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by dbspin 2y ago
Slight tangent, but it's my intuition that some version of this is the end game for media. Completely compelling, AI created, individually attuned videos generated in or near real time that appeal so well to the individual (adult) view
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The hard problem of consciousness is hard for a reason. There's no obvious way to link the experience all of us (solipsism aside) are having at each and every moment with the mechanism that generates it. It's a category error to c
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Your diet advice is great for people who don't have a food intolerance. I'm glad it worked well for you. As someone who has pretty serious - immediate diarrhoea, stomach pain etc - responses to certain foods (dairy, gluten, some a
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I wonder if it's possible that you have the telescope the wrong way around? People leading more fulfilling and rewarding lives is the point of the economy, not the reverse.
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Yeah - as someone born in 1979, I find repetitions of the idea that global warming / climate change only came into public awareness 'in the last 15 to 20 years' on TV news and in documentaries deeply troubling. Global warming
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This is exactly how the old OPML browsers used to work back in the web 2.0 era. Always thought it was a neat interface, although I'd keep content in one pane, scrollable back to previous windows.
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I share your skepticism that rules can contain these technologies. But "society to learn how to behave in this new environment" underplays how continuous souveillance [1] limits our individual liberty. So much of our freedom in pu
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Yeah, it's really striking how hard it is to decipher what the product is here. Presumably there's a community somewhere that's been following the development of whatever OS or piece of single function hardware it is. I can s
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> as millions of people stop doing productive work to live easy lives Or alternately, millions of people will cease busy work which adds no value - and engage in genuinely productive tasks instead. Caring for their families, locally grow
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Not sure why this is being downvoted - anyone who has worked at a venture backed startup will find at least aspects of your argument to match their experience. The game at companies that have achieved high valuations prior to IPO is to get
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Existential horror of this whole conversation aside, this is a beautifully written comment. I'd read your novel, but you don't seem to have one, so I'll have to settle for following you on Mastodon.
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If you're skeptical about whether governance is required for markets to function, launch your next startup on the darkweb or in a failed state. I fail to see how one could imagine any kind of healthy market operating without basic gove
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I agree that a 'corporate death penalty' would be enormously open to abuse, sector rivals would be even more incentivised to industrial espionage for one thing... But 'a distraction from fines'? Fines do nothing to help
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It means that markets rely on the rule of law. From monopoly regulation to the prohibition on outright theft, markets literally cannot exist without governance.
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I think you're missing that this is as much a social technology as a computing technology. Immediate analogy would be stuff like the 'open space' model adopted from anarchist organising into design thinking. Which unfortunate
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Patchblocks used to exist (and have a very cool party house in Belfast) - but looks like their IP was acquired http://patchblocks.com/page2.html Roli Blocks is also somewhat similar https://midi.org/roli-blo
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Well, there's a source if not a market - LLMs. https://www.proofnews.org/apple-nvidia-anthropic-used-thousa...
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I'd go further than this - consciousness only exists in social context. Or in a dynamic if you prefer. Children raised alone, or suffering extreme neglect (e.g.: infamous Genie case) suffer enormous cognitive impairments, including lan
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Obviously we're all introspecting here - but my guess is that there's some kind of cross talk in aphantasic brains between the conscious narrating semantic brain and the visual module. Such that default mode visualisation is impai
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Worth noting that aphantasia doesn't necessarily extend to dreams. Anecdotally - I have pretty severe aphantasia (I can conjure milisecond glimpses of barely tangible imagery that I can't quite perceive before it's gone - but
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Em... Harry Parch was living off Guggenheim and Carnegie grants at the start of the great depression. He was also celebrated and known in New York early in his career (while working menial jobs). He absolutely didn't rise from obscurit
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I'm genuinely curious - how could having children possibly be a way out of poverty? Unless you're making the assumption that they'll be in an economically better position than you and 'take care of you in your retirement
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> so if you make $63k and live like you make $35k, you should be able to save at least $10k a year or more. You're discounting tax. At least in Ireland, as a PAYE worker (employee) your take home would be 32,228. Given rent, food an
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Citation needed, I don't think I've ever seen a historian make the argument that the determining factor in civilisational conflict was birth rates. Guns, germs, steel, and various other resources. Access to ruminants and horses, s
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"It's entirely true because it's easy to prove that any normal decently paid occupation with thrifty savings will result in rich, at least by a normal standard." The phrase 'normal decently paid' is doing a lot
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It's still trivial to block these though with a combination of uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock. Despite Google's ongoing efforts to make this impossible.
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Is this true though? Leaving aside those with inherited wealth. If you imagine in purely competitive business situation, with poor enforcement of blue collar crime prosecution globally - seems likely the least ethical competitors would win
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>I've been legit hacked, but I don't have enough fingers to count all the times ?>that software bugs did things like get me stranded, cut me off from my finances, >almost get me killed on the road, and so forth. I hesitat
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This is no more likely than malthusian predictions of over population leading to mass starvation. It turns out that human populations self regulate when a basic level of needs are met.
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Looks amazing, is there anything similar available for video? The official creative commons search tool ( https://search.creativecommons.org/ ) is pretty poor.

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