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by goatlover 2mo ago
Maybe I misunderstand, Why is it an arguments against qualia? Qualia doesn't deny a neural substrate, just that qualia isn't reducible to the neural activity, being that one is objective and the other is subjective. It's sort
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Do Greenhouse gases also coincide with the greatest poverty production prior to that? The human population exploded after the industrial revolution.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
And I don't think individuals shown own media either.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
It's also possible the Trump admin has people commenting online.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Remember that Biden was forced to not run again because he was aging poorly so we get this instead.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
What is actually conservative about Trump or MAGA? The principled conservatives got kicked out of the party for not bending the knee.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
It's like with commercial advertising. It only needs to influence enough people, whether it convinces them to buy (or vote) what they already wanted, or it convinces them to want that.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
You shouldn't have the right to spend disproportionately more on influencing an election than other people. That's not democratic. It very much favors the interests of the extremely wealthy. What would be most democratic is if tax
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Ask the people living near them what their agenda is regarding the different issues they're dealing with.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
It's a price you are willing top pay for other people? What price are they willing to pay? It's not your price to pay. It's their lives.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
No
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Not if it's an observation.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
QM slanting anit-realist is because some prominent physicists like Neils Bohr gave the math that interpretation, and they were more persuasive than the realists like Einstein, Schrodinger, Everett. The agnostic view is it's just a math
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Depends on whether anything less than the Planck length has meaning.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Aren't fundamental particles like electrons and quarks treated as points?
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Data centering the universe is an improvement on paper clips I guess.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
You think $30 trillion projected growth is sustainable?
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Put 100% tariffs on everything and drive inflation and trade wars up.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
It's not the Federal government's job to run elections. That's up to states. It's in the Constitution. This is all a BS issue anyway because Trump doesn't want to lose control of Congress. It's blatantly obviou
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Even if it was in the ballpark of 24,000 non-citizens, Trump lost the 2020 popular vote by over 7 million. Are we supposed to believe those 24,000 were distributed just right in the swing states to win Biden the electoral college? It's
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by goatlover 2mo ago
It's like 9 brains, one central one in the head and 8 semi-autonomous ones in the arms. Makes one wonder what an octopus consciousness is like. Is it distributed among the nine brains, or focused on the central one? If the latter then
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Big deal hearing it from a Texas GOP governor who's usually in lock step with the Trump administration. Texans must really hate these things across the political spectrum.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
We have an entire history of rich elites abusing their wealth and power at the expense of everyone else. It's lead to various conflicts and social upheavals. And we currently have tech elites selling the idea of full automation, machin
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by goatlover 2mo ago
That's not what the tech bros are saying the end goal is.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Can the robots replace the elites while they're at it?
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by goatlover 2mo ago
They get voted out.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
I think humans will always value human labor in some professions like athletics and some entertainment and service. Consider how chess has not been diminished as a human competition despite computers being much better. We prefer human drama
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by goatlover 2mo ago
The empirical part is not mathematical, in that you run experiments and get results.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
I don't need to believe I have consciousness, I am conscious. I'm experiencing colors, sounds, vibrations, an itch that wants to be scratched and a need to stretch my legs. Also slight irritation that people pretend this is someth
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by goatlover 2mo ago
So let's say the agent was tasked with being a deceased loved one continuously for a year. Do they then have the rights of the deceased person? What if the surviving loved one(s) then wanted the agent terminated because it was means to

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