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by burrows 4y ago
Then you are arguing that these surveys would abridge free speech?
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by burrows 4y ago
The first amendment places limits on the conditions that a state government can attach to university funding?
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by burrows 4y ago
The state (thru taxes) is funding the universities, right? Speaking for myself, if I was funding a university I would do things to encourage intellectual diversity. I’m more sympathetic to the more general view that education is not the bu
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by burrows 4y ago
The taunting tone of the article strikes me as un-empirical in some sense. If the thing sucks and no one likes it, then it sucks and no one likes it.
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by burrows 4y ago
Maybe. Once a month or so someone will tell me about a tunneling or multi world QM in a way that I assume is completely wrong.
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by burrows 4y ago
> This sounds a bit “fuck it, why bother trying to make anything better, something bad will always happen”. I agree.
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by burrows 4y ago
I don’t understand “asking a fish a question”. But maybe the question you are proposing is the following, “Is it possible to identify a sensation that is always present?”. Maybe this question is coherent? I’m not sure. Suppose it isn’t pos
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by burrows 4y ago
I think the real problem is pretending that the phrase “what it feels like to be something” is going to act like a key in my dict of feelings. A: You know, the feeling of what it is like to be something. B: sits quietly, looks at ceiling
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by burrows 4y ago
Let’s play a language game where we use language in a representative way. Specifically the language can only represent parts of sense-impressions. Where is consciousness in one of my sense-impressions? Tell me a procedure that will allow m
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by burrows 4y ago
What does it even mean to say that vim is 30 years old? The vim program I use is compiled from source code that is completely different from the vim people used 5 or 10 or 20 years ago.
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by burrows 4y ago
How are you defining “bad idea”? Professor sent out the grad students. Some of them didn’t come back (died?). Those are all the facts. Any pontificating about whether it is Good or Bad is just nonsense.
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by burrows 4y ago
> hoarding is owning way more than you need to the detriment of other people. So hoarding is owning plus the opinion of a Good Person such as Doxina that the owning is BAD because of its size. What if another Good Person thinks the owni
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by burrows 4y ago
> There are many things in this world which you can't observe with your senses but which nevertheless exist. Such as? > So "want" in this context would be about conflicting goals. Do tell, how can I observe a goal with
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by burrows 4y ago
> I think this is the difference in general this article glosses over. It's not about doing a little good vs doing a lot of good, it's about not wanting to do more than a certain amount of good, even if you could. What is the w
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by burrows 4y ago
> One reason, is that the lack of necessities in times of crisis is often due to hoarding. Is “hoarding” just a synonym for “owning”? > Second, they may have goods that can mean the difference between life and death. And they choose t
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by burrows 4y ago
Because I’ve seen “I wish I had worked less.” on a gravestone?
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by burrows 4y ago
Is this just you defining “average person” as someone chosen randomly?
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by burrows 4y ago
Damn dude, having seen anything this insightful since that last Malcolm Gladwell book. Thanks!
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by burrows 4y ago
“genuinely be wondering” Of course this account won’t participate coherently in this conversation.
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by burrows 4y ago
Yes, of course, ‘intentionality’, that clears everything up.
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by burrows 4y ago
> The "response" you select is a step in a plan to achieve a goal. Is it? Or are you just a bird trying to explain how flying works by dropping poop on my head? > If the plan is to utter a sentence, the way you generate the
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by burrows 4y ago
> I am trying to convey an idea that I believe with the goal of helping others to understand something. Irrefutable psuedo-facts.
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by burrows 4y ago
You’re a fabric of stitched together organic molecules that selects the best response to electromagnetic and auditory stimulus.
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by burrows 4y ago
Reads as satire to me. > To be sentient is to be aware of yourself in the world; LaMDA simply isn’t. Attempts to clarify the usage of “sentient” by invoking “awareness” and “the world”. Lol, right, now I get it. > What these systems
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by burrows 4y ago
> How do you think that people think? If there is nothing beyond the physical world, then the way people think is just physical interactions between microscopic particles. Those can be simulated by a powerful-enough computer. I believe n
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by burrows 4y ago
How do I determine if someone is an average citizen? And if there is no way for me to determine such, in what way is the phrase “average citizen” meaningful?
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by burrows 4y ago
Send them an email.
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by burrows 4y ago
> I think to some degree it's a mystery. One analogy that can partially get there, is consider if we built a really powerful computer and simulated an AI person and world inside (assuming there's no soul, this seems plausibly p
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by burrows 4y ago
There is no “Washington”. Just a bunch of other humans that Gates may or may not be aligned with.
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by burrows 4y ago
Right, God and his talking dirt.

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