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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
The exploit could be a DoS attack. I don't think it's that contrived to have a service that runs an expensive operation at a fixed rate, controlled by the user, limited to 1 operation per minute.
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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
The ad blocker popup has a close button. It still lets you read the article.
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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
> some even saying that verbal thoughts are the only thing that are important enough to be called "thoughts"! For anyone who thinks this, what happens if you start thinking a thought in words, and then stop partway through the
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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
Right, but you should be able to tell after the first half that smoking the 2nd half is a bad idea. The "skill issue" isn't not being able to handle a whole joint, it's not knowing when to stop, which is something you sh
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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
> It's like a dim picture You don't have aphantasia. In people with aphantasia, there is no "it" to describe.
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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
It's still not comparable to mkdir and find. The arbitrary limit in C is not fixed by the code. So if you run out of space on a 32-bit machine with sizeof(size_t) == 4, you can run the same code on a 64-bit machine with sizeof(size_t
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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
Independence of irrelevant alternatives doesn't seem like a desirable property to me. It suggests that someone ranking a candidate 2nd vs 100th does not tell you anything about how much they prefer their 1st choice to that candidate. S
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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
When I say "consciousness", the concept that I mean isn't reducible to other concepts. It's a concept that can only be found through introspection. And it seems like many have noticed the same concept, so we can label it
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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
You watch, but you also influence. If you had no influence on your thoughts, you wouldn't think "I am the watcher".
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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
> Randall chose one of the lowest point every in the history of earth as the "baseline". Randall's graph starts at a little over 4C lower than current temperatures. The most recent minimum on your first graph is 7C below c
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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
Your criticism is all correct, in the sense that I haven't pinned down what I mean well enough to avoid it. Unfortunately, I mean by "subjective experience" is ineffable. And the reason it's ineffable is also ineffable.
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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
My subjective experience is simply in a different category from math. I can't really explain it because subjective experience is ineffable. Asking to describe it mathematically is like asking to write a poem that tastes salty. You can
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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
If there are only mathematical rules, then there isn't something that it's like to be me. I know that is false by experiencing the thing that it's like to be me. Perhaps there isn't anything that it's like to be you
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by a_cardboard_box 2y ago
> humans obey to the same physical rules. We do not know how the universe works on a fundamental level. We don't know if the universe can be simulated by a Turing machine. I think it's clear it can't. 1) I have subjective
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
I can visualize the ball without color, so while having aphantasia implies no color, the converse is not true. It's sort of like an autostereogram, but with only the depth effect and no color at all.
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
I think the best argument for consciousness having an effect on the physical world is that the physical world contains a formulation of the hard problem of consciousness. If consciousness doesn't affect what words get written, then no
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
Why shouldn't stuff be allowed to spontaneously come into existence? Why should there be any rules at all to begin with? If there is truly nothing, then there isn't any rule to force the nothing to stay nothing. So the question be
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
There's a followup tweet explaining it, which you wouldn't see if you're not logged in: > This is the first md5 collision with only printable ascii that I know of. I have been asked before if this was possible, but I used
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
> A while back I realised there must be at least two: me, and the first person who talked or wrote about it such that I could encounter the meme. Perhaps you invented the meme, but have since forgotten.
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
2KiB ROM and 128B RAM happens to be exactly what the Atari 2600 launch titles used. Interesting that the same numbers would pop up in newer hardware projects.
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
You can also do quadratic smoothing without additional state, by moving towards the target with a speed proportional to the square root of the distance. Unlike exponential smoothing, this will actually reach the target.
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
High-functioning autistic people would meet the 2nd definition when trying to predict what neurotypical people would think. But they're also probably better at predicting what other high-functioning autists would think than neurotypica
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
Initially there is an equal chance that there are 99 or 100 red balls. But if there is a green ball, it is unlikely to be the last picked. So the fact that you saw 99 red balls makes it unlikely there is a green ball.
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
Moving up layers works in software because the lower layers work automatically. But when using my brain, my subconscious can only do very simple things for me and it's very difficult to teach it anything new. So I can move up a layer w
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
Stress is subjective. It doesn't have to align with objective measures. Evolution has selected for stress to work to favor survival in a certain environment, but we're no longer in that environment. If we needed support networks i
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
Put a fourth way, every second the operator works can feed about 4 people for a day.
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
> No, you are not gaming the system - you are getting to the even point of a stupid, unfair one. You are also reinforcing the stupid unfair system. The game is created by playing it.
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
The sun imparts a certain amount of energy into the earth through tidal forces. We can either capture that energy for our use, or let it heat the Earth ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_heating ). The slowdown of the
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
You can blame Sony for not securing the rights to keep the content available. If I rent a car and sell it to you, it's my fault when the owner takes it back.
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by a_cardboard_box 3y ago
Answering my own question based on Oppenheim's lecture[1]: In his theory, the stochastic interaction between quantum and classical states necessarily causes the wave function to collapse, so it is not compatible with many-worlds. Being

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