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by chr1 2y ago
Passing down skills and ideas needed for the mission to survive and succeed over multiple generations is a very hard task. A group of skilled and motivated people who spend a small percentage of their lives on a ship, is going to be very di
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by chr1 2y ago
Well, if people live for really long time like 10000, it would become much easier to travel to other stars with technology that we already have, so there will be plenty of "ecological niche to live in".
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by chr1 2y ago
But this time it is a testable mathematical theory. If it turns out that it is possible to find a Turing machines that behave like humans, we will be in position of a god to them, outside of their time and space, able to control everything
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by chr1 2y ago
Depending on complexity of the pattern Hashlife may be unable to speed up the computation and even may turn out to be slower than the simple implementation. The most annoying thing about Permutation City is that it intentionally disregards
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by chr1 2y ago
That's a valid wish, but there is already a large number of people in America who oppose American values. So in principle there is no difference whether their number will grow by immigration, high birthrate, indoctrination of other pe
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by chr1 2y ago
How many people who win lottery tickets become wealthy? Most of them squander the money they win, so your point about simply being lucky is not true. As for your question lottery winner having the power proportional to his money, is much be
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by chr1 2y ago
> The fact that 3 years in we are still collaborating with Russia on the ISS and in other scientific programs is deeply disturbing. Do you think Putin cares about scientific programs enough to stop killing people? All the "we won&#x
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by chr1 2y ago
Interpretation of QM does not "reproduce results by assumption", it provides a computational scheme for obtaining equations of QM. P-zombie argument on the other hand does not produce anything.
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by chr1 2y ago
Interpretations of quantum mechanics are testable, they have to produce quantum mechanics, which puts a very narrow constraint on possible theories. The equivalent of p-zombie hypothesis with quantum mechanics would be if one said that part
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by chr1 2y ago
Could you bring any example where non-testable hypothesis have mattered in science, or even have been proposed? As far as i can tell the p-zombie argument is a variant 2=3 "proofs" with hidden division by 0. People claim as truth
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by chr1 2y ago
The problem with p-zombie argument is that it is completely inconsequential. It is like if i say there is some property let's call it phi-factor, i am certain i have it, some people have it too, and some do not, but there is absolutely
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by chr1 2y ago
How is this related to the 2nd point in OP's comment? The whole Chinese room argument is based merely on a misinterpretation of computentionalist/physicalist argument. Of course the computer or person who executes the program does
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by chr1 2y ago
What is Chalmers saying then? As i understand he is saying that there can be a world where conciousness does not exist, but all the possible physical experiments cannot distinguish between that world and our world. But that simply means the
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by chr1 2y ago
Because the sufferer is back exactly at the state before suffering, without even a recollection of suffering. And all the suffering was merely number multiplication.
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by chr1 2y ago
> "you can't learn what it is like to see colors from any physics book." Why is it an argument against materialism? To know what it is like to see colors you need to put your brain in a state in which other people's b
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by chr1 2y ago
> If the aforementioned stress is the root cause of the physical consequences, then that is materialism-inconsistent. E.g. stress increases production of certain hormones, raises blood pressure etc., which over time can be harmful. How i
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by chr1 2y ago
Why is stress contributing to diseases materialism-inconsistent? In all cases it has a physical mechanism through which the disease is caused. > Idealism, materialism, dualism, etc. concern theory of mind Idealism/dualism used to be
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by chr1 2y ago
Since you are exactly the molecular machine, nothing more and nothing less, saying "the initial state of my molecular machine made me do it" is same as saying "the initial state of my self made me do it". So it does not
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by chr1 2y ago
We are molecular machines and although the outcome is predetermined, the only way to find out the outcome, is for the machine itself to follow through its course. So this is exactly opposite of "devil made me do it" because you do
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by chr1 2y ago
Could you please help me to find a strongman interpretation of idealism? The question i am primarily interested in, is: "whether there exists a Turing machine, output of which is indistinguishable from behavior of a human". This i
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by chr1 2y ago
"Useful" were the things that have allowed us to create new technologies: from internet to medicine to rockets. Belief in idealism not only did not produce anything, it did not even make any measurable impact. Parts of the work of
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by chr1 2y ago
> What exactly has it yielded? All of the physics and the sciences downstream of it came out of ancient Greek idea of materialism, the idea that things happen not because of wishes of sapient entities like gods or spirits, but because of
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by chr1 2y ago
Well, idealism simply says that consciousness/humans cannot be understood or explained via simpler concepts. That's the first thing anyone would think of but it is not a useful theory in any way. The alternative theory was that e
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by chr1 2y ago
If we abuse a dog we have no way to restore it to its previous state. With computer programs we have a perfect time machine, so any thing that one may call "horrible" can be done and then undone without any moral consequences. Thi
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by chr1 2y ago
AI generating realistic nude images from normal images will further these things. Because then there will be nudes for everyone, it will be impossible to prove what is real and what is fake, and therefore pointlessness of chasing of 'i
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by chr1 3y ago
The story explicitly tells us that the virus was picked up by accident. But even if we discard that part and assume it was done intentionally by Edgar, the story is not logical, because the other choice of reverting climate change gives Edg
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by chr1 3y ago
The way this "game" presents its "moral" without even trying to logically justify it is simply offensive. The "bad" ending is not in any way connected to the project, with same success it could say you do nothi
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by chr1 3y ago
Before capitalism all of the world was "Third world". And the equity you get without capitalism is everybody being equally poor. And then millions die, like in every attempt to build communism in past century.
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by chr1 3y ago
When winning turning green numbers black makes it feel like you lost the game. Numbers should stay green until a new game is started.
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by chr1 3y ago
This is a very poor and inaccurate "translation". Papers from math and physics are hard to understand not because of specific choice of "terms and notation" but because of actual concepts they are based on. Terms and not

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