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by david_w 6y ago
Man I do not believe this. The restaurant and bar industry cater to the reckless youth segment. Seeing "nothing bad happened" to people you know who are less risk-averse than you is enough to coax people back into herding into bar
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by david_w 6y ago
But that is OK because that money goes elsewhere in the economy. No?
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by david_w 6y ago
He leaves out "developing a treatment" as an option. Why?
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by david_w 6y ago
From the article: "The first is that it overlooks the negative impacts on consumer sentiment and spending, which are likely to persist for many months, if not years. " Yeah, right. Citation needed. My to-buy list of pent-up demand
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by david_w 6y ago
It is somewhat, yes. Or I could cause gradual cell death in someone's brain. Same idea.
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by david_w 6y ago
ianmerrick: I never understand this. How is the fact of experience in any way debateable or something which people disagree on? I am not asking about the epistemological details which appear to be a prerequisite to experiences we have, neur
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by david_w 6y ago
hackinthebochs: Your point seems to be that a thing has to exist- have some ontological status, to have thoughts at all, even if that "thing" is only itself a thought or, more vaguely, a temporary convergence of "something
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by david_w 6y ago
My replies to each of your comments, in order: panpsychism or panexperientialism can't be right because they're not weird enough- to paraphrase Bohr. Would it surprise anyone to find out that, in our exploration of the brain we co
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by david_w 6y ago
goatlover said: "only the qualities of perception which are objective exist," If you change "objective" to "scientifically validated" you have defined a position known as "ontological positivism", and
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by david_w 6y ago
It is what Dennett thinks. Actually, it's what Dennett thinks he thinks, because that idea of Dennett's is inherently non-sensical; it is self-contradictory. Here's why. To explain qualia as a "trick" is to void the
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by david_w 6y ago
Never take the arguments of a side from their opponent's mouths. The arguments I offered have nothing to do with any of the three he claims they all boil down to. If you think I made one of these three, please tell me which one so I ca
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by david_w 6y ago
No literate scientifically minded person disputes your point, but it doesn't address my point. My point is this- qualia as a phenomena exists. Even if I think a red thing is blue, I am still experiencing some color and the experiencin
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by david_w 6y ago
naasking, as I see it, Dennett (in Consciouness Explained) engages in a sleight of hand. He redefines consciouness as "a bunch of distinct phenomena that gets muddle together", but that doesn't touch the mystery of qualia,
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by david_w 6y ago
Just to toss off one more worthwhile idea to you since it seems like you're interested in this topic. p-zombies is not the most challenging scenario strong-AI deniers are likely to face. Brain cell replacement is. With p-zombies you h
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by david_w 6y ago
"The very concept of p-zombies illustrates this a priori refusal to admit any possible evidence whatsoever of consciousness. Another person could simply decide that I am in fact a p-zombie and lock themselves in a closed system of tho
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by david_w 6y ago
The brain is the most complicated structure in the known universe. The probes currently available to science- fMRI and GSR - are both gross measures of cortical electrical activity. They're enough to start to explore apparent structur
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by david_w 7y ago
No, no we haven't. A police state is a one-party state whose domination is maintained through the application of despotic force against the civilian population. We, on the other hand, are experiencing a once-in-a-century, world-wide, c
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by david_w 7y ago
Second this also. Also enjoyed Will To Power as a kind of well of "things well said, which make you think, " even if they're not strictly correct. Bertrand Russell wrote a lot of very accessible Western philosophy overview o
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by david_w 7y ago
"we talk more about the good stuff than about the bad stuff," 20:1 minimum good to bad. Minimum. Even one "bad" a week may just be too much. Also, limit the relative number of times you approach with something that &quot
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by david_w 7y ago
Each kit is designed to support a family of 4 for 1 month. That's some freaking "kit" !!!
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by david_w 7y ago
Sheldon Axler's acclaimed "Linear Algebra Done Right" Seconded. Highly recommended.
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by david_w 7y ago
Right. Conspiracies happen all the time because there are plans, which if understood by those upon whom the planners wish to enact them, would be rejected by their targets. That describes most plans people have. So the planners deceive and
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by david_w 7y ago
"What's amusing to be is how anyone can look at the incompetence of governments across the world, and conclude they'd be capable of any kind of organized conspiracy against the general population." Tell that to the Jews
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by david_w 7y ago
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world, Sweden puts into practice what they only speculate about: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/04/covid-19-and-swedis...
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by david_w 7y ago
The phenomena you're refering to is real. I acknowledge that this set of things exist. There also exists a set of regulations and administrative agency issued laws which are fundamentally political- coersive towards a political or soc
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by david_w 7y ago
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by david_w 7y ago
"JS makes Google Docs, Slack, and a thousand other applications .." ...I never use. Take all the JS on all the webpages and throw away every page to which it's not essential. Call the remainder set A. From set A, throw away e
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by david_w 7y ago
Everyone should stop writing webpages which require javascript. Javascript is a security nightmare responsible for the overhelming majority of web-based CVEs . Javscript's contributes mostly fluff to the vast majority of webpages. What
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by david_w 7y ago
My old lady thanked me for crossing the street as she was proceeding south and me north. I pumped both fists in the air and exclaimed "we're not dead yet!" and she laughed. You live in a big city perhaps.
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by david_w 7y ago
3M was shipping masks overseas until yesterday. Some people were buying out places like HomeDepot and Costco and selling them at huge markup. It's not "their" fault these independent agents behave this way. Culpability can be

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