved widespread literacy, invented the printing press, made publishing available to the public, and invented the internet. I don't think we can assume the process that worked before this t
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If people raise objections, that suggests that they are having issues with understanding. I know I've been confused by it before, and I usually feel compelled to use modifiers to distinguish between 'literally millions' and &
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Wikipedia says the restriction was only for a couple weeks: >In December 2020, Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis in the Delhi High Court... >..
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I'm not disputing that there is a link between fines and poverty or between poverty and crime. But I can't fathom how 5% of assaults and burglaries are a direct result of getting a fine in the last two months. Even in your perfect
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I don't think this works as a causal explanation. A decrease in petty fines shouldn't be significant enough at changing poverty to be reflected in crime rates in just a couple months. You'd also expect a delay as the fines th
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People who believe in things like flat earth have already rejected argument from authority. Ostensibly, fact-checkers exist for the benefit of people who do trust experts but also would be convinced by a random facebook post. Maybe such peo

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