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by meroes 4y ago
I'm the opposite - I want my food to match my biological expectations, one of the largest being sweet = I just took in quick calories. Not for any grand reason other than I let my hunger and energy levels guide my food choices. I find
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by meroes 4y ago
It’s no coincidence the discoverer of nonlocality John Bell insisted on clear beables (ontology) of the theory. It’s not philosophy to posit what exists. Be careful because doing it your way may require future disentangling as mathematical
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by meroes 4y ago
Ontology was central to past physical theories like of Newton or Aristotle though. Why is ontology inherently philosophical? (I mean in the natural philosophy way it is sure, but I don’t think you mean just that). I don’t see biologists get
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by meroes 4y ago
Well my take is the jokes didn’t single any caste out. It was almost at a meta level against society - we literally can’t get laughs with many jokes about gender. That’s it. Is that because the jokes aren’t funny or because it victimizes on
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by meroes 4y ago
There must be an opposing critique by now about physics having all the mathematizing one could hope for and yet no clear ontology of QM. Petabytes/day at CERN, several dozen QM interpretations with math and statistics, and yet the most
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by meroes 4y ago
Explain what caste you think the joke targeted and why please. I'm pretty sure largest reaction on Reddit was that it actually didn't target who you think it did.
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by meroes 4y ago
The native Chinese speaker is NOT a Chinese room because nothing in the room speaks like a native speaker. No part or amalgamation of room/dweller/setup has the property the native speaker does. Only the native speaker understands
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by meroes 4y ago
They didn't say exact. Exact isn't the concept I'm concerned about. There is something unique about mathematics in that its answers never change. And that static structure can be tapped into with calculators. A "calculat
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by meroes 4y ago
The model for mathematics is something like a “good book” of once-entered, unchanging posable questions and theorems. More may be added, but once added there is a sense of permanent definitiveness and relevance. For your example and beyond-
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by meroes 4y ago
This is part a larger “fear” of mine. We never get to actual singularity because along the way AI is either good enough or we mislabel it to thinking we’ve reached the singularity when we haven’t. Or some other allure/consequence that
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by meroes 4y ago
I think there are inevitable outcomes we can predict early on which are not sensitive to these considerations. You might think I’m doing a ton of guessing and hindsight reasoning, but I do want to at least say one of the principle character
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by meroes 4y ago
The Foundation series is my main imagination pump here (it gets me thinking about this stuff): This is one of the most interesting empirical questions, if there is life or not outside of us, but it seems like there must be. And if there is
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by meroes 4y ago
It’s acting out on the weakest link in the problem chain. Normal bullying and lashing out. Nothing more or less.
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by meroes 4y ago
https://youtu.be/zEdQbMziYfE Here's JDH speaking about these paradoxes recently, that his substack is how he's publishing a book, and more stuff
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by meroes 4y ago
My coworkers and I do not earn a living wage for our locale from our company. That’s easily tens of thousand of employees at one of the largest companies in the world. I doubt most locales earn living wages working there in our job and simi
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by meroes 4y ago
Good for you for having the choice. I can't make the choice for my immunocompromised roommate.
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by meroes 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1NggzEkltM https://www.vice.com/en/article/dp3e4y/the-us-government-has... There's at least 1 federally legal marijuana patient.
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by meroes 4y ago
I don't find it suspect (well, suspect of what exactly?) as a native to these cities but I may lack perspective. Go one city over all over the Bay Area and you get wild differences. There's a lot of land between north bay cities t
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by meroes 4y ago
Forgive me but I would be lucky to have artists saying anything, positive or negative, about my way of life. Being knowledgeable in something critically studied is very rewarding. You are forsaking opportunity if I dare say so.
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by meroes 4y ago
If the advances create catastrophic consequences there will be a stop by definition. Death of art(ists) and coders may not be a catastrophe, but it could be coincident with one. From OP, "Art AI is terrifying if you want to make art fo
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by meroes 4y ago
This could easily be flipped on it's head. Artists wanting more control over their creations ensures bad actors can't use/misuse as easily. Freely creating tools for any bad actors to use/misuse appears incredibly naive
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by meroes 4y ago
This is why I come to HN! Thank you!
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by meroes 4y ago
One recent genre is auto-battlers from Dota 2 custom game tools. To my eyes that’s been the only large genre grown from in game tools in a decade which has life beyond original game itself. Tower defenses and AoS/Dota/ARPG/Mo
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by meroes 4y ago
How could being the second and third largest donor to Dems/Reps respectively at the same time be a good strategy? Genuinely curious.
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by meroes 4y ago
Sadly (or not!) this is just as good of an answer as the rest to the hard problem. Dualism, computational theory of mind, etc. People talk about a scandal of string theory, they should talk about the cross-disciplinary search for explaining
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by meroes 4y ago
I only don't think he's a troll because the non-illusion options seem just as wild to me. I think it's fair to say we've made almost zero progress on how sensations/experience physically work, and there's not m
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by meroes 4y ago
You say on a scale difficult to comprehend. But where's the scale that's deep enough to be incomprehensible? It's usually doubted anything sub cell-scale is responsible (like quantum microtubules of Penrose are almost univers
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by meroes 4y ago
intelligence is not the target I take it. The target is self-experience/qualia
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by meroes 4y ago
Same. Someone I know claimed he/the owners received $5 million for a single restaurant location over the pandemic. The owners didn't "need it" unless you count not being less wealthy by pumping in their own money a need.
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by meroes 4y ago
Wow that's wild! They weren't letting him off easily because someone died in the park that week and they were all on edge.

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