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by garyrob 10y ago
A link for that would be appreciated.
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by garyrob 10y ago
Anyone interested in this subject will probably want to see Grady Tower's essay, "The Outsiders". http://www.worlddreambank.org/O/OUTSIDRS.HTM . My IQ is just on the cusp of the level where these effects
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by garyrob 10y ago
My kids both went to CTY in the summers. Both loved it. But my older son literally experienced it as life-altering. He'd been kind of isolated in school, but the wonderful rapport he had with like-minded kids at CTY, and the support th
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by garyrob 10y ago
If there were an extremely large number of AI's making all those predictions publicly in advance, so many that one might randomly do that well, then the comment would be accurate. But that does not appear to be the case. There was abso
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by garyrob 10y ago
Not sure whether you were referring to an early Paul Simon song here: "He's so unhip when you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas / Whoever he was" http://genius.com/Simon-and-gar
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by garyrob 10y ago
Agreed, another +1 for Hurricane. A largely-overlooked absolute classic. And of course All Along the Watchtower!
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by garyrob 10y ago
I've read both. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, is very good, but Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is a transcendent and very useful classic if you are actively engaged in zazen practice.
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by garyrob 10y ago
Psychopaths actually have reduced activity in the orbital cortex of the brain, which can be objectively measured. Not sure if it's a feature of all true psychopaths, but it's apparently quite common. http://www.business
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by garyrob 10y ago
Thanks so much for posting those pictures. Amazing place! Tragic that they'll be tearing much of it down.
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by garyrob 10y ago
It's a little hard to understand how this ruling won't cause a certain degree of chaos. Can any hungry, homeless person now steal food from any store in Italy without repercussion? Certainly as a matter of compassion, this ruling
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by garyrob 10y ago
I just checked what you're saying here: https://news.ycombinator.com . The amount of calories you need to maintain weight does go up enormously as you weight more. And I didn't know that while reading the article, so I
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by garyrob 10y ago
You are supplying potentially very interesting information... could you please point to sources?
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by garyrob 10y ago
From the article: "If a hypothetical 200-pound man added 60 minutes of medium intensity running four days per week while keeping his calorie intake the same, and he did this for 30 days, he'd lose five pounds. 'If this person
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by garyrob 11y ago
"I have no idea who's in charge now, but whoever it is has no idea what they're doing." Isn't it Jonny Ives? He has a very sensitive eye for physical design. But he may know, or care, nothing about good software des
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by garyrob 11y ago
I agree. I won't write a list of the problems in detail, but I've been a Mac user since the 80's because I've always preferred Apple's elegant design and ease of use. But lately, it's hard to figure out how to
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by garyrob 11y ago
For me, doing zazen (mindfulness-like meditation in the Zen tradition), simple written instructions and even the very best books were not enough. I needed a teacher to help me through some obstacles to meditation.
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by garyrob 11y ago
"I don't necessarily disagree with that, but your argument is nothing more than an appeal to believe in the existence of such properties based on how you yourself feel when you look at something yellow. I don't find that very
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by garyrob 11y ago
"And how do you know that a human experienced anything while writing a "heartfelt-seeming" post?" Because I wrote that original post, and I had experiences while writing it. I know that from direct observation and I don&
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by garyrob 11y ago
OK, good, so we have in common that we both believe qualia exist. I didn't get that from your preceding posts. "What we shouldn't do, is say humans have qualia and jump to the conclusion that machines can't have qualia,
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by garyrob 11y ago
"So if you make that experience a condition for calling another being intelligent, you are effectively saying that nothing but yourself can ever be intelligent." I think you are confusing the principles of whether an observer can
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by garyrob 11y ago
"Algorithms that can write heartfelt posts like yours will be developed one day." I don't find it hard to assume that algorithms will one day be able to write posts that an observer may classify as seeming to be heartfelt. Bu
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by garyrob 11y ago
"They can be interesting to think about, but without any evidence for them there isn't any reason to give them particular consideration. (I am including rational, mathematical, or logical arguments based on experimental evidence a
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by garyrob 11y ago
"How do you know other humans can truly experience "yellowness"? What if we're all just pretending and you're the only one?" To me, that's kind of a silly question. Yes, it might be true. Of course, it mig
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by garyrob 11y ago
Yes. I'm not extremely well-read in the literature but I have read some of it. I'm aware of the term "qualia" but was trying to use the most direct, simple possible language to communicate.
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by garyrob 11y ago
For me, the question addressed by the article isn't even the interesting one. The author talks about "intelligence" as in how we process environmental information and perform reasoning tasks. From that perspective, it does se
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by garyrob 11y ago
This question, and some of the responses give me the thought: Maybe there's room for a site that allows people to post the fact that they are at a stage in their career that they're willing to work for free. They'd include us
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by garyrob 12y ago
Thanks for your review. One question. You say: "Difficulty: MMDS is a CS graduate level course (CS246) from Stanford." But the post itself says: "The book, like the course, is designed at the undergraduate computer science le
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by garyrob 12y ago
First, I know git, and not mercurial. Second, I don't think there is a steep learning curve for the subset included in my post. Third, I think git has enough momentum that it makes sense for beginning programmers to focus on it. I susp
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by garyrob 12y ago
My philosophy is that when you use the command line, a) You learn the tool better, and b) wherever you are where there's git, you can use it. No need to install anything else. I had that philosophy back when I used Subversion, and I th
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by garyrob 12y ago
I agree with you -- and it's actually already mentioned, in the little section at the end, "One more thing – optional – may add another minute"

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