elemesmedve

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   by elemesmedve 7mo ago

   What I'm getting at is the difference between subjective experience ("chills") and any theory describing it. ("Qualia", "no amount of simulating water will make anything wet", etc.) Although personally I p
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   by elemesmedve 7mo ago

   There are only "spiritual" "things". Where do you think "biology", "chemistry" and "synapses" come from?
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   by elemesmedve 3y ago

   I have a hunch that a lot of complaining about "light mode" is because people's monitors are too bright. I always make sure that my monitors are set so that a full white screen is comfortable to look at indefinitely. (With th
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   by elemesmedve 4y ago

   It was already the case that "90% of everything is garbage". Now with AI humanity can achieve 99.999%.
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   by elemesmedve 5y ago

   I think we cannot know anything at all, in the sense of completely understanding and knowing the "essence" of something. All our knowledge is instrumental. We have pragmatic theories and that's all we'll ever have. The e