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Germany suspends approval of Russian pipeline, sending gas prices soaring(nytimes.com)
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by bryan0 5y ago
Cool. Just a note that if you’re modifying userChrome you need to enable toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets in FF advanced settings
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Tom Randele was dying, but he had to confess something to his family first(washingtonpost.com)
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by bryan0 5y ago
Everyone using FF should do themselves a favor and install Tree Style Tabs[0] and hide the top tabs in userChrome.css 0: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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Ultrahot 'superionic' ice is a new state of matter(livescience.com)
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Should California’s last nuclear power plant stay open?(sandiegouniontribune.com)
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All adults can get a Covid vaccine booster in CA, not just those CDC listed(npr.org)
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Diamond delivers long-sought mineral from the deep Earth(nature.com)
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Why does the Mandelbrot set appear when I use Newton's method(math.stackexchange.com)
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Rivian prices IPO at $78 a share, valuing electric vehicle company at $66.5B(cnbc.com)
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World Series: The sports data pioneer who spotted baseball's big fix of 1919(bbc.co.uk)
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by bryan0 5y ago
Ok this is their theory for how it senses: > Physarum is widely known to grow in a pulsatile manner, which consists of a forward growth phase and a reverse streaming phase during which the cytoplasm is retracted away from the growth regi
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by bryan0 5y ago
> In much the same way that a blindfolded person on a trampoline can sense if other people are on it, TRP channels help the slime mold detect faraway objects. This is as detailed a description as the article gives in how they detect obje
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San Francisco Safeway cuts hours, allegedly due to 'off the charts' theft(sfgate.com)
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The Views That Made Me Persona Non Grata at MIT(wsj.com)
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The first report of asexual reproduction in California condors(apnews.com)
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Meta Plans to Reverse Controversial Facebook Account Requirement for Oculus(roadtovr.com)
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Popular NPM library hijacked to install password-stealers, miners(bleepingcomputer.com)
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by bryan0 5y ago
Since I moved out of SF I’ve wondered if there will ever be some public epiphany that with their well-intentioned policies they’ve reinforced what they most wanted to destroy: a society of the haves and have-nots.
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Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda(youtube.com)
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by bryan0 5y ago
> Does the automation have conscious experiences? yes. Consciousness does not need to be a binary phenomenon, there are certainly different levels of consciousness. > Take a simulation of a city populated with characters. Do those cha
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by bryan0 5y ago
> We perform very complex intellectual tasks completely subconsciously all the time, without any conscious awareness that we're doing them I think the problem with this line of reasoning is that it implies consciousness is binary. T
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by bryan0 5y ago
why not just link to the actual article[0]? axios is not really adding anything here. 0: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-poised-for-record-quarter...
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100M-year old crab trapped in amber rewrites ancient crustacean history(cnet.com)
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by bryan0 5y ago
> consciousness is what allows you to experience things rather than being a mindless automaton. Well this is certainly a better definition IMO, however, what does a "mindless automaton" mean? If the automaton is intelligent the
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by bryan0 5y ago
Ok thanks. Yeah I think that Turing came up with the best solution for detecting intelligence. If it passes that test then either the system is truly intelligent or a “zombie” which only appears intelligent. As mentioned in some other repli
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by bryan0 5y ago
> We get a more elegant situation if we suppose that consciousness is a necessary side effect of creatures like us. Agreed. I never understood the zombie distinction. It seems ridiculous that some thinking machines are “zombies” and some
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by bryan0 5y ago
Can you explain the difference?
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by bryan0 5y ago
I prefer any definition that is clear and most everyone can agree on. A long incomplete list of properties is not ideal
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by bryan0 5y ago
This is basically the Chinese Room argument and the answer is: yes, the system as a whole is conscious.

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