fluoridation

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by fluoridation 2mo ago
That's a different sense of "just like". Not "in the same manner", but "to the same extent".
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
Wouldn't a font that shuffled the codepoint-to-glyph assignments be more effective?
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
Someone has to accept that they're looking at the flattest pair of cheeks ever to interpret that as an ass.
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
It'd be a real copy of the simulated human, yes.
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
Eh. It would be better , yes. I still think it would suck.
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
>What you've created is a human. That's incorrect, for reasons I've already stated. Humans and simulated humans are not interchangeable. >If a system takes the same inputs and creates the same output it's the same
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
Bacteria are alive too, and I'm going to guess you don't claim we have a moral responsibility to them. And as I said, humans can feel empathy for things that are not alive. The capacity to feel empathy rests entirely on the empath
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
Sorry, I can't respond because I don't know which statement in particular you're disagreeing with. What I can say is that, unless you're using words in a surprising way, I agree with >If the simulation of electronic i
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
You're answering a different question, which is "why do humans empathize with non-humans?" Humans can empathize with inanimate objects and with fictional people. The question of the origin of empathy really has nothing to do
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
I think the question is valid. Why should a human have a moral responsibility towards non-humans, while a cat doesn't have a moral responsibility towards non-cats, just because the human is capable of making moral judgements? Is there
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
I just said it's not a given. It's not immediately obvious. EDIT: I prefer SOMA's take on it.
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
It's not the thing, because the thing is made of substance, not electronic impulses. No matter how hard you compute, you will never compute the simulation into a real, tangible object. The simulation and the real object are extremely,
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
If life is physics and physics is an algorithm, it doesn't follow that an algorithm reproducing the physics of life contains life, even if we grant that it actually reproduces it completely and perfectly. That's just confusing the
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
I've seen that too. I was so mad when I finally figured it out.
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
What does "suffering" mean? Define your boolean function, apply it to the state of the program, and you'll know if the program is currently suffering.
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
>the biggest problem has been granting patents for inventions that at least in retrospect seem non-novel or obvious. I don't agree that that's the biggest problem. I think the biggest problem is that patents are abused to stifl
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
Having people create new technology to avoid arbitrary legal hurdles instead of adopting existing and perfectly functional technology doesn't seem particularly efficient.
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
Is that a promotion, though?
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
>The submitted article is about how they've achieved results "They" meaning just Wisconsinites. The only political point I can find with a quick skim of the article is >“There are well-documented concerns about how this
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
What do you mean by "hotbed", then? Do you just mean, "there exists a party with that alignment?" What state is not a "hotbed of progressive politics" by this interpretation?
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
They are subsidizing the non-API use cases and overcharging on the API use cases.
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
On a similar note in terms of frustration, my bank ended up getting me to memorize my randomly-generated passwords twice because it blocked pasting. I guess it's to discourage writing them down in plaintext files, but I bet it just mak
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
With CD-Rs it was already possible in the mid '90s, if we're talking mass production. CD-Rs are a little more expensive to produce, but not much more so. A slight concern is that readers of the time might not have been able to rea
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
It's still not possible. You would need to make a unique master for every individual unit.
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
A reminder that CD-ROMs are pressed from glass masters, not burned like CD-Rs. I wonder if anyone has tried something like this with burned discs, though.
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
I'm reminded of that paradox from sci-fi that says that starting an interstellar journey as soon as the technology is capable of it is uneconomical, because the trip will take so long that newer technology will arrive at the destinat
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
It's not silly. If you're satisfied with seeing ads in a paid product then that's fine, but the other person clearly is not. Cancelling a service because it doesn't meet your expectations is perfectly reasonable. It does
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
You're seeing ads while paying because you're paying. If you stop paying you won't see ads while paying anymore. Why would you reward such behavior?
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
You can still sell snake oil that's purported to improve ECGs.
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by fluoridation 2mo ago
Yes, you can hurl insults at inanimate objects.

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