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by haswell 2y ago
This was the first thing that came to mind. After being a skeptic and avoiding it for years, I decided to do a mindfulness/meditation experiment, and indeed, one of the first things I started to realize was just how much my brain would
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by haswell 2y ago
The Waking Up app has up to a 100% scholarship rate for the subscription with no questions asked (you can pick your rate if you so choose). Their philosophy on monetization is that they don't want anyone who can't afford it to be
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by haswell 2y ago
I think the two go hand in hand, i.e. what's actually been happening for the last 40 years is the context in which this ad was introduced, and the reason the ad feels so bad for many people. There's a big difference between using
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by haswell 2y ago
As a musician, the availability of cheap instruments doesn’t reduce the impact of the symbolism in this ad from my perspective. It’s not just a question of monetary value or quality, and is more about the implications of the imagery and the
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by haswell 2y ago
I really have to disagree. I have to acknowledge that there’s probably a pile-on effect from people who enjoy outrage, but a lot of the negative sentiment is coming from level headed musicians and artists; a group that I identify with. And
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by haswell 2y ago
As a person using Bumble and other apps right now (I’m not a fan), I’m actually intrigued by this. The apps are terrible at getting beyond surface level basic compatibility checks, and if this could meaningfully improve “suggested matches”,
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by haswell 2y ago
For me, it’s a mix of both. I’m a musician and a photographer. I felt a visceral negative reaction because those objects are sitting here in my apartment, and I’ve invested thousands of dollars and thousands of hours into them. I also fou
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Bumble founder: 'AI concierge' will date other 'concierges' for you(fortune.com)
30 points by haswell 2y ago|46 comments
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by haswell 2y ago
Many musical instruments are still made by hand to this day. Many of the cameras still in active use were too. And even if you pick up a crappy starter guitar, learning it is a purely human endeavor, propagating the mastery that has been pa
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by haswell 2y ago
Not OP, but in my daily carry bag I bring: a camera, books, notepad with pencils, and my iPhone. I carry those other things because I value photography and the phone can’t replace the tactile experience of writing on paper or turning the
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by haswell 2y ago
> …Also products made by companies that are equally "soulless" (they make these things to make money just like Apple) I have to strongly disagree. Pianos, guitars and other instruments have a long and rich history that connec
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by haswell 2y ago
This is a good point. It does make me question what’s happening at Apple when something like this gets all the way through.
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by haswell 2y ago
Many people (and I’m one of those people) feel that the preservation of craftsmanship and human created art/music is extremely important to a healthy society.
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by haswell 2y ago
I strongly disliked the ad. I also get through my days just fine. I don’t understand the insinuation that people who disliked it must be somehow unable to navigate daily life. Here’s why I disliked it: I’m one of those people who finds them
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Question Mark, Ohio(questionmarkohio.com)
1 points by haswell 2y ago|0 comments
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by haswell 2y ago
Comparing these directly like this is problematic. The 4090 is highly specialized and not usable for general purpose computing. Whether or not it's a better value than Apple Silicon will highly depend on what you intend to do with it.
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by haswell 2y ago
My point wasn't to claim that everyone experiences empathy in the same way, or even that everyone has it, but to point out that pain can't be reduced to "calculations". It's a low resolution substitute for a deeply
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by haswell 2y ago
> but it IS also "just a calculation" to almost everyone else in the universe What do you mean by "just a calculation" here, and how does everyone else's experience of pain apply? You seem to be implying that f
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by haswell 2y ago
I should add that I’m agnostic as to the actual reality of things, and a perspective that has felt useful to me is to remind myself that the fields of science are a map, and that there are portions of the map that are just completely undefi
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by haswell 2y ago
> I guess there are people who still believe the mind is some mystical thing not determined by biology There's a gap between accepting that the mind is ultimately made up of neurons firing and what it feels like to be a mind mad
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The Day the Earth Smiled (2013)(jpl.nasa.gov)
2 points by haswell 2y ago|0 comments
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by haswell 2y ago
We descended from apes. Before we made the jump, apes presumably still felt pain and pleasure. They just didn’t have the same degree of sophistication when making sense of these sensations. Our understanding of shared traits among various a
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by haswell 2y ago
Every human endeavor is underpinned by something social. I think it's appropriate to separate concerns and use categorizations to help us separate ideological goals from practical reality. Paper is also used to fight wars, as are a myr
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by haswell 2y ago
I do agree it's reasonable to not want this kind of use. > it is in fact your purview to "ideologically police" the uses your work is applied to But this seems like a fantasy to me and directly at odds with the realiti
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by haswell 2y ago
Human consciousness does though, e.g. the flow state. F1 drivers are a good example. We tend to not experience continuous time because we repeatedly get distracted by our thoughts, but entering the continuous stream of now is possible with
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by haswell 3y ago
> I disagree that Philosophy should be some sort of objective tool to determine facts In order to rely on words like “objective” and “facts”, you need the philosophical underpinnings that explore the assumptions, meanings, and implicat
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by haswell 3y ago
> Add it up and what you see is that the people in society who ignore intellectualist catastrophizing are repeatedly the winners. Sam Altman got his researcher's fantasies under control, got AI launched and are now the big winner.
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by haswell 3y ago
> Anyway I hope it’s abundantly clear that the argument at this point in the thread is not... I'm not sure why that would be clear at all. The point of my top level comment was that it's difficult to engage with many people a
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by haswell 3y ago
I think that understanding the meta-phenomenon of worriers vs. non-worriers is interesting in its own right. But independent of this, I took the original post to be focusing on the fact that there are better and worse reasons to worry or no
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by haswell 3y ago
> nobody is arguing that AI shouldn’t be taken seriously As far as I can tell, this is exactly what is happening when someone invokes “it’s just a moral panic”. It’s an unserious argument, in that it has no direct relevance to the unde

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