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by elevaet 2y ago
> It doesn't matter how potent it is if nobody wants to take it. Nobody? I can't agree, lots of people want to, and do "take" exercise. Most of my friends are super active and they look good and feel good and are livi
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by elevaet 2y ago
The article said Latin, but I don't know what script that is. It looks like it was written right-to-left so maybe it's Latin written in Hebrew script? I'm not even sure if that was a thing.
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by elevaet 2y ago
Hah fair enough, point taken!
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by elevaet 2y ago
It was pretty low quality compared to later Tintin books, and a lot more racist. No surprise though considering the era, and that this was during the midst of the Belgian occupation of the Congo.
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by elevaet 2y ago
I learned more (dubious) Roman history from Asterix than all other sources combined
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by elevaet 2y ago
My Mom escaped from some suffering by accessing MAID when the pain and suffering from her terminal cancer became too much for her to bear. She died in her own home surrounded by beloved family and friends, on her own terms. I'm gratefu
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by elevaet 2y ago
To be blunt, the null hypothesis is that consciousness is not required for AGI. One example of a correlation between AGI and consciousness without any theory (let alone a testable theory) for why there would be causation does not constitute
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by elevaet 2y ago
It's also true that the only known examples of general intelligence are embodied in meat machines. Is this a prerequisite for AGI? Again, we don't know. I think probably not, but some people think it is, and the debate is unresolv
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by elevaet 2y ago
> It's equally easy to imagine a machine that can't be generally intelligent because it can't experience. I agree with this. I was just pointing out that the parent comment: >I post this because I think the current neur
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by elevaet 2y ago
I think it's a mistake to conflate consciousness with AGI and vice-versa. It's entirely possible that you can have AGI without anyone being "home" and conversely it's also possible that there is a subjective experie
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by elevaet 2y ago
You can do it even cheaper with some painter's tape! For the mic, perhaps you could disable it by plugging in an unconnected trrs plug into the audio jack. I'm not sure how low level the switching of the microphone source is when
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by elevaet 2y ago
For better or for worse, some people who can afford otherwise do piracy, out of protest. For example several people I know personally buy music exclusively on bandcamp. If it's not on there, they pirate it. No streaming, no iTunes etc.
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by elevaet 2y ago
> People are crazy for vinyl, but CDs are just _so_ convenient. I feel like I might be punished for stepping out of line here but CDs sound better than vinyl too.
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by elevaet 2y ago
Agreed. Everyone here knows how to use chatgpt. We come here for a different way to share, learn and interact.
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by elevaet 2y ago
This reminds me of the font Roland used on their 80s synth service manual schematics. Maybe it's the same?
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by elevaet 2y ago
What's the typical efficiency of a nuclear power plant? i.e. what fraction of the energy from the fission reaction gets converted into electricity?
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by elevaet 2y ago
> On August 21, 1945, less than a week after Japan notified the US that it would accept the terms of the Potsdam Declaration, physicist Harry Daghlian was performing an experiment when he accidentally dropped a piece of “tamper” material
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by elevaet 2y ago
They put the most favoured (by entry times or heat results) swimmers in the center lanes, slower ones out from there. You've probably noticed that you usually see the race leaders in the middle, and you hardly ever see the edges winnin
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by elevaet 2y ago
This is basically true wrt the 1-sub lysergamide series (1p-lsd 1cp-lsd 1d-lsd 1v-lsd ald-52 etc) but many other lysergamides are quite distinct: AL-LAD ETH-LAD MiPLA etc. And then of course there are the lysergamides that are used to treat
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by elevaet 2y ago
There's a good arguement that backgammon and bridge are better training for real life because of the mixture of strategy and randomness.
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by elevaet 2y ago
It's that triple-whammy plus the comfort of consuming the spell that Starbucks has woven for their customers. I think for a lot of people buying a "special" coffee/thing at Starbucks squeezes that "I'm treating
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by elevaet 2y ago
This was a great book. It seems less well-known in the HN-sphere than Seeing Like A State, but it's at least as good IMHO. It really changed my mental model of the dynamics of early states and "barbarians", and how agricultur
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by elevaet 2y ago
You are absolutely insane. Bravo!
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by elevaet 2y ago
No, butterfly tea: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2c/ac/2c/2cac2c42209b54ab9daa... If you add an acid to it (like lemon or lime) it turns to the beautiful purple colour you see on the right. But I think
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by elevaet 2y ago
> So you should view this fleeting world— > A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, > A flash of lightening in a summer cloud, > A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. row row row your boat gently down the stream merrily merri
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by elevaet 2y ago
They make an amazing brilliant tea!
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by elevaet 2y ago
That's called bullshit.
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by elevaet 2y ago
This same problem exists in other games, like Real Life, Capitalism, and Urban Living in the 21st Century.
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by elevaet 2y ago
It might be a promotional flex. Here we are talking about Mitsubishi.
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