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Ask HN: Why not use AI to make professional wrestling look less fake?
1 points by amichail 1y ago|3 comments
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Jonathan Gorard: the complete first interview [video](youtube.com)
2 points by amichail 1y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is a strong volunteer military incompatible with a strong safety net?
3 points by amichail 1y ago|1 comments
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Periphery: A tool to identify unused code in Swift projects(github.com)
2 points by amichail 1y ago|0 comments
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The History of Cursor Keys [video](youtube.com)
1 points by amichail 1y ago|0 comments
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When the sun dies, could life survive on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa?(space.com)
80 points by amichail 1y ago|133 comments
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Ask HN: Would today's AIs fail the Turing test because their memory is too good?
2 points by amichail 1y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Will AI reduce stigma of geniuses becoming professional chess players?
1 points by amichail 1y ago|1 comments
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Timothy Gowers – Why Are LLMs Not Better at Finding Proofs? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by amichail 1y ago|0 comments
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Tick-borne disease is spreading into new parts of Canada(ctvnews.ca)
2 points by amichail 1y ago|0 comments
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Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java(swift.org)
15 points by amichail 1y ago|1 comments
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by amichail 1y ago
You can certainly make a robot without free will that tries to avoid being punished. In terms of humans without free will, evolution could make them try to avoid punishment as a survival instinct.
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by amichail 1y ago
Maybe astrology should be an academic field also and scientists should not mock it?
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by amichail 1y ago
A deterministic universe would make free will impossible. While a punishment in a deterministic universe can have a deterrence effect, it might not be the morally right thing to do.
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Ask HN: Should science ensure NDEs are pleasant without damaging the brain?
2 points by amichail 1y ago|3 comments
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by amichail 1y ago
If free will does not exist, then punishing people for wrong doing doesn't make sense. They should be isolated from society and rehabilitated if possible — just like people found not liable due to mental illness.
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by amichail 1y ago
Philosophy does not have much utility nowadays. Scientists should stop pretending that it does. Scientists who say they don't understand compatibilism should say what they really think about it (e.g., that it is nonsense or an attempt
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by amichail 1y ago
Compatibilism is not an obscure topic in philosophy. Its popularity reflects poorly on the field. If you read about it, you will notice they are redefining terms such as free will and moral responsibility to mean something else entirely. An
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by amichail 1y ago
It shows they have very poor peer review.
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by amichail 1y ago
What compatiblism is saying would be ok in an academic context if they define a new term like consistency instead of hijack free will to mean something else entirely. But even then, consistency of behavior in a deterministic world would not
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by amichail 1y ago
It's claiming that people without genuine free will can still be morally responsible. It does this by redefining genuine free will into something that isn't free will but still calling it free will. Why would anyone want to study
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Ask HN: Is "compatibilism" causing students to lose interest in philosophy?
1 points by amichail 1y ago|23 comments
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Ask HN: Will Tetris be eclipsed by a variant soon due to AI coding help?
1 points by amichail 1y ago|3 comments
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Type of Fiber Could Have Weight Loss Benefits Similar to Ozempic(sciencealert.com)
2 points by amichail 1y ago|1 comments
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Solar Storms Are Pushing Elon Musk's Satellites Back to Earth(gizmodo.com)
5 points by amichail 1y ago|1 comments
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The Theory of Everything That Nobody Talks About [video](youtube.com)
1 points by amichail 1y ago|0 comments
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Flying robot morphs in mid-air to land and roll on wheels(newatlas.com)
4 points by amichail 1y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Does CS underplay language choice while linguistics overplays it?
1 points by amichail 1y ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: What do you think of this Tetris variant that is simpler than Tetris?
1 points by amichail 1y ago|1 comments
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AI Isn't a Worker Replacement; It's a Human Replacement(old.reddit.com)
2 points by amichail 1y ago|0 comments

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