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Would that actually work, though, or would it just cook itself? I think the general question to ask is, for a given organism or machine, at what point does it stop being cost effective to make it smarter? Nature doesn't just keep human
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> It's pretty hard to believe that being able transfer knowledge between digital brains (something that seems arguably inevitable) I don't think it's necessarily inevitable. It is not a given that future hardware architect
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Some people don't like lying about what they are doing, even if they can't get caught. Small scale cooperation between honest people would probably work for that reason. On a large scale, it probably wouldn't be very efficien
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> it could exist in issolated-enough patches of the Universe. Photons, gravitational waves or neutrinos coming from those regions would not differ in any way, so we would not be able to identify those regions, up until they merge with no
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I'm not a fan of the teleological angle I'm seeing here. The universe doesn't serve a purpose, it's not doing a "job", any level of complexity is needless. Putting that misgiving aside, I think I get what you&#
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What other theories fit the data that we do observe?
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Yes, to me that seems the only sensible way to interpret free will. I think that the whole determinism vs randomness debate boils down to the fact that when we make a choice, for example whether to order soup or a sandwich, we have to hold
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I mean, if QM wasn't true we would observe something else, wouldn't we? I don't understand how this is a meaningful question.
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> If it was just classical physics, then you get yourself into the thinking that you can rewind time and all the "billiard balls" knock into each other the same way, which is why you order a soup and not a sandwich every single
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That seems extremely unlikely to me. There are 1D and 2D cellular automata that are Turing complete and could arguably support life if they were scaled wide enough. Any virtual reality you can simulate on a computer could have been a physic
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Given the infinite number of ways the universe could have been, it seems kind of a mathematical truth that whatever it ended up being was incredibly improbable to begin with. I would tend to say that unless it is logically necessary for the
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I've bought a bunch of LEGO during the pandemic and I very rarely see pieces that are only present in one set (and when I do they are mostly printed pieces, or standard shapes with unusual colors). I think that what makes the models mo
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I guess I can understand the idea of blockchains as a better way to play financial games. That's a valid use for which there is demand. Another use I can understand is hedging against political instability. Neither personally appeal to
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> I think it’s mostly jealousy and a feeling that they missed the boat, so they want to see it sink. If crypto and defi live up to their promise, no one is going to "miss the boat". People at large will start getting paid in cr
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Meh, every OS has its problems. The issues I have had with Linux have been consistently more annoying than those I have had with MacOS. I'm sure it's the opposite for some people.
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> Do you really think people in the 1200's could fathom a phone or the internet or access all information that ever has been on a device that fits on your phone? Yes? People in the 1200s could fathom gods and magic, why not phones?
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It depends on location, if you're biking in a city at rush hour you're stopping every other block, getting stuck behind other cyclists, and at least where I live, constantly slowing down to avoid getting killed by potholes. There&
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That would imply the computer we are simulated on is isomorphic to the 3D universe it is simulating, i.e. that if A and B are close in the simulation, the storage for A and B are physically close in the simulator, and that the storage moves
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Computers have to run even when we're not looking at them, at the very least.
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> Call, text, scroll social media, take photos, or make Google searches. That kind of stuff. None of those activities require powerful hardware, so I will never understand why some smartphones need processors more powerful than the damn
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The stated resolution of the screen is 3024x1964. If you do the math, this basically amounts to a 3024x1890 16:10 display, with a 3024x74 extra display on top that is interrupted in the middle. Considering that the menu bar usually has empt
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The aspect ratio of the new MBP seems to come out to 16:10.4. I assume that the 0.4 is the notch zone, and the part of the screen below it is 16:10. So it's really just a standard 16:10 with some extra pixels, which sounds good to me.
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If personal ownership of the whole or part of a corporation is possible, and that this ownership can be traded or sold, the existence of multi-billionaires follows rather directly. "Not allowing" billionaires to exist essentially
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It might depend on how you organize your time. I could see how working for 4 consecutive hours might have proportionally the same amount of unproductivity, but maybe splitting it in two blocks of two hours with a two hour pause in-between w
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I don't think unproductive hours are random, but I suspect that for mental work the productivity ratio decreases more dramatically in the last hour of each day than the last day of a week. Basically, from a pure productivity standpoint
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The main issue, at least for me, is that I simply cannot focus for 8 hours in a single day. If I was to work 2 hours a day for four days, I would likely get more done than if I "worked" 8 hours one day.
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> If you want that, just enable strict mode for mypy. But I can't do that if I want to do gradual typing. If I type a function, but the type system cannot figure out what's going to call it, that's when I want it to perfor
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I don't think typing is the main obstacle to Python performance, otherwise it wouldn't be that much slower than JavaScript. In fact, there are several alternative interpreters that are much faster, but they entail incompatibilitie
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For Python, but only if execution is deterministic, I made a small library that tries to address that issue: https://github.com/breuleux/breakword (it prints data alongside a deterministic list of words and you can set

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