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by arnoooooo 6y ago
This sounds like circular logic to me. It really saves money to people who want to buy and sell often, which has no social value. I think having a penalty for buying and selling too often is a feature, not a bug : we want investors that thi
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
Apparently, because they get well paid and get huge budgets to have high tech fun. Unfortunately, most people don't reflect too deeply on the social consequences of their choice of employment.
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
We've had lots of problems trying to use Thunderbird to migrate to Google suite (mostly network / TLS errors when connecting to Gmail).
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
I thought the main contributor to the rise was the thermal expansion of water as it heats up. I don't see a single mention of this in the article ?
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by arnoooooo 6y ago
"a full, relatively pain free life" is not at all an accurate description of anything related to factory farming. Also, karma is not about judgment. It's about each individual's own state of consciousness.
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
I'm not a fan of blockchains either, but to be fair, they could issue a compensating smart contract for the duration of the suspension.
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
1 ton is for one passenger (yes, flying is a climate catastrophy). So the 1k USD is for one passenger.
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'Scale of This Failure Has No Precedent': Hot Ocean Killed One Million Seabirds(commondreams.org)
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A Sense Enhanced Game of Life (2015) [pdf](pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
20 points by arnoooooo 7y ago|0 comments
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
I recommend looking up Donald Hoffman's theory of conscious agents. He proposes that all sentient beings are networks of conscious agents, the simplest conscious agent being binary (it has a world, and can only act in two ways). Any co
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
Except you'd need to keep track of windows inside the terminal, which is not obvious.
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
You could just as well interpret that "dually" though.
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
I understand what you mean. Yet when you are told something you have to be able to think "yes, this fits my experience, I can interpret it the way you say", otherwise you will not accept it as true. You seem well versed in the mat
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
I can't think of any test, no. But I don't think this makes discussions about consciousness useless. If you tell me something about your consciousness I can check if it fits my experience, and you can test something I say for your
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
If you are a human, I don't know for sure, but it seems reasonable to assume.
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
I meant experience in the form of sensory perception, followed by inference and comparison. I suppose you mean experience that would be tinted by interpretation ?
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
"nothing but causal relationships" is indeed all you'd need, provided they go the materialist way, i.e. that consciousness comes from specific arrangements of neurons. I don't think that makes sense, as nobody can give t
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
Have you ever had the experience of losing consciousness ? How long did it last, in your own experience ? I have been through deep sleep, knockouts and anesthesia, yet have never experienced the disappearance of my consciousness. Does deep
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
Actually, we all have consciousness, and can therefore experiment. A lot of experiments have been done about consciousness through meditation, psychedelics, etc.
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
That only works if neurons do generate consciousness. The only thing we know is that their activity seems to correlate with consciousness. My guess is that you can't build a digital Neuron, at least not one that has consciousness prope
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
Actually, he was, and Abrahamic religions are probably the reason for materialism in science. It all starts with the distinction between heaven and the earth, the spirit and the flesh… Abrahamic religions are fundamentally dualistic, by con
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
I also very much recommend reading Hoffman and watching his talks if you want precise wording and not new-age woo. Bernardo Kastrup is also interesting in that field.
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
advaita vedanta as I understand it is the actual scientific approach to consciousness, as it focuses strictly on experience.
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
Who says the brain loses consciousness when sleeping ? How do you discern between the absence of consciousness and the absence of objects in consciousness ?
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
agreed.
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
I think non-duality / advaita makes much more sense than panpsychism, as it requires less assumptions while remaining compatible with our experience. Panpsychism seems like a bandaid to solve the hard problem of consciousness, which no
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
You're forgetting the incentives to externalize such things. Developed countries love to pass their trash on to others who will be far less scrupulous. For instance, it's been documented that most non final nuclear waste in France
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Things are as they should be: doom and gloom(write.as)
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
I think the vedantic approach makes more sense. Can you (or can anyone) experience something outside of consciousness ? Why assume any such thing exists if we don't need it to explain our experience ? In the vedantic approach, matter i
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by arnoooooo 7y ago
There is no definition of "because it's wrong" where no one is wronged, unless you bring in religion. Still, someone can be wronged with their consent. Consent is not binary. That's why there are minimum salary laws for

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