TchoBeer

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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>Do you find "materialism" to require less handwaving than dualism? The upside to materialism is that the gap in our knowledge, namely why networks of neurons cause consciousness, is something we can acknowledge we don't k
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
If you have thoughts, you can't doubt whether or not you have thoughts. In order to do so you need to doubt yourself, which is a thought.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>How do you know anything is objectively real and not a product of some brain process? If that's true, then I know that brain processes are real.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Even more fun, there's some evidence that one of the ingredients in the frankincense that was burned in the Jewish temple (at least the second temple anyway) was Marijuana
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Would bible literalism be sensible if you understood Hebrew? Translation is a big problem with Christians specifically, but imo it's not "exactly the problem with religion".
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
What if they look up the lies and only find more misinformation and articles giving "both sides of the story".
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Does he not have that power, or does he not have the ability? Imo I think he has both.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
So the defining feature of intelligence is that the truly smart take actions with short term benefits at the cost of long term detriments?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Trench warfare, and really much of the technology used in WWI, was seen first in the American civil war
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I could've sworn I saw it for free on YouTube in 2018 or so. Am I just remembering wrong?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Do you have a source for this?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>since it alters the state you can see that it happened afterwards in a system What experiment shows this?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>We can’t reasonably be making “this type of refusal to do business is okay, but that one is not” based on moral agreements of individuals I totally disagree, that seems completely reasonable to me. Are we not allowed to say that doing s
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
If human language reflect human culture, and NLPs are trained on written text, is it impossible that they can have the cultural context to make such a translation? Is it impossible that an NLP can get a query like "translate this phras
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
The commenter's point was that there is information that can be expressed in one language but not another (they're not all essentially the same). The fact that you can't translate a figure of speech doesn't evidence this
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>A phrase like "not my cup of tea" would sound hilarious at best in most other languages. Only if translated literally word for word
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Maybe it having less ads made it a better experience, thus bringing in more ad revenue?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
This from personal experience, or is there a study on it?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
which is why globe-earth took over as the dominant view at least by 0 AD?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Wasn't C designed to be used in Unix as a successor to B?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>The answer is 4794820 how do we get the answer from here?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Category theory has many more practical applications than arithmetic?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Why would it be better for tens of tthousands of people to rewrite the same bit of code over and over again, ? This amount of code reuse sounds excellent to me.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>I'm a heavy Discord user and I have no complaints with the UX, I find it pretty intuitive to be honest. You say this like they should contradict, but heavy use of Discord should only make the UX more intuitive to you. Maybe it&#x27
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Porn isn't illegal either.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
We seem to be managing to get rid of smoking.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
How are you going to transmit transactions though?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
You can say "Creator of Doom and Quake" and/or "Founder of ID software"
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Their customers being ad companies
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Isn't this the problem Java was trying to solve? Why did that go out of fashion?

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