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by card_zero 5d ago
They don't think anything so silly as that. He's invisible, and if you have any further questions, he's ineffable.
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by card_zero 5d ago
There's also you can't get an ought from an is, the is–ought problem. The facts don't guide your action at all, not even in an imagined neutral unbiased dispassionate way. They can only change minds as part of an argument,
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by card_zero 5d ago
I disagree with what you say, so remind me later.
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by card_zero 5d ago
They might as well merge and become Chromicrapple.
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by card_zero 5d ago
That is a fictional objection raised by the Egyptian god Amun to the Egyptian god Thoth, who was supposed by the Egyptians to have invented music and writing, and was supposed by the Greeks to have invented absolutely everything else too,
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by card_zero 6d ago
I have also vaguely noticed that it started being called pollution sometime this century. "Huh, that's new", I thought. Not particularly surprising, though. Of course that timespan is almost 30 years, so my concept of recen
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by card_zero 6d ago
Unpredictable things happen routinely, therefore these specific unpredictable things will happen?
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by card_zero 6d ago
I haven't seen it, but the premise is that you have a second self who is trapped at work and wants to escape. That's really not the same thing, and misses the point of my drug scenario, which is that pain and (simple) suffering o
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by card_zero 6d ago
Oh yes, I daresay. I mean to include that sort of thing with "memories" anyway. The drug might not be physically possible in reality.
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by card_zero 6d ago
Premised on being utterly selfish and not caring about Linda. Leaving that aside, is this really a great and clever question? In version 2, your minds are swapped, so it's the same question. The difference is that you have been &quot
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by card_zero 6d ago
Yes, I am! Why isn't that fine? Not "right", you say. Bear in mind that the "version of me" is me, and cognitively is in agreement that this is fine. Instinctively I would very much not think it was fine while u
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by card_zero 6d ago
No, there's a difference, in that my clone would get PTSD or some similar trauma as a result, which is a waste of a large part of that clone's life. In the version where I'm drugged into forgetfulness, I've only wasted a
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by card_zero 6d ago
Got to be philosophical about it all.
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by card_zero 6d ago
You know, if there was a hypnotic drug such that I could be sure I'd remember nothing (and many, many similar caveats), I'd volunteer to be caused all kinds of pain, because I don't see why I should care. The only moral angle
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by card_zero 6d ago
Well that would depend exactly what we're talking about. "Cognitive capabilities", wasn't it? Maybe exclude babies but include drunks, if you like. I don't know who really belongs on the list, which is kind of the p
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by card_zero 6d ago
Ha, OK. The darts seem designed to separate from the fletched part of the shaft, like a two-stage rocket, so the pun sounded confusingly truthful, as in they're not quite hafted.
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by card_zero 6d ago
Babies, the comatose, people currently asleep ... this one is something about universal human rights, a protection against anybody appointing themselves judge and trying to micromanage who is or isn't an equal, which only causes troubl
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by card_zero 6d ago
What do you mean, can't haft and yeet too, is that about weight?
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by card_zero 6d ago
No, of course I haven't been doing that, and it's going to be a while before I would have collected a representative sample anyway, if I had been.
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by card_zero 6d ago
Something similar happened to Angband, when I went back to it recently it had been given an overhaul that included making the game shorter. So I went back to v3.4.1.
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by card_zero 6d ago
Yes! Which leads into strange territory, because we can say that attachment is not entirely rational, but is influenced by genes pointing us toward more successful reproduction, without concern for creating knowledge. But then this environm
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by card_zero 6d ago
You could have an alternative explanation: large animals invest lots of food energy in their offspring, and so the slimmest chance that a calf might not be dead is worth lots of effort. Say one in a thousand actually revive. Here's an
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by card_zero 6d ago
Do whales grieve?
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by card_zero 6d ago
... within a system formal logic.
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by card_zero 6d ago
Do LLMs grieve?
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by card_zero 7d ago
That's logical, yes. If person A wants to read a summary (even a generated one) outlining the state of modern space dinosaur research, or whatever, and person B also wants the exact same thing, then person B should be happy to read the
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by card_zero 7d ago
There's knowledge in books, and it's ingested all the books, so it does hold knowledge. But I guess that's not how you mean it.
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by card_zero 7d ago
But of course with the gen-AI stuff you are getting put in touch with the real ideas of real artists (e.g. Miyazaki), it's just that they've been anonymized and put through a blender.
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by card_zero 7d ago
> I don’t think there are many of these people I think there are lots of people who value art for the ideas of the artist. There are also lots of people who think that they value something like quality of brushstrokes, and these are
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by card_zero 7d ago
Like how if you bought a box of chocolates, and it was actually filled with rocks, you wouldn't dislike it until you found out. Immediate glamor followed by gradual disappointment is AI output all over.

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