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by Udo 6y ago
Let me preface this by saying that I'm not a simulation theory supporter, and my opinion is that if the universe is a simulation, it's probably NOT one of the two most commonly-supposed types: ancestor simulations and matrix-lik
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by Udo 6y ago
The concept of consciousness in a philosophical sense is not scientific to begin with, hence it's not really possible for science to offer an explanation that would satisfy you. Science has the tools to explain any physical process, su
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by Udo 6y ago
> Sorry, yes, I meant nondenominational. I know, and actually that's how I assumed/read it. I think we both agree that nondenominational deities are not religious material (by definition). They have a certain appeal because t
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by Udo 6y ago
> It's always about how the Earth is 6000 years old [...] And likewise what came before the big bang? The mistake here is to treat both of these equally. One is a set of very specific but unsubstantiated claims about the nature of
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by Udo 6y ago
> I sort of love that the AI prefers solid gray over any sort of creativity or complexity Well that's this specific AI... > A preview of... gray goo! We are the gray goo, or rather: our ecosystem is. A flood of self-replicati
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by Udo 6y ago
Started working on https://rolz.org/ again after a years-long hiatus. It's a site for tabletop/pen&paper roleplaying. It started out many years ago as a simple dice roller, it parses and executes commonly used
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by Udo 6y ago
They got to live an absolutely fantastic and long life doing what they loved doing, being successful in all the right ways. I can only try to imagine what that must feel like. Life endings are a tragedy per se, but this one doesn't see
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by Udo 6y ago
It's not GitHub who stole the code, it's a GitHub user who published it there against the licensing terms. While I do share the author's frustration with the fact that GitHub does zero fact checking, my concerns go entirely i
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by Udo 6y ago
The misleading part about almost any mention of "millions of degrees" is that people implicitly expect this happens under earthly conditions, when in fact these values are typically just a reference to the speed of atoms in a rari
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by Udo 6y ago
> Perhaps you are in a position to make such choices, but it's not a realistic option for most developers most of the time. You're implying a context that was not really part of my post or the post I was replying to. I didn&#
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by Udo 6y ago
With languages as complex as modern C++, I always tend to hunt for a subset of features that makes me happy and productive, and effectively discard the rest. Compared to that, I think there is relatively little in Go that one may want to di
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by Udo 6y ago
After combining two broken Amiga 500s into one single working one, I had an Amiga case and an Amiga keyboard left over. The nice thing about the Amiga keyboard is that it is pretty much a serial device, so it wasn't hard to set up an A
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by Udo 6y ago
> Where is the right place to draw the line between your state's civic values, and respect for traditions that are not strictly yours? I advocate we draw the line where people are harmed. In other cases it may not be as clear, but
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by Udo 6y ago
> We are not talking about dogmas! I'm not sure about that. To keep with the examples you stated earlier as being normative (namely being disgusted by homosexuality and being an early riser), for example, I am neither. Which accor
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by Udo 6y ago
Good point, thank you! I have the bad habit of editing posts for a few minutes until they're done, and posting raw versions as I'm working on them. I should probably stop that.
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by Udo 6y ago
> expeting the majority of people not to expect you to be productive at 8.00 AM is anti-social > expecting the majority of people not to be insinctively disgusted by your sexual practices is anti-social I strongly object to this cha
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by Udo 6y ago
While I do appreciate that feature, it's also very spotty. More than once I downloaded something only to later find that it won't play when I'm offline on a plane. Also, whenever Youtube decides to ban or suspend a video, it
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by Udo 6y ago
That doesn't matter. As development stops, youtube-dl will stop being able to download videos in a matter of months (at best). This is an extremely brittle system that relies on youtube-dl being one step ahead of Youtube at all times.
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by Udo 6y ago
I agree with this. Since any path to becoming high status attracts heavy gate keeping quickly (essentially clearing that path for people who have high status to begin with) it seems reasonable that people try to "hide" in low stat
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by Udo 6y ago
> I'm 100% atheist but I've considered reading the bible because it's culturally significant. But isn't just a bunch of boring and inconsistent tales? is there really anything to be learned from the bible? I went to
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by Udo 6y ago
It's a patch a best, and I wager many people here see the side effects already on the horizon: faulty algorithms tagging actual information as misinformation, news organizations continuing to skid by while spewing misleading claims, vi
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by Udo 6y ago
The categorization is interesting, from today's perspective. Things that the author asserts are "without criminal intent": rebellion, vengeance, involuntary criminal love. And then even more interesting, "with criminal i
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by Udo 6y ago
That depends on what you mean by biology-based tech, afterall, we're also a civilization deeply rooted in biology-based tech. It's not necessarily the case that all organic materials are ephemeral over these timespans. Assuming th
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by Udo 6y ago
That is great to hear Abner, thank you very much for all your efforts! Because I couldn't make it to Seattle last year, I missed the entire thing, it would be awesome to see some of the presentations.
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by Udo 6y ago
There also used to be a meetup in Seattle https://www.handmade-seattle.com/ (which has since moved online due to the pandemic situation) but in the past they had some pretty good presentations and interesting speakers. You
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by Udo 6y ago
> asphyxiated brain cells actually never die and there is some base level electrical activity What you're describing is physically impossible and has in fact never been observed by science. Electrical activity implies chemical act
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by Udo 7y ago
Based on your stated preference: Critical Thinking and Intelligence Analysis by David T. Moore, also available online: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a481702.pdf
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by Udo 7y ago
> I'm happy Musk _is_ obsessed. I can definitely empathize with that, I'm happy with what's being achieved as well. Seing how SpaceX and Tesla are routinely achieving their goals and arguably change the world, I often ca
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by Udo 7y ago
> This argument is twisted out of shape. That's true. > Basically, you're saying that keiferski is making the claim "we don't know whether cells are machines", which he should prove. No. He/she challe
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by Udo 7y ago
> you are making assumptions about the fundamental structure of the mind based on our current narrow understanding of it I'm trying to think of a way that would not have us go in circles ad infinitum. So I'll try one last tim

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