justonceokay

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by justonceokay 5mo ago
Those markets create pressure to ensure that real physical goods and useful services are priced accurately. Prediction “markets“ are in my estimation no different than roulette. If you cross your eyes hard enough, you could claim that roule
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
I’ve asked the slugs and the worms and starfish and amoebas and nematodes and fish about their experience, I’m just waiting to hear back.
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
I guess where I am coming from with my cat robot is that I believe behavior begets consciousness. Whatever behavior is happening, that must mean some internal representation of the world is driving it. Robots will never have human emotions
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
Thanks. It’s mostly a distillation of thoughts I have had from reading the various spats through the years between Chalmers and Dennett. I think Dennett is much more convincing to me. My personal take: it’s easy to imagine a robot that has
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
I’ll bite the bullet: if a robot has a complicated enough internal representation of the world, it may very well develop a concept of love (or “care”, or “noticing”, or “intention”. Love is such a slippery word…) that we would have to trust
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
I’ll bite, I think your individual neurons are “just as” conscious as your whole body/environment system. They can’t advocate for themselves in words, but they have their own goals and interactions and decisions and needs. Your aliens
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
This is the kind of religious thinking the GP is talking about. What other frontier of science do people claim will never be solved, except the existence of a god? Why are you so sure it cannot be touched?
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
Ok pain might be a bad example because a robot may not have a sense of it borne of evolution. But what about “red”? If I make a robot that 99.9% correctly identifies red objects, then I think it is fair to me to say it has a concept of “red
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
Standard procedure at the time for a meeting was: - no PowerPoint - 1-6 page write up of the problem, proposed solution and timeline, and alternate methods that were not chosen - meeting participants ideally have already read the paper, but
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
Once I extracted the medicine from the poison I am very glad that Amazon was my first corporate work experience. Many of the leadership principles and cultural norms there are actually very good ideas when not taken to extremes. I remember
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
As someone who takes antidepressants this is nonsensical to me. I don’t feel 100% normal on an SSRI, I experience the normal side-effects of flat affect and weird tastes, etc. But the alternative is regular panic, exhaustion, indigestion, a
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
When you turn 30
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
Inflation getting you down? Combat it with meth, so you can Cram More Time into Each Second (TM).
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
In the gay community it brings groups of guys into a mutual spiral of addiction and weirdly long sexual practices. They feel like they’re having the best time at first until they are isolated and completely chemically addicted. I’ve lost a
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
As posted lower down, I for years have identified as an addict. I’ve been addicted to uppers, weed, sex, porn, abusive work relationships, abusive home relationships, running, clubbing, and other thrills. Anything that gets my heart rate go
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
I feel a kinship for programming because I did it for 15 years. I do not long for the 1s and 0s…
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
One of the main arguments in the book is that in history the sophists get a very bad shake. The common take is that Socrates beat the rhetoriticians, and science wins out over the humanities. The authors point though is that “quality” can n
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
A friend of mine uses the term “coin sickness“ to describe somebody who would rather have money than material wealth. Someone who sees the brand of clothing but couldn’t identify quality fabrics or stitching.
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
For me (OP) The “question” was more straightforward: I became an addict to various drugs and having a perscripton to uppers is a very bad idea for me.
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
The trade-off is real, and a hard one. For people that have a family and kids it’s probably worth it to stay at the “horrible” job. At least more worth considering. For me though the peace and presence of mind is nigh invaluable. Because I’
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
You don’t have to be privileged to live in the physical world. I quit programming to make candles for years, then apartment maintenance, now in the trades. I make 1/3 what I was making doing digital work, and I’d take a pay cut before
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
Seems like an anger issue on your part. People are not obliged to move in ways aligned with your narrative
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
There’s a difference between getting sick and self-lobotomizing
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
When I started talking more slowly I started realizing who actually listens.
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
I’m so happy that AI is making people lazier because that means I should have that much of an easier time getting ahead
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
I have been a tourist in Seattle for 15 years. I kayak the lakes, go to the popular restaurants, run the scenic routes, drive through winding roads to avoid traffic, do the basic hikes near town, spend evenings at the locks, joined the sail
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
This shift is supported by the current government. I am personally seeing lots of ads for fed sponsored HVAC training and things like that. Not that it’s an issue, but I’m always wary of what I’m being sold
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
> But a much better path would be to not use systems which fail to have these properties, and expand work on systems which do. Sounds like sage life advice. If it isn’t accountable then it might not be a good idea to have much business w
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
We learn in so many ways, garbage in, garbage out when it comes to our bodies. But what about “nebulously structured algorithmic and statistically likely responses in, nebulously structured algorithmic and statistically likely responses out
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by justonceokay 5mo ago
Yeah, the phrase “the buck stops here” is literally true with a business owner. Employees have the privilege to fantasize—the owner uniquely does not.

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