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by dilap 4y ago
> Consciousness does influence the universe... I'm not sure I'm following the argument. Let me phrase it this way: can you devise an experiment which will determine if a given entity is conscious? > I believe someone called
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by dilap 4y ago
I am trying the reconcile the feeling of free-will we experience with its evident absence, per the theory. (Of course, you could also just say the feeling is an illusion.) I don't know if you can ever answer it one way or the other,
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by dilap 4y ago
Could free will be explained as super-physical phenomena that "haunts" the physical world, w/ choice manifest as which of the branching many worlds' paths consciousness "chooses" to experience? E.g., I am in s
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by dilap 4y ago
I've been looking at real-estate in Austin recently -- all those tiny 1950s houses are still around, and they are not cheap! So I don't think the main causal factor is everyone living in 3000 square foot McMansions. Plus, technolo
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by dilap 4y ago
Thanks! What you say makes a lot of sense to me. (And for my part, I already feel a ridiculous amount of bond/attachment/love, just feeling the little guy/girl squirming around in there!)
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by dilap 4y ago
Very interesting; thx!
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by dilap 4y ago
"Do no work and be with your kid" is probably a rarity, but the impression I have is that in traditional indigenous cultures you could do work around your home or village, in a rich social environment of other women and mothers, w
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by dilap 4y ago
Thanks!
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by dilap 4y ago
No disagreement about any of those things. I would just add: It should be easy for women who wish to be with their babies and breast-feed them to do so. It should also be easy for dads! BTW, I'm about two weeks out from becoming a fa
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by dilap 4y ago
Without a doubt, a baby can be formula-fed and thrive. It also seems certain that there are advantages to being breast-fed. Exactly how strong these are is hard to stay -- as far as I know, all the research is observational, and so it becom
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by dilap 4y ago
We could go even further: You don't need the mother at all; you can always just raise the baby on formula. But that doesn't change that the mother-child bond is a unique and special thing, and that there are real benefits to bre
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by dilap 4y ago
Pumping isn't a full replacement for breast-feeding, though -- there's bonding that takes place during breast-feeding, there's antibody and bacterial exchange, and the milk produced actually changes throughout the day. Of cou
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by dilap 4y ago
If you're breastfeeding, it's gotta be the woman. And ideally, you are breastfeeding. Beyond that, most women strongly want to be with their babies. There was a NYT article a few years back about the boom of internet baby monito
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by dilap 4y ago
> or they have something they want to hide. Indeed. I recommend this interview with Jeffrey Sachs, who headed Lancet's commision to investigate Covid-19. https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2022/10/jeffrey-sach
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by dilap 4y ago
With just a little initiative, the whole city could be like the TL.
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by dilap 4y ago
On the face of it, this is true. Since most people enable iCloud backups of messages, which are not encrypted, you should basically think of iMessage as unencrypted, unless you are very sure both you and the person you are messaging do no
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by dilap 4y ago
It's hard for me to see a scenario where we reduce carbon emissions by any meaningful amount, TBH. That said, I'd rather just take my chances with the warming than engage in some mad-scientist cooling plans... Tangential, but I re
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by dilap 4y ago
Right call for js, but I think not for C# or Go, since as time goes on, the old behavior will be more and more of a relic, but you'll be paying the cost for having two syntaxes forever. (In js tho you have no alternative, because you d
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by dilap 4y ago
RIIR doesn't scare me at all -- as a user, my experience has been the rust rewrites are usually high-quality improvements over the original. Ripgrep is legendary! It is a huge accomplishment of Rust to enable the creation of better ver
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Not even elite colleges! UCs...
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by dilap 4y ago
My earliest memories are definitely just "memories of memories" at this point. Like I can remember-what-I-remembered more than the memory itself. Not so different from remembering a photo, I think.
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by dilap 4y ago
Nah, not at all -- just that the SAT is a reasonable test of ability that is in fact accessible to people w/o rich educational backgrounds. If you're born poor or somehow outside of the social mainstream, standardized testing is y
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by dilap 4y ago
It's kind of the opposite. I was a highschool dropout, highest level of math was basic algebra. I was able to change my mind about the whole education thing by buying a "prepare yourself for the SAT" book, studying it for a c
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by dilap 4y ago
It can create a vibe in certain situations, but overall I find it quite annoying and exhausting to have rude billboards constantly intruding in on my attention. I think a compromise I could live w/ would be you can have outdoor adverti
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by dilap 4y ago
Thanks, that's three people now; you've changed my mind on this point.
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by dilap 4y ago
Well, let's check back in a couple years. :-) To me, from the tone of the Ars article and browsing the CFI website, it seems clear they will not be satisfied with this minor victory.
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OK, perhaps the concern is not as absurd as I thought! (BTW, you should really ideally be carefully reading about any drug or treatment you are about to take :-)
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Akinetopsia is a very interesting neurological condition where a person cannot see motion. If they try to fill a cup with water, it will overflow. Somehow their brain can't process the idea that the water is rising; whatever level the
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I find this rather obnoxious; if I wish to purchase a purely placebo homepathic remedy, let me. The idea that I will be confused and think the homepathic remedies are actual drugs because they are in the same aisle is absurd. "Thanks f
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The Dream of Digital Homesteading (Urbit)(compactmag.com)
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