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by gjm11 4y ago
> Retirement and tired have the same root. This does not appear to be true. "retire" is from French retirer , to pull (something) back -- as e.g. a general might do with troops that need to stop an attack. "tire" (ve
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by gjm11 4y ago
> That's because you've been learning languages that are similar. The algol family of languages with OOP. What makes you so confident of that? I took a look at eric4smith's website. His current language of choice is Elixir
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I don't understand the relevance of your paragraph beginning "If I see an amazing demo" to the question at hand. I assume it's meant to be an analogy that justifies your answer to Q2, or something of the kind, but I do
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As it happens I do think consciousness is computational, but that isn't the point my thought experiment is trying to make. Rather, I was saying: if it turned out that consciousness is computational, or more precisely implemented by s
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The point of my thought experiment isn't "a computer does something relatively human", it's "a computer does the same things a human does at the level of neuron activations, leading to the same things a human does a
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I would be interested in your response to the following thought experiment: After years of heroic work and ingenious insights, along with a lot of technological progress, we "solve" the "easy" problem of consciousness in
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For anyone who's wondering why the strange title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness
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Safety isn't binary. The only way to achieve total aircraft safety is to have no aircraft. If the FAA literally cared about nothing other than safety they would have everything grounded, so clearly they do to some extent care about o
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Suppose you're buying it to play games with rather than e.g. for machine learning. Then the benefit you get from it is proportional to some measure of gaming experience , which is not necessarily proportional to "performance&quot
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What browser do you use instead that does support those?
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If people are slacking off more when working remotely, then measures that make doing the job less frustrating seem likely to have outsized positive effects, by reducing that slacking-off. (Maybe I'm assuming I'm more typical tha
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I think #1 and #3 of these make a particularly good combination; they have very different and quite complementary merits. CLRS is rigorous and precise and analytical and theoretical. Skiena is handwavy and pragmatic and not always quite cor
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My favourite thing about his 3:16 project is the name he gave to the technique (of, effectively, taking a stratified sample of the Bible in order to get an overview of its themes): "the way of the cross section". (If the pun isn&#
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by gjm11 4y ago
I think you are failing to distinguish between three possibilities. 1. Most people like censorship, or at least certain kinds of censorship. They don't use Gab because Gab doesn't censor the things they want censored. 2. Most peop
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I'm not sure how many levels of irony, if any, you're employing there, so here are my actual not-ironic opinions: If there were somewhere a museum large enough to contain it in one piece, that would actually have been pretty cool.
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by gjm11 4y ago
I share your sense that there's something horrible about this. But I don't think it's necessarily true that the only way it adds value is "from the perspective of maximizing revenue". Suppose you've got a boo
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We manage OK with cosh for the hyperbolic cosine even though "cosh" is a word. For that matter, "sin" and "cos" are both words, though of course "sin" and "sin" are pronounced differently
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I said that it's natural , not that it's right . I decline to pay you for rolling your boulder up and down the hill.
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I think that gets the causality the wrong way around. I've heard plenty of people express similar sentiments without (so far as I can tell) being Marxists. More likely: it sticks around as a tenet of Marxism because it's a thing m
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by gjm11 4y ago
Why do you think this has anything to do with Covid isolation?
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We're talking about a multicellular organism. An animal's skin keeps out things that its individual cell membranes aren't concerned with. (I don't actually think the details of what cell walls, cell membranes, skin, etc.
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No, I've made a substantive observation about the point actually at issue: you implied that every country necessarily has immigration controls at its border, which in fact is not true. You had tried to support that claim by making an a
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That analogy may be more insightful than you meant it to be. Animal cells (e.g., the ones in your body or mine) do not have cell walls. They do have membranes surrounding the cells, but they aren't walls. In the same way, any country h
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by gjm11 4y ago
Could you point me at some of those records?
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From "Bill Gates had some meetings with Jeffrey Epstein" to "Bill Gates had sex with underage girls trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein" is ... quite a leap, no? I mean, enough of a leap that I don't see why anyone would
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by gjm11 4y ago
What that article says about Bill Gates is that on multiple occasions he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein. Do you in fact think that that is ethically worse than using a huge company's monopoly power to stifle competition? It seems to
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Bill Gates was a programmer and used to run Microsoft. Mark Zuckerberg was a programmer and still runs Meta/Facebook. Larry Ellison was a programmer and still runs Oracle. Maybe you're just pointing out that if you're running
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by gjm11 4y ago
With h_chr + SocialFixer + uBlock Origin (but, note, FB have been messing with their HTML in ways that currently break SocialFixer's sponsored-post detection filters, so this is a bit worse than usual) the top 50 items in my feed are:
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Hmm. I thought what the comic was aiming at was not "Even though I have seen a proof, I still cannot really believe that it works" but "Even though I have seen a proof, I don't feel that I fully understand why it works&q
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If "God" is the answer to every question (or at least every sufficiently ultimate-sounding question) then I suggest it is not really a useful answer to any question. Frankly, what you say comes across to me as "How dare all t

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