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by md224 12y ago
> What determines whether something is conscious? I don't really have an empirical "test" for subjective consciousness beyond my own immediate, first-person experience of it. This may sound like a concession or even a defe
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> Do you believe a perfect simulation of a human mind would be able to create something with an identical behavior to that of the person whose mind we're simulating? yes or no. Sure, I'll admit the possibility exists. > If y
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by md224 12y ago
> Because human brains are magic? See, this is the problem with this virulent strain of Scientism making the rounds right now. There's this tendency to divide ideas into two camps: "explained by our current understanding of phy
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by md224 12y ago
> Trying to prove a magic talking box has experience when you can't prove another moist robot has experience is moving the goalpost too far out. Maybe I'm just confused about what goals we're talking about. If your goal is
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by md224 12y ago
> Imagine such a computer program fooling every human it interacts with for decades at a time, I think that would say something about ourselves and I think it would render the question of consciousness meaningless. Maybe we're opera
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by md224 12y ago
For a broader overview of Low Level Laser Therapy: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3288797/
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by md224 12y ago
Thanks for the response. I suppose my concern is simply that chat room conversation around a topic doesn't seem to scale well without some sort of structure for organizing input. What impresses me about Reddit is the scaffold it provid
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by md224 12y ago
Yeah, that threw me off as well. For anyone interested in actual brain lasers: http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00...
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Augmentation of cognitive brain functions with transcranial lasers(journal.frontiersin.org)
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Low level laser therapy self-experiment(gwern.net)
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by md224 12y ago
Curious how you see Chapp compared to Reddit. Is Chapp meant for real-time discussions as opposed to the more message-board pace of Reddit? Is it aiming to solve a different problem? For example, you mention discussing Game of Thrones or th
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What Happens When You Let the Internet Tell You What to Draw(wired.com)
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by md224 12y ago
Eh, I think you're thinking about this sentence as an engineer and not a writer. The author wants to draw you into the philosophy of software development, with its mix of processes and productivity hacks; the elaboration in that senten
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Ask HN: What companies are building on the Web Audio API?
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by md224 12y ago
Not sure if you're just being snarky, but I would assume people who write "pre-Madonna" are under the impression it's a reference to the pop star (which sort of makes sense).
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by md224 12y ago
Just a quick note -- and don't feel bad, this is a common mistake -- the phrase is actually "prima donna", not "pre-madonna".
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Curlicue Fractal(bl.ocks.org)
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by md224 12y ago
It's definitely complex and may never be completely solved. The biggest thing in my mind is learning how to talk to these people; if someone is trying to make sense of competing opinions with no good standard to judge them by, going up
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by md224 12y ago
> It is a continuous process prone with errors that eventually evolves into getting us closer to understanding processes. If people take that as a sign that everything is junk instead of having a healthy skepticism and reasoning for them
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Of course, but a lack of trust in the medical establishment is probably an enabling factor. If they trusted their doctors to make the right decisions for their children, they probably wouldn't be buying into Wakefield's study or q
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by md224 12y ago
Do you think this attitude explains some of the epistemological issues behind the anti-vaccine movement? I'm pro-vaccination, but I find it weird when people mock others for not believing vaccines are safe and then go on to criticize G
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by md224 12y ago
> Many of the people around me, however, didn’t feel the same. My friends and parents thought that my choice was honorable, but at the same time I was probably throwing away a chance that I would be unlikely to get a second time. > A
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by md224 12y ago
I'm only 29, but to me it seems like getting older is about figuring out what you really value, refining your ideas and pursuing your desires. In other words, figuring out what matters to you. Some people seem better at finding a clari
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Real Reading, Fake Reading(medium.com)
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by md224 12y ago
> But the risk of a bot snapping a shot of the statement before it gets deleted outweighs the reward of posting ephemerally, at least for me. Sure, that's valid. I guess I just don't see that risk as worth worrying about; I can
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by md224 12y ago
As someone who was just thinking about this concept a week or two ago, I can tell you how I viewed the use case. (And kudos to the developer who actually followed through with building it, unlike me!) To me, it's about subverting the c
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by md224 12y ago
What about the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act? http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1791 > "A person or gleaner shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability arising from the
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by md224 12y ago
Not sure if you'll see my reply (17 hours is an eternity in internet discourse time) but I found your comment interesting. I've also struggled with this guilt/anxiety over low productivity (I think a lot of people do), but I
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by md224 12y ago
Do you think that's a sign of periodic depression? I've been going through a bit of a rough patch, and I was struck by how my mood could sap my motivation to the level where I felt like I couldn't bear to work. It was very
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by md224 12y ago
Yeah, it looks like their solution is just creating a function object whose interface-required method calls the object itself (or at least that's my OOP-centric interpretation). You could do something like that in Javascript (minus the

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