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by lores 3y ago
If there's someone available in the near vicinity... Average survival rate starts around 90%, then drops about 3.3 percentage points per 10 minutes until the blockage is fixed. The worst kind of infarction, total blockage of the left a
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by lores 3y ago
Conversely, Magnus loses against other people regularly, so why single out Niemann?
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by lores 3y ago
It's l'Académie Française, there are no language purity laws, English words are not banned in France, the Académie offers recommendations that the civil service generally follows, and Québec is generally far purer about the French
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by lores 3y ago
I think you are mistaken here. No doubt England produced literature in French, but in France proper the trouvères were active from the late 11th century, writing poetry and plays in Old French, and a cycle of the life of the Saints probably
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by lores 3y ago
Only if they are discretely identifiable, in a wide range of conditions, in a short enough time, and do not conflict with other circumstances...
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by lores 3y ago
Seconding all of those. Disco Elysium and some parts of Witcher 3 are some of the finest storytelling of the 21st century in any medium.
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by lores 3y ago
It's not a replacement, a collection of atoms is assembled on a remote planet. And it needs not be a single entity, as the thought experiment with the failure to destroy the original body shows.
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by lores 3y ago
I can't seem to be able to reply to your comment below, but thanks for the clear illustration. I don't disagree with PM PM; I don't believe in souls. What I do believe in is that there is a quality of consciousness that is li
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by lores 3y ago
I'm saying replacing a neuron or cell at a time within a quadrillion of them empirically leads to continued consciousness, and that assembling a quadrillion cells on a remote planet with no material connection whatsoever with the origi
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by lores 3y ago
But we are not talking about mitosis, so we don't need to go there. We are taking about a machine that assembles atoms on a remote planet. None of the atoms come from your current body. What magic would transfer your consciousness into
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by lores 3y ago
So, the slow replacement preserves consciousness. Why, who knows, but it happens to us already every day, so we can take it as granted. If it didn't, we'd be someone different every day, with false memories, and while it's no
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by lores 3y ago
I'm not following. Let's assume the teleporter fails and the original is not destroyed, leading to a clone of you on Mars. What then? Who are you?
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by lores 3y ago
I think we're talking at cross purposes. Me, the body I inhabit, is still on Earth. The person on Mars, who likely also has a consciousness, and is for the whole world exactly the same as me, is still not me, but someone else, because
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by lores 3y ago
How would that work? Would you control both bodies, see through both set of eyes, think with both brains? How would the ineffable quality that makes you feel like you are you get transported to Mars? I don't think that's a tenable
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by lores 3y ago
Imagine the "destroy the original" part of the teleportation fails. Is your consciousness still in your original body or on Mars? Certainly, still in your original body. Now the doc is replacing parts of your brain with silicon. I
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by lores 3y ago
The game told me I was a psychological reductionist, for whom only psychological continuity is important. Fair enough, but it then berated me for taking the spaceship rather than the teleporter. Um, what? Whatever appears at the other end o
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by lores 3y ago
They aren't - all 50 states have laws to the effect that minimum wage is minimum wage. The states that also have a lower "tipped minimum wage" require the business to make up the difference if tmw + tips < mw. Which makes
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by lores 3y ago
I love this kind of obscure scholarship, thank you!
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by lores 3y ago
And I'm putting 90% of the blame for that onto the mainstream media, reporting irresponsibly and perhaps maliciously in order to milk a fear cycle out of AI. And some of it on OpenAI/Google execs, now cynically drumming up inexist
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by lores 3y ago
Of course not, not as long as boomers are more effective propagandists and control more of the media, corporations, and public offices that matter.
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by lores 3y ago
Believe it or not, not enough to make a difference. The limiting factor is qualified academics' time.
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by lores 3y ago
I worked in the kitchen and know how the soup is made. If you insist on calling it stone soup, then it's granite - unglamourous, lots of skilled but drudge work to process, but valuable then.
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by lores 3y ago
Why would electing them help? Does the average elector have any understanding at all of what they'd be voting for?
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by lores 3y ago
You're right, and many/most researchers want to publish in Nature, or Cell, or a handful of journals. They don't want the cheaper and well-regarded journal that's perfectly tailored to their research. Part of it is ego,
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by lores 3y ago
Publishers make ~30% profit. High? Yes. Sit-on-your-pile-of-gold-cackling? No.
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by lores 3y ago
There is, in hiring a highly qualified set of reviewers.
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by lores 3y ago
You are absolutely correct. I have made a tool that suggests the most suitable journal for a particular paper to publish. Fewer than 50% researchers care; they all want to be in Nature, price be damned. Academia is not wrong to say publishe
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by lores 3y ago
Peer review absolutely add costs. Finding a reviewer who's qualified, free and willing takes time and effort, and that's increasing by the day. Frankly, I think peer review is doomed. There's now a flood of AI-generated paper
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by lores 3y ago
That's hitting the nail squarely. If your margin is 5%, going to 10% is far better and far easier than doubling your market share.
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by lores 3y ago
If you believe that people who aren't paid half a million to come up with new ways to display ads have meaningful freedom of choice of employment, rather than different flavours of shit sandwiches, I politely suggest you reassess. And

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