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I suspect "flow" necessarily demands intense focus, so mundane tasks can't lead to a flow state. Focus is probably the wrong word since that suggests conscious control, whereas most flow seems to relegate consciousness to the
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I'm not sure about "harshly censured", but I have actually started looking at Python alternatives with the explicit goal of energy efficiency. Another route I've been keenly pursuing is aggressively reducing download siz
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Yeah I'm wondering about the childcare burden picked up by their partners, and how much disposable income they have for childcare.
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I use https://github.com/pcarrier/gauth It relies on file permissions so is not exactly robustly secure (no idea about RAM vulnerabilities etc). As per the author, I consider my laptop the fundamental point of vulnerab
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Nice. A couple of comments. Obvious question about Google (and the others I guess): are you in breach of their Terms? How are you scraping results? How can you require people using this that it will continue to exist, or is it a proof of co
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Same. Firefox on Android.
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Dude, come on. That statement needs several strong caveats.
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Fair. I may have lost track of which problems take which titles :)
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From the website of the lab doing this https://corticallabs.com Human neural networks raised in a simulation The neurons exist inside our Biological Intelligence Operating System (biOS). biOS runs the simulation and sends inform
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Indeed. Although the lab couldn't check for signs of consciousness. If they'd been able to do so, they'd have cracked the "hard problem" of consciousness, which would be far bigger news. So this is blather at best,
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This leads to a circular problem: if we resist the notion that we're just scaled-up Petri dish brains (perhaps because we "feel conscious") how can we be sure the Petri dish mini-brains are so different from us? In which case
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Except the lab doing this make no mention of treating disease. They want to "shortcut machine learning" by using living tissue to perform tasks: https://corticallabs.com/
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Erm no. I'm not advocating morality driven by "duty". I'm pointing out the pragmatic issue that we don't know where we're heading, so perhaps we should pause and have a good hard think about the possibilities :
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Indeed. Although some of us try to opt out of that stuff too, as much as possible. The ethical questions raised by anomalous situations like this indicate that our historical decisions may need revising.
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My second step still stands :) The unique data-point here is that we are creating these "mini brains". I'm not invoking a knee-jerk "sCiEnTiSTs pLaY g0d OMG!" reaction, but I will invoke Goldblum's Objection:
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Well.... no. It's only necessary to know whether suffering exists (it does). After that it's sufficient to consider whether there's a greater than zero chance of creating it (there seems to be). That's enough to say
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Genuine question: why "should" we be going in this direction?
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They're biological. A lot can happen :) Remember this includes weirdness like viruses, tumors, aging... as well as specifically neural stuff like habituation (diminished sensitivity to repeated stimulation), sensitisation (increased se
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If I was homeless I'd certainly try to move in with friends or relatives. Not garbage :)
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If I'm in a meeting where someone suggests using opaque technical language to deliberately reduce reach... I'm voting that down :) Use simple language that everyone understands. You might gain some converts.
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While I fully agree with the sentiment here, paying or donating doesn't necessarily prevent ads. Some software and entertainment providers just jam ads into everything, even for paying customers. But yes, I do agree that paying for FOS
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Someone please scan this, extract all the faces, and create an avatar generator.
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It's certainly not garbage, read it again: people who have "experienced homelessness at some point in their lives".
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"Invented by plants" does not necessitate "evolved from plants". Your TV doesn't contain mitochondria :)
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> very, very niche audience The homeless are certainly not a niche audience. There might be between 13 and 26 million people in the US alone who have experienced homelessness at some point in their lives [0]. Besides, issues around perma
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There's a huge number of options that aren't "be a disaster capitalist" or "work at a FAANG". HN et al are keen to "find a pain point" and iterate solutions. The pain point that millions of people are
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Sounds like a really shitty experience. Just a reminder of something which you know anyway: it's the perpetrator's fault, not yours. I guess I want to say something trite like "don't hang onto regret (or what feels like
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Hi from an internet stranger! Have you sought help? Please do, even if you think the worst is past. Best wishes :)
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I don't know if it's any consolation, and I'm sure you've considered this, but it's impossible to remember and perfectly grasp the nuance of every moment spent with anyone. There's an inevitable loss, not just
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That's somewhat of a departure from the point. (a) Whales have big brains, whales use them for complex behaviour. (b) Brain size is relatively unrelated to complex behaviour. Kinda "a dog has four legs, a dog uses its legs to run&

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