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by armitron 10y ago
He writes: "Nothing about neuroscience, computation, or philosophy prevents it. Thinking is an emergent property of activity in networks of matter. Minds are what brains – just matter – do. Mind can be done in other substrates
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by armitron 10y ago
There are people living with full blown ego-loss, no "I" there at all. It can be quite hard to get to grips with, like being part of a 2D canvas (the perception of depth-space and also time is extremely warped). It is fascinating
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by armitron 10y ago
This was fun, so kudos, but deeply flawed I feel. It's basically Tim Leary/Robert Anton Wilson's model dressed in psychobabble. I'd give her more credit if she at least credited/referenced them and let's also n
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by armitron 10y ago
Even if "you" (who/what is "you" by the way?) do understand the principle "you" have mentioned, the mind will experience cognitive dissonance. It can't be avoided as it happens on a layer below consc
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by armitron 10y ago
It'll have a hard time in systems programming too, at least as far as converting people from C/C++. It will attract new talent, but it's obvious to me that people who have invested years in C or C++ will not jump to Rust. The
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by armitron 10y ago
I had a look at Robert Wright's course, it's irrelevant to this discussion but I will devote some time to it since I'm interested in its subject matter and have been for years. Thank you for suggesting it. I don't like t
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by armitron 10y ago
Can you name a single, widely used (outside the Haskell camp) opensource application written in Haskell? I can only think of "darcs" which for all intents and purposes was a failure. IIRC, one of the darcs retrospectives I've
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by armitron 10y ago
Look at my previous post for a definition of genius that makes more sense and a possible explanation for its current debasement.
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by armitron 10y ago
You could attempt to rationalize some of its (terrible) design decisions after-the-fact by finding convenient examples, but compared to the clarity and surety of straight-up assembly, C is a dystopian nightmare of enormous unseen complexity
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by armitron 10y ago
The Polgar sisters are not geniuses in any general sense of that word. Interesting enough as that "experiment" may have been, it only proved that certain persons of a certain background that includes genetic history unknown to us,
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by armitron 10y ago
That depends on your definition of genius, which seems to differ widely from mine but also if one takes "genius" to mean someone who does things a non-genius would not be able to do. There have been attempts in recent years to rol
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by armitron 10y ago
Your argument has merit, disregard the dissenters, just noise. The same is true for other great languages. In my view, Erlang, FORTH, Smalltalk. I've yet to meet anyone well-versed in these that didn't turn out to be a good progra
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by armitron 10y ago
The brain gives rise to the mind, in the same way that the physical computer, in operation, gives rise to abstract computational processes. Could you pinpoint these processes exactly in space/time? No. You can pause the computer and _i
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by armitron 10y ago
Of course his point of view also flies against systems theory and the last 60-70 years of radical progress that has been made in this domain. An ant colony is so much more than the sum of its parts. To call similar emergent systems "a
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by armitron 10y ago
Go and Julia are already reaping the benefits. I see no future for Python be that 2 or 3. It's not great at anything, but projects a veneer of friendliness (that one should quickly outgrow) on top of a pile of bad implementation decisi
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by armitron 10y ago
Not to mention that ESR was, at some point, a multi-millionaire. Pretty sure he still is, in which case that Patreon page of his would be nothing but a con.
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by armitron 10y ago
That's great to hear. On your donations page you have indicated that there will be a special fundraiser. If that's not the case still, I suggest you remove it as people could be waiting for it and not donating.
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by armitron 10y ago
Portability to various OSes and environments and working immediately out-the-box with no extra dependencies. That said, the patches I sat down to do would re-use native executables (md5, sha1) and wget/curl.
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by armitron 10y ago
I've been happily running SBCL and CCL on Linux and OSX for years without issues. CCL on Windows too. Guile has 1-2 people working on it part-time, and Windows/OSX are not a priority because: + GNU project, duh. + Nobody in Guile-
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by armitron 10y ago
The solution is far from simple if you want to do it in 100% Common Lisp as there's no CL HTTP client that can verify certificates. Maybe possible with drakma and cl+ssl and a custom configuration of the latter and a native OpenSSL lib
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by armitron 10y ago
> Its not that there are no documentation strings. Example: At the end of the day it's the quality of documentation that matters. He did document some of the generic functions but in manner that is not very productive, as the doc st
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by armitron 10y ago
Well for some of us the lesser evil is unacceptable. The rest will happily use Quicklisp. If I had to guess however, I would say that the vast majority of Quicklisp users are not aware of the tradeoffs they are making. It's troubling
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by armitron 10y ago
Quicklisp is not panacea, even though it simplifies matters to a substantial degree for people new to Common Lisp. On the other hand Quicklisp has serious issues: + Minimal if any documentation of internals. + A substantial chunk of the cod
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Emacs fork announced: LLVM JIT and more(reddit.com)
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by armitron 10y ago
No it wont, at least as far as Emacs is concerned. Nobody is stepping up to do the work, plus Guile has serious bugs on Windows and OSX, single-digit number of developers and few, if any, users. So Guile Emacs is really a pipe dream that pe
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by armitron 10y ago
Nothing of what Emacs or Common Lisp systems or Smalltalk systems do when they dump images relies on OS internals. Emacs unexec relied on glibc internals but the new portable dumper does away with that and only relies on gasp Emacs intern
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by armitron 10y ago
It's not smellier, it's actually a great feature. Dumping your own images will be extremely useful to many Emacs users.
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by armitron 10y ago
Emacs is not a text editor, this is a common fallacy. It's an entire environment, the closest thing that we have today to the Lisp Machines of myth and legend. An editor is simply one of the many applications it runs on top of the Emac
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by armitron 10y ago
Price for that board is preposterous especially considering it doesn't have the old Amiga custom chipsets to optionally run old software and games, but depends on emulation. How many years left till these vultures stop picking the bone
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by armitron 10y ago
The title is misleading, lots of parts are not opensource. Finally, it doesn't seem to run Linux mainline but custom patched older versions. TL;DR it's more of the usual ARM garbage

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