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meroes
4y ago
It happens and just like the meme they drive it hours to you once found, even across states. Just happened my sister and brother in law who had trained to another state by the time theirs was found.
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meroes
4y ago
A tiny amount got a friend charged in a national park. Federal Park rangers. Doesn't matter if it's in a legal state.
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meroes
4y ago
Sorry for the late reply. Dungeon Siege 1 had an expansion pack called Legends of Arranna which was sold as a bundle at first on Steam. Sometimes later LoR was removed from everyone's library leaving only the base game. You can downloa
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meroes
4y ago
I was around 25 for both. Is that considered "late/older"? That's an interesting idea.
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meroes
4y ago
I’ve had two hallucinagenic experiences (acid and 2c-I) and I never got any life changing experiences. Is it like hypnosis where you have to believe in it to have it work? I know someone cured of an addiction from her hypnosis so I know the
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meroes
4y ago
Even Steam revokes paid for content, which I think is the issue being discussed. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=11481...
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meroes
4y ago
So they didn’t start MOH, thanks for clarifying and I now can understand your post better.
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meroes
4y ago
I didn't mean to make the point weed should be substituted for opioids. But all of weed's symptoms are a proper subset of all of opioid's. Less powerful but less addicting and harmful to simplify. And that alone means we shou
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meroes
4y ago
Yay. Recreational marijauna user here and opioids scare the crap out of me. Had to take 10 oxycodone after a surgery and if they can hand those out they can hand out marijauna capsules or whatever. It's really that simple.
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meroes
4y ago
If that’s all it takes to effect a coup, it’s not a coup. That’s all they are doing is telling. A completely normal and legal part of their whole existence. Not my fault you’ve misunderstood how entities in society function and FB wants to
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4y ago
A regime change that operates by simply telling FB there's increased Russian propaganda? A boogyman that powerful I'm sure he's responsible for everything!
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meroes
4y ago
Seems extremely boring to me.
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meroes
4y ago
Chinese room thought experiment maybe. It says a human does not learn language purely formally (the man inside the room doesn’t learn/understand Chinese like a natural Chinese speaker does by shuffling formal syntax around), which prog
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meroes
4y ago
Is running this sum more justified than in the past, and why should we think it will look the same for the future?
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meroes
4y ago
In case you’re interested, in the 20th century James in his pragmatism essentially did this for all of philosophy. He divided philosophy in two 2 main types, roughly the pessimist and the optimist or tender method and ____ method (forgot th
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meroes
4y ago
What about the actual hard problems not represented here, like describing/recreating the feeling of toothache in physical mechanism? Some philosophers alive today say we have essentially made zero progress and probably never will on th
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meroes
4y ago
I think not for distance and time. I’m not a physicist but Nima Arkani-Hamed phrases the minimal distance measurable as a physical process limited by QM and GR effects. To probe smaller and smaller distances one needs more and more energy,
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4y ago
And don’t blame others for not finding this satisfactory either. Many many mathematicians think abstract objects exist outside of physical reality. Chomsky says “physical” hasn’t been well defined for 200 years. And finite physical processe
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meroes
4y ago
Something like this kind of drew me into geology. The inside jacket of my intro textbook explained the Mediterranean used to be damned naturally at Gibraltar or whatever the inlet is called and that so much salt water evaporated there where
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meroes
4y ago
Well in either case we deserve our hubris!
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meroes
4y ago
It's this claiming business when we don't actually know which makes me worry we will soon claim AI sentience without AI having it. The opposite problem of yours essentially.
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meroes
4y ago
Okay I thought the theater implied some impenetrability to studying itself too. I don’t see that from Searle.
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4y ago
It may be woo, but how I understand his approach is a rejection of dualism and the Cartesian theater. To commit to physicalism but lean very hard onto what can be asked of it. One must do some kind of move to escape the Cartesian theater. T
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4y ago
No, what happens is consciousness instantiated the whole setup: natural language, Chinese language, syntax, the room, computation, dictionaries, lookups, etc. The whole thing is a giant computation. Yet computations are as mundane (lifeless
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meroes
4y ago
Searle is a physcalist though
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4y ago
This reminds me of a place that purposefully puts their hours wrong online. In their own words, they are too busy. Further than static difficulties, there may be a purposeful reaction to make it more difficult for the online world to “digit
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meroes
4y ago
I found Dubai did I win?
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4y ago
2,000 years in the future: a brain is indispensable for AGI
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meroes
4y ago
What about something which changes is always equal to itself? Or experience is real. Static statements. Curious how you’d deny these kinds of things.
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4y ago
Is a ruler and compass computation? They don’t operate symbolically and are computers.
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