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by bsza 3y ago
To a physicalist, the only way to interpret the question "why am I me and not someone else?" is "why is my physical body identical to my physical body and not identical to another physical body?". The framework simply do
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by bsza 3y ago
Perhaps it isn't well-defined, but I initially thought of it as something atomic and immutable (even in the face of brain damage), and now I no longer do.
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by bsza 3y ago
I was referring to the observing component itself being an illusion (as a split-brain patient seemingly has two of those). If that component is also a byproduct of physical processes, then your “observer” being attached to your body is self
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by bsza 3y ago
Experiments done on corpus callosotomy patients [0] give us some very interesting insights on how consciousness works. IMO, these experiments strongly point towards consciousness being mostly, if not entirely, an illusion created by the bra
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by bsza 3y ago
It is the simplest one-sentence argument for physicalism! If consciousness is a purely physical phenomenon, then it should be no surprise that everyone with a healthy brain has one, including you. If it isn’t, then what supernatural event
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by bsza 3y ago
> We don't know how consciousness comes into being Consciousness and life are completely different things. The article doesn't even mention consciousness. > Therefore it follows that ... wait for it ... life is not a special
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by bsza 3y ago
We might be bad at generating uniform, independent random numbers, but I submit that we’re still capable of generating some true randomness. Perhaps take the best of both worlds and mix in new entropy at each step? Something like, take
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by bsza 3y ago
So is sabotaging solutions that would make creative work of the same (or superior) quality more affordable. Your ability to produce expensive illustrations hinders my ability to produce cheap textbooks.
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by bsza 3y ago
7 times pi is very close to a whole number (~21.99), so the pattern will repeat with a very slight shift every 7 iterations.
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by bsza 3y ago
I’m pretty sure a lot of the discoloration comes from pigments/microplastics from the clothes rubbing against the wall. Look how dark the shoulders of these “ghosts” are. If it were just grease, you’d expect the head part to be darkest
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by bsza 3y ago
Whoever they choose won’t be able to save the film from the inevitable bad rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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by bsza 3y ago
> they admit they don't now why that happens No, they said “not sufficiently qualified to explain”. Which is not the same as not knowing, given that the same phenomenon can be explained on a lot of different levels depending on when
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by bsza 3y ago
"We need access to your microphone and camera to record your voice and translate it with your expressions." None of the videos shows any modified/lip-synced footage. There doesn't seem to be a reason for this thing to ne
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by bsza 3y ago
Article claims Dunning-Kruger is present in a population where everyone estimates their own skills based on dice rolls. Someone who estimates their own skills based on a dice roll is objectively crap at estimating their own skills. Dunning-
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by bsza 3y ago
This post and this comment section both feel to me like they’re from a parallel universe where no one knows that LOC isn’t a measure of quality but a cost . You want to keep it as low as possible while solving the problem at hand. As a m
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by bsza 3y ago
Looks like a Playdate ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playdate_(console) ).
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by bsza 3y ago
I think Carlin summarizes the effect pretty well, though this quote is not included in the article: "These poor people have been bullshitted by the system into believing that if you change the name of the condition, somehow you'll
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by bsza 3y ago
git fetch is basically just one string comparison if there are no new commits [0], I don’t think it’s as costly as you make it sound. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/44476803
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by bsza 3y ago
Which is incidentally also Albert Einstein’s birthday.
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by bsza 3y ago
You think meteors burn because of air friction, and your clothes were made by slaves. Future will judge you. (disclaimer: these are just educated guesses, I don't actually know you)
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by bsza 3y ago
Also, then "int @p" would read "integer at p" which is exactly what "int *p" means.
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by bsza 3y ago
You did write "break the basic conceptions of", not "change". To me, a line overlapping with the previous two lines seems to do exactly that. Also, the original suggestion was for Unicode to add ornamental combining ch
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by bsza 3y ago
> That would totally break the basic conceptions of line height and font size though So do [combining characters], yet they're valid Unicode.
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by bsza 3y ago
Probably for cloud migration. … I’ll see myself out.
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by bsza 3y ago
> if Godot devs stop working on it Then others can take it from where they left off, since it’s open source. As long as it has a user base, it is guaranteed to live on. Unlike Unreal.
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by bsza 3y ago
Sure, functionally OpenSCAD is just a subset of FreeCAD. The problem is, I can't really trust them if they also push out less robust or outright unreliable features alongside them. > Even after reverting to old parameters, the sketc
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by bsza 3y ago
Last time I checked (~3 years ago) FreeCAD was riddled with bugs. You make the slightest change to a constraint, everything that depends on it breaks. Degrees of freedom are calculated incorrectly. Multiple times I saved and reopened a file
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by bsza 3y ago
> We're not in charge of avenging the victims of anyone. The analogy doesn’t state who you are in this hypothetical situation. So what if in fact you are exactly the one in charge of that? Does your moral compass change depending on
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by bsza 3y ago
From the photo it looks like it either has already hatched or something ate it, as the article also seems to suggest: > It is over 10 centimeters (4 inches) in diameter and had a small tear near its base.
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by bsza 3y ago
That rant about the hertz is HN top material in and of itself.

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