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by jnicholasp 10y ago
> Arguing that qualia don't exist because you can't observe them externally is like a blind person arguing that I can't possibly see a broken pencil because they can feel the pencil is solid. This is what makes me wonder w
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
> The question is whether we have justification to believe that it actually exists I understood this to mean that you were doubting whether subjective experience actually exists, and I responded by arguing that it is not possible to doub
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
I've read that :) And it appears like a plausible world to me, although of course I have no idea if it's the world we happen to live in. It does seem to get as close to an answer of how a good [entity] could have [created|simulate
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
Ah, ok. Yeah, sort of similar: only some "chosen" people might have actual experiences attached to their existence, for better or for worse.
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It's not clear to me that there would be a meaningful behavioral difference between an entity that feels pain/pleasure from a given behavior, vs. one that "only" registers negative/positive incentive. But, like pr
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
Yes, I'm interested in the possible real world situation, which does seem plausible to me. I accept the idea that, in almost every way, an actual human p-zombie would behave indistinguishably from a conscious human, but if we let go of
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
> Why should I expect this to be any different? Because you experience it? If you do.. The difference between the idea of qualia and the other properties that we granted special status to and then later refuted, is that in the latter cas
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I wonder if that's completely true, though: that p-zombies behave in every observable way the same as non-zombies. What about in this very discussion of inner life and zombie-ness? Will a p-zombie claim to have subjective experience,
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by jnicholasp 10y ago
The idea of subjective experience or qualia can only seem like nonsense if you don't experience it - if you're a p-zombie. If you do experience qualia, if there is "something that it's like" to be you, then the scie
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by jnicholasp 11y ago
You're right about the formatting, oops. There are supposed to be three paragraphs there, but I'm not familiar with HN's formatting, and I didn't think about it after I posted it. I would say that Wikipedia became popula
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by jnicholasp 11y ago
So apparently I should look at my comments after I post them, so I can edit the bad formatting. Also, is there a HN formatting guide somewhere that will tell me how to do italics, bold, make links, etc.?
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by jnicholasp 11y ago
This site wants to be Wikipedia for inferential knowledge - where Wikipedia is a general encyclopedia and catalogs knowledge of all kinds (people, places, things, events, ideas, etc.), this site deals only with ideas that are <i>argum
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by jnicholasp 11y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not really eligible for a YC Fellowship at this point, as I'm not a hacker and don't have a technical co-founder, and therefore can't create the proposed site. This post is mostly for generating discussio
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Apply HN: Wikipedia for how, and how well, we know what we think we know
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by jnicholasp 11y ago
I do wish you luck. Can you give more detail about your day job?
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Seconded. This is a really fascinating book for anyone who is interested in how space and environment affect us, or anyone who wants to build or remodel their own home/office/pub/any other human-used space. Whether or not you
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by jnicholasp 11y ago
And you usually want to avoid RAPE: - Religion - Abortion - Politics - Economics Of course, rape itself is also probably not a conversational winner, generally speaking.