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by jbotz 5y ago
This is all true, and obviously so. But the flip side is that IKEA does have good stuff at good prices, and they have pretty much everything you need to furnish and equip a home. Walking the entire IKEA maze is still faster than visiting
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"This research may in the future lead to new ways humans can help each other remove surreptitiously placed Apple AirTags."
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I really can't speak about Pranayama practice, but in general, just because something has been around for 1000s of years doesn't mean it has been improving. Ideas and practices associated with religion tend to be quite static, of
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One could also say: Pranayama is a thousands of years old religious practice laden down with ritual and unscientific concepts such as "vital life force". Wim Hof has, by trial and error, distilled the essential parts of it into a
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Am I alone on HN in being perfectly happy to get a bit of insight in the human nature of scientists doing impressive work? Seriously, yeah, some of this stuff may be fluff, but it does matter. Two scientists can be doing equally good work
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I didn't say anything about primates... I was talking about nature in general. And I didn't say that humans are more aggressive than all other animals, only that we are among the most aggressive. And yes, chimpanzees and some ot
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> it seems a bit like we are regressing as a society to animal kingdom behavior Hey, on behalf of my animal brethren, I resent that! ;-) Seriously, while nature can seem cruel --- red in tooth and claw --- there also exists in nature a
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How did you contact them? I had problems getting mail to MS years ago and at the time wasn't able to get anyone to do anything or even respond. At some point later the problem went away, though.
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I think we do agree... "complexity alone" certainly will certainly not give rise to consciousness. Consciousness begins with feeling and separating the "I" from the "other"; I feel hunger, that there is
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Except that they all agree that there is no "hard problem of consciousness", that's the part that's illusory. I think Dennett takes the illusion position too far, so I think I'm somewhere between those three. But
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Actually I do; but... 1) such a Turing machine may have to be a lot more powerful than anything we currently have. With or without invoking QM mechanisms, there is reason to believe that every single neuron does a lot more computation than
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The experiences are real, but the homunculus behind your eyes that you think of as yourself is an illusion. In reality there are a bunch of fairly independent processes talking to each other, sharing the perceptions, reacting to them, feed
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Right now, "Where's the WEBB"[0]. At least so long as nothing goes majorly wrong it makes me really happy to see this thing being deployed and soon to vastly expand our knowledge of the Universe! [0] https://jwst.
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HN is definitely not an echo chamber; we see here quite a variety of positions on many controversial issues, and the great thing about HN is that we often see really good and well supported arguments on multiple sides of an issue, becaus
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You know that the BBC is not American, right? It's the British Broadcasting Company. Could you please stop calling all English-speakers Americans? ;-)
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"...that is the only employer of actuaries in town, so they are completely marooned..." In any career there were always those who will limit themselves to the options "in town" and those who will go anywhere, anyhow to m
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They can't "really see"... they have eyespots with just a handful of light-sensitive cells and no lenses, so it's just gradients of light and dark. But they have other senses and I think the word "see" was met
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+1 for healthy paranoia.
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This is from 2012 (should say so in title).
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Corporations are spineless, both literally and figuratively.
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Oh, it most certainly would; it would wipe out billions of dollars of what many people consider part of their wealth. Joe Cryptomillionair spends more of his regular income because he feels rich because of the balance in his crypto wallet,
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> Corporations will do anything permitted by the law ... A bit off-topic, but corporations will also do things not permitted by the law if the potential penalties are likely to be significantly lower than the potential profits. And, of
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This is essentially lucid dream induction. Lucid dreaming is when you become conscious that you're dreaming while dreaming... and once you are consciously dreaming you can direct the dream actively rather than experiencing it passivel
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The mind may not work anything like the electronic computers we're familiar with (in particular, the hardware vs software distinction may not be useful for understanding the mind, which is implemented in "wetware" that's
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Heh... and neither can you take it as a given that physical objects outside of your skull have a more substantial existence than mathematical ones. Let's do a simple thought experiment... Do you believe that GAI is possible on conventi
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I think that your insistence that your own existence is substantially different than that of an ideal circle is the real "quasi-religious mumbo-jumbo". "Physical reality" is just your way brain's way of interpreting
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Yes they are. By the definition of "stupid" in this article, they are. Like Bonhoeffer says, "there are people of remarkably agile intellect yet stupid".
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What do you do with Nomad at home? What comprises your hardware? Just curious...
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So use Firefox where it works, and Chrome where Firefox doesn't work for you. There's a little Firefox extension called "Open with..." which makes it really quick and easy to open a tab or link with another browser. If
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Magnesium helps with that as well [1] (see my comment above in this thread). In general, magnesium is involved in lots of biological processes, but especially those involving hormones. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33

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