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by aninhumer 8y ago
> The p-zombie thought experiment entails the p-zombie world thought experiment, where a universe evolved with nothing but p-zombies, and this world is identical to our own. No? I don't see I need to imagine a parallel universe. I c
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>I was talking about partial p-zombie, which doesn't experience red color only. Ah sorry I missed that part of the argument. Yes, I agree that I can't imagine such a thing, because I don't think experience can be subdivide
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by aninhumer 8y ago
It certainly seems implausible that our physical brains would behave as if they experienced things without ever having any kind of input from that process, but not impossible. But the point of the idea of p-zombies isn't to describe so
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>You look at red apple, you think "such a nice red apple, but one side is a bit yellow". But "red" doesn't mean anything to you, you don't experience it. If you can imagine that Of course I can't imagin
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>in your mind it's possible that consciousness is not tied to physical qualities. Therefore, physicalism would necessarily be false. I mean, yes? I tend to assume physicalism, but I don't take it as axiomatic. >And this is b
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by aninhumer 8y ago
No. I have absolutely no difficulty imagining such a thing. You might suppose that any physically identical entity must necessarily experience consciousness, and that may even be true, but this does not preclude imagining a p-zombie, an
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by aninhumer 8y ago
How do we know the experience itself influences behaviour? Just because we experience something that feels like a decision-making process does not mean that experience is part of the process itself. For all we know, our consciousness is jus
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by aninhumer 8y ago
It might influence it, or it might not. It's entirely plausible to me that the conclusions reached by the processes of ones mind, are completely separate from the experience of reaching those conclusions.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
This only proves that behaving identically to a human is reducible to an algorithm. The actual experience of consciousness is something secondary to behaviour. It's possible that an algorithm which behaves as a human experiences cons
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>maybe a sufficiently powerful computer running a sufficiently sophisticated program can be conscious. Maybe it can. People presenting the hard problem of consciousness do not usually exclude such a thing. The question is, what causes hu
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>very superficial and inducing very strong emotions. IMHO. I think spending part of your young adult life participating in the actions and socialisation of an institution, and then living in a society where everyone around you shares tha
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by aninhumer 8y ago
That still assumes that all Americans are American Nationalists, i.e. they prefer the prosperity of people living in America at the expense of others. I don't think that's necessarily true and I definitely don't think they &q
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by aninhumer 8y ago
As opposed to that parallel universe without capitalism where no improvements happened? You can't just point to improvements and say "look the system is good". If feudalism had remained the dominant system then we'd stil
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by aninhumer 8y ago
The article is about someone who is collecting data. If you're not collecting data, you can just reply saying you don't have any data about them.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
What exactly is the risk to a hobbyist here? Even if we assume a completely bizarre and pathologically incompetent regulator that somehow ends up zeroing in on some tiny website which exhibits no evidence of violation, the hobbyist might
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by aninhumer 8y ago
So in this hypothetical scenario, for some reason the regulator looks at your website, which presumably has no personal information inputs, no tracking analytics etc. and which you have asserted collects no personal information, and they de
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by aninhumer 8y ago
> Twenty-eight regulators appointed by different political groups are a complex system. You will need to gain expertise on them or hire someone with it. All I’m saying is that time and money might be better used elsewhere. Particularly b
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by aninhumer 8y ago
If you're not collecting any information "interfacing with the regulator" means replying to their email by saying "we're not collecting any information". (Assuming they even got that far, given that they'd
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by aninhumer 8y ago
This should be obviously false before you even start looking into the specifics. Do you think if everyone in the US just made different choices everyone would be millionaires in a generation? No? Then your advice doesn't work. Without
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by aninhumer 8y ago
One thing I've been thinking lately is that this should be baked into the process for every unit of work, not just those people expect to be difficult. Instead of estimating by guessing based on reading the requirements, work on an i
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by aninhumer 8y ago
> I don't promote a central authority ran by me that ranks people and rewards people based on their worth. I'm not talking about the system. I'm talking about your morality. If you say "A stupid person that contribute
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>I don't promote punishing people for not being contributing members of society I promote not rewarding them. Punishment and reward are relative in a connected economy. If you think that "A stupid person that contributes nothin
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>A stupid person that contributes nothing deserves nothing. People don't deserve things for existing. Well thank you for being honest enough that I don't feel the need to argue against you. Your hostility towards humanity speak
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Your entire point rests on the implicit moral premise that the "worth" of a human should determined by their ability to produce utility for society. But why should that be? If someone, for whatever reason, is less able to produce
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by aninhumer 8y ago
I think you're conflating cash meaning the physical currency and cash meaning the liquid asset here? A cashless society is about the former, and as far as I know, the 10% limit is about the latter? (EDIT: I believe in some systems the
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Inflation doesn't make much difference to inequality, because the wealth of the rich is primarily assets not cash.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Yes of course? If you're trying to suggest that higher income socialists won't like it if they're the ones being taxed, then I don't think you understand socialists.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>Even though I may contribute to horrific consequences on a business level, at the personal level I am still a good man. It's true that on some level, we exist within a system that forces us to make bad choices, and in general I thi
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Competition is also inherently inefficient though. It involves having at least two organisations doing the same thing, which likely involves a lot of duplicated effort. It also leads to organisations spending money on things like advertisin
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by aninhumer 8y ago
It only "helps" if you want to dismiss the horrific consequences of the system because they make you uncomfortable.

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