Thiez

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by Thiez 2y ago
I'll admit to disliking the color of your curtains and they'll find the jerrycan for my lawnmower and suddenly I'm the prime suspect for arson. Sorry neighbour I'm not talking to the cops, hope you have insurance.
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by Thiez 2y ago
Wouldn't these hypothetical ticks only be a problem for him if he wants to walk through your barkyard? Never mind that ticks can and do live in short grass just fine...
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by Thiez 2y ago
One of those cases happens accidentally all the time (in more complex variants than the motivating example you responded to), the other never happens except on purpose. It's like complaining guard rails are pointless because people bei
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by Thiez 2y ago
We should probably kill the people advocating genocide and the use of nuclear weapons first.
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by Thiez 2y ago
That seems unlikely, as neural networks don't all develop exactly the same. There is some natural variance which brain regions perform which function. E.g. Broca's area (very important for speech) only 'usually' lies on
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by Thiez 2y ago
That's a nice story but does it make any testable predictions? Because it appears to introduce many new concepts that would be measurable with particle physics, yet mysteriously have never been observed. And if these magic soul particl
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by Thiez 2y ago
So rich people? So they can save money while people who can't afford a battery cannot. I guess it's like this for most cost-saving investments, but doing it this way hardly contributes to a more fair society.
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by Thiez 2y ago
I'm not in or from the US either. It's a common rule though. The word of a burglar alone hopefully isn't enough for a conviction anywhere, but it should be sufficient for a warrant in sane jurisdictions.
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by Thiez 2y ago
Generally evidence gathered by the authorities may not be tainted, to discourage the police from breaking the law to gather evidence. This restriction does not usually apply to evidence collected by private citizens. In other words, if a bu
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by Thiez 2y ago
Exactly. In practice you always want each loop iteration to perform some action that brings you closer to some desired end state. That loop invariant + some notion of getting closer to the end is usually the proof you need to prove terminat
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by Thiez 2y ago
Adding UTF-8 support in 2024 is hardly second system syndrome. Note that these re-implementations generally try to be compatible with the original rather than starting with a completely new vision, another sign that we're not suffering
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by Thiez 2y ago
Large groups of people in society already hate immigrants. What makes you think they would welcome useless old and sick people from long ago? They're like immigrants, but worse! Face reality: when you've been on ice long enough th
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by Thiez 2y ago
Denial of service by blocking API keys is really your happy case when someone malevolent has your API keys.
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by Thiez 2y ago
Both of those cases involve the dissolution of the state holding the veto power. While dissolving the UK would be hilarious, I imagine they would veto it.
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by Thiez 2y ago
So they'll be eating this rice raw, then? Raw uncooked rice with a nice cup of seawater to quench their thirst.
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by Thiez 2y ago
Science is based on the hypothesis that stuff that worked yesterday will work the same way tomorrow, and it tries to discover the rules that govern the stuff. There is nothing religious about it. It's a safe assumption to make; if ther
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by Thiez 2y ago
There's always 'reports' of people being able to do these magical things that cannot be explained through modern science. And yet challenges such as these https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prizes_fo
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by Thiez 2y ago
It's no coincidence that Frank has his own beer brand: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huyghe_Brewery , so that we may commune with him.
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by Thiez 2y ago
There is nothing religiously fanatical about seeing that everything in science appears to be explained by our laws of physics, and concluding that human consciousness probably is, too. In our history we've seen time and time again that
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by Thiez 2y ago
And 200 years ago only living being could fly, but now we have machines that can fly higher and faster than any bird, even to Mars. But back then you could have said flight requires a living being because that's all we've ever see
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by Thiez 2y ago
But since we can't yet define consciousness, how do you know the AGI is just 'faking it' instead of being the real deal? What are human brains but a bunch of neurons pretending to be a person?
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by Thiez 2y ago
Where did GP use this view to argue for the abolishment of the criminal justice system?
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by Thiez 2y ago
Why? Why can't the world be a cruel and indifferent place? Take for example the babies that had to be left behind by hospital staff in one of the Gaza hospitals when it was occupied by the IOF and when the doctors could come back a few
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by Thiez 2y ago
So then bacteria have souls? And computers will never have one since they're not biological. But also there doesn't seem to be a relationship between souls and consciousness, so they are irrelevant.
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by Thiez 2y ago
Humans aren't better at solving NP-hard problems so I don't really see the connection with consciousness here.
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Why?
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by Thiez 2y ago
I always think of this comic when people try to mix quantum mechanics and consciousness https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3 . You have to show an actual relation here, you can't just connect these two con
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by Thiez 2y ago
The world already has quite enough evolutionary "just so" stories. Our ancestors lived in trees, which presumably is safe from most predators, and standing upright isn't much of an advantage. Gathering would have been off the
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by Thiez 2y ago
Humans were quite good at preserving food before the invention of refrigeration, e.g. through drying and smoking for meat.
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by Thiez 2y ago
The human digestive tract is constantly creating new cells, it's a lot like skin in that sense. I doubt teens have much significantly more mitosis in their butts compared to adults.

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