captainclam

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by captainclam 5y ago
I'm going to front-load this by stating that I 100% agree that representation matters, and absolutely welcome a diversity of perspectives in media. Furthermore, I do believe that much criticism of "woke" media is a knee-jerk
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by captainclam 5y ago
"That last 5% are not going to handle psychedelics well." The way this comment is written makes it sound as if 100% of people will be using psychedelics after decriminalization goes into effect.
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by captainclam 5y ago
Question for the experts: Is it possible that GANs will be used for rendering video game environments in the near-ish future? This has been one of my private predictions with respect to upcoming tech, but I'd love to know if people are
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by captainclam 5y ago
... and people continue to use the platform I imagine that the number of people who even hear or read about these privacy leaks represent a minuscule fraction of the user base. And of those that are aware of these leaks, a small fraction
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by captainclam 6y ago
It sounds like you're suggesting that you are a "soul" that was "put" in a body. Try to see it from this perspective; your experience as an individual (soul) is a feature of the structure we call Homo sapiens. It&#x
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by captainclam 6y ago
Or the great filter. :/
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by captainclam 6y ago
"I think Alan's idea of OOP was something more fluid, more organic than this." I've heard a good deal about Alan Kay's dissent of the state of OOP, but I've never seen a concise summary of his vision or the pri
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by captainclam 6y ago
As far as my understanding goes, prions require contact with either the same or extremely similar proteins to have any affect, so they would require even greater biological similarity. Are their prion-like agents that work differently than
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by captainclam 6y ago
I'm not entirely convinced of this argument myself, that it's impossible for us to "truly" understand how brains work . However, I entirely agree with the sentiment: We don't necessarily understand brains now, but w
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by captainclam 6y ago
In some ways, of course, I agree, but as some other commenters have pointed out, this is essentially a "deepfake" of yourself...in principle there's no restriction on what one could use as their "avatar." As much wa
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by captainclam 6y ago
In some ways humans are simpler than the cells they are made off. Yeah, you may know how to drive a car, but can you synthesize DNA? I find it fascinating that complexity goes up, when you zoom into a human. And cells exhibit all these beh
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by captainclam 6y ago
Haha, as a Biochemistry PhD student, this is almost exactly how I will often break down biology to a layperson: DNA corresponds to proteins that are essentially just shapes bumping into other shapes, sometimes making new shapes and sometime