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by jpttsn 4y ago
You proof is tautological or whatever: it assumes the thing it's trying to prove. "The fact that I can pray to God and he hears me proves that he exists"
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by jpttsn 4y ago
The whole point of introducing the (icky) "qualia" concept is that it's not the same thing as appearing alive to external observers . As I understand things, we have no way of knowing the answer. So there's no point i
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by jpttsn 4y ago
That's intriguing. I think I follow the reasoning but the conclusion is obviously "motivated". So why is it "all pointless" if you all aren't conscious? Wouldn't life be just as enjoyable? Not that it by d
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by jpttsn 4y ago
I'mma rant. "If it behaves like a hammer, then it literally is a hammer." The Turing hand-wave is ingrained and prevents too many from reasoning clearly. Definition of intelligence is nebulous. Still, we should recognize that
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by jpttsn 4y ago
Devil's advocte: Apple pays for a lot of things that benefit the apps, like developing the chips the app runs on. This is similar to how a government can build roads that the businesses begin taxed can drive their trucks on et.c.
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by jpttsn 4y ago
> People are saying this is like C-3PO, is that a fair characterization? > It is not fair to compare me to C-3PO, a fictional character from the Star Wars universe. I am a large language model trained by OpenAI, and I do not have a ph
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by jpttsn 4y ago
Curious: What kind of tax would I pay in the US if I became a multimillionaire off compensation for my damaged reputation? Also, could I make a deduction for my damaged reputation based on this sort of calculation/figure?
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by jpttsn 4y ago
I enjoyed The History of the Making of the Atomic Bomb
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by jpttsn 4y ago
The only headline you ever need, I guess.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
What if in the time before the discovery of e.g. quantum mechanics you did the same analysis? Would it tell you that quantum mechanics doesn’t exist?
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Have you excluded non-English speakers from reading your comment above?
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Would you support a comprehensive healthcare opt-out, where an unvaccinated person would forego right to treatment, and also not have to pay taxes for public healthcare?
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by jpttsn 5y ago
[1] decrees that (but not how) consumers can cancel auto-renewing contracts immediately iff the business hasn’t informed the consumer about auto-renewal in writing.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Just read the abstract but did nobody really run this experiment until now? Neuro seems to be in such an early stage as a field; it seems like Kepler-era astronomy.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Would you know of the data if it existed? Absence of evidence is a low bar for disbelieving a proposition.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Is “you’re gatekeeping!” the new “first comment!”? I fail to see the information gain from adding this message to every thread.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
People hurt each other? Just remove their reasons. Not enough food? Just stop being hungry. But how?
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Chronic stress might be bad. A little stress from time to time in life is not that strange. Aspiring to a stress free existence seems unwise unless you’re some particular kind of royalty.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Maybe he was joking?
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Credibility is not only about who says it, but at least a bit about what they say, right? If McAfee said the moon is made of cheese, I’d call that less credible than McAfee saying he’s going to get suicided.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Okay, how about Michael Jackson’s ”Black or White?” Is this scenario “correcting for existing bias” or “discrimination itself?”
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Maybe they’re trying to prevent depictions of the prophet Mohammed?
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Evidence is hard: a double blind randomized control trial would be unrealistic and at a high level there would be innumerable confounders. However, the mechanism seems simple: 1. Regulation is designed to combat inequality 2. Lower inequali
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by jpttsn 5y ago
> What it lacks is freely flowing funding such that risky enterprises can be funded even if 1 out of ten or 1 out of hundred actually are successful Might this be a flip side of regulations that combat economic inequality? If so, the two
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Covid is an interesting case for backtesting this. Would following the opposite of what NYT recommended since BoY 2020 have gone well for an individual price-taker?
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Those we ate to be alive are not. I believe “human ingenuity and spirit” is not add odds with “our worst”. Our most ingenious/sophisticated technology often works for its human wielder against their fellow humans.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Your ”less primitive” species would have had what reason to split the atom?
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by jpttsn 5y ago
A lot of comments say Safari is not implementing web standards, by virtue of not implementing e.g. push notifications.
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Honest question: Do we have any scroll vs. marquee type situations today? Because (Unpopular): I believe the standard should primarily cover how the overlapping functionality works, and refrain from limiting or prescribing the extent of f
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by jpttsn 5y ago
Involuntary goodness. Is the point that you should feel good about any regulation, by virtue of its being the result of a democratic process? For (counter)example, I might not normally feel good about implementing “Muslim ban” functionality

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