jrlocke

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by jrlocke 2y ago
Because there is no evidence to the contrary?
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by jrlocke 2y ago
I'll save reasonable people some time by highlighting the key premise: "what if materialism is not the only game in town?"
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Rivian surprises with R3 and R3X electric SUVs(theverge.com)
13 points by jrlocke 3y ago|5 comments
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by jrlocke 3y ago
I think, broadly, it's that a theory of mind should be informed by empirical evidence, by scientific research, and that liberal doses of the those will dissolve away many of the classic problems in philosophy of mind.
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What if I’m wrong? (2023)(behavioralscientist.org)
209 points by jrlocke 3y ago|279 comments
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by jrlocke 3y ago
I'm partial to the 500 mile email: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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by jrlocke 4y ago
I totally get the sentiment, but I really want to read 3 NYT articles a month. To make the company what I pay now for a subscription, that would come out to around $6.00 an article. I'm not sure I'd press that $6.00 to read button
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by jrlocke 4y ago
To be more explicit, I'm saying I find it weird to hear so much about the Chinese room argument from a crowd of (presumably) materialists.
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by jrlocke 4y ago
The Chinese room argument itself isn't very compelling. Surely the constituent parts of the brain are fundamentally governed solely by physics, surely thought arises solely from the physical brain, and surely the constituent parts (and
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by jrlocke 4y ago
You're looking for rout, not route :)
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by jrlocke 5y ago
Unbelievable photo of the decrepit state three years ago: https://twitter.com/gpk320/status/1078885655634157569
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by jrlocke 5y ago
Why not some animals have fictional mental states and others do not?
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by jrlocke 5y ago
> I’ve seen Denver the guilty dog. She’s behaving like she feels guilty [therefore she likely experiences guilt]. I'm not sure I believe this, but there are other believable explanations than yours: consider that humans and the dog
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by jrlocke 5y ago
This is an unpopular opinion, and should be wielded very carefully, but I think something often lost in these conversations is that the existence of a human behavior in an animal is not sufficient evidence that it's backed by the full
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by jrlocke 5y ago
> Cigar smoking in moderation (all the way up to one cigar per day) has been shown to be a fairly minimal risk multiplier for cancer Honestly curious about this one, do you have a source?
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by jrlocke 5y ago
Let me just say that if you think you may not want to view the image, you don't want to view the image.
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by jrlocke 5y ago
> Even from an ecological standpoint: hotter climates will positively impact some species (including species which don't even exist yet!), while negatively impacting others. The worry isn't that global warming will be bad for a
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by jrlocke 6y ago
Consider the things beyond this one planet. Surely we're simply at an interregnum between two great ages of exploration.
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by jrlocke 6y ago
Location is simply a convenient cudgel. It would be just as defensible to trot out family size based pay (greater pay for more mouths) or net worth based pay (greater pay for lesser existing privilege) or the like. Location just gets those
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Apple Watch blood sugar measurement coming in Series 7, claims report(9to5mac.com)
4 points by jrlocke 6y ago|1 comments
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by jrlocke 6y ago
Within the article it's revealed that not only is this a new variety, it's a potentially useful tasty eating and cider apple.
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by jrlocke 6y ago
Yes.
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by jrlocke 6y ago
But many preexisting remote-focused US tech companies are not heavily outsourced. They've gone "through the initial pain of setting up remote work" and are subject to the same economic forces. If these companies haven't
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by jrlocke 6y ago
This article presents the functionality as new, but wirelessly charged electric vehicles have been in use at small scale for many years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_electric_vehicle
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by jrlocke 7y ago
Like every other study that purports to show the toxicity of MSG, this one cites wildly unrealistic dosages, dosages that would cause toxicity with salt as well. Just skimming the abstract I see an example with a dosage of 2 mg/g. Scal
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by jrlocke 7y ago
> The NYT employs enough disingenuous obfuscators The opinion writers are purposely selected to oppose and challenge the viewpoint of the editorial board. Assuming that the editorial board is largely truly correct, there is going to be s
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by jrlocke 7y ago
Well, it at least means that their supporters don't consider racism a dealbreaker.
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by jrlocke 8y ago
There is a larger gulf between the complexity of human behavior and animal behavior than you are acknowledging.
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by jrlocke 8y ago
I'm sympathetic to the idea that we have an illusion of consciousness.
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by jrlocke 8y ago
When I took classes with Daniel Dennett, he was always amazed at the strength of convictions people had about consciousness even without education in the area. This is an unpopular opinion, but the human intuition is not a good discriminato

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