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by montyf 9y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. It may be a bug, but the AI treats it as another legitimate game rule. I wonder if there are any techniques for it to be able to tell the difference... for example, if it can quantitatively demonstrate that the
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by montyf 9y ago
The presidential election showed conclusively who the real propagandists in America are, and it’s not Russia. I’ll admit that I didn’t read the article, and this comment may not even be relevant, but I can’t take the Russian propaganda meme
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by montyf 9y ago
I read "Left in the Dark" and second the recommendation. It's quite an elegant hypothesis even if it doesn't seem to cover all of its bases, but it's a good jumping-off point for those interested in rationalizing ph
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by montyf 9y ago
If you're in the US or Europe, you don't have access to fresh coconuts. The oil you buy comes from far away (do you even know from where?), was processed under God knows what conditions, likely melted and resolidified several time
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by montyf 9y ago
The statements "sugar is bad", "fat is bad", "fat is good" are all equally simplistic and misleading. Fruits are high in naturally-occurring sugars and they are among the healthiest things you can eat. Turns ou
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by montyf 9y ago
I was thinking about this today as I went through my browsing history from half a year ago. I'm not too worried. If anyone had access to that data they still wouldn't know what I was up to, what adventures I had, or even anything
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by montyf 9y ago
Agreed. While we still legally have freedom of speech, the real-life ramifications for speaking your mind can be enormous these days. Try being an outspoken Trump supporter in the tech bubble and see what happens. That's why I exclusiv
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by montyf 9y ago
Tactful people are boring. :)
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by montyf 9y ago
I was always under the impression that SAT scores correlate strongly with IQ, not with practice. I had almost a perfect score[0] on my SATs, and I only used about half the time available, and I did zero with a capital Z practice problems be
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by montyf 9y ago
That gives me an idea for a personal experiment. Have a session or two where your default attitude to every card is "this is really easy" and try not to think of any card as difficult in any way. Compare your recall percentage for
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by montyf 9y ago
People say and write all kinds of things. Just because this Dennet guy is known in whatever field he's in (I don't follow Western philosophy at all, it's still playing catch-up to Eastern thought from two millennia ago) doesn
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by montyf 9y ago
Right, you've described our “intuitive” view — I put that in quotes because it’s more likely that the nature of our society and its emphasis on “progress” has made us think that the future is a real thing. Actually, the present moment
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by montyf 9y ago
You're telling me to consider the evidence? That's funny. Let's just ignore how the US government has been fudging studies for decades to support whatever agendas suited them, whether it be pro-wheat industry, pro-sugar indus
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by montyf 9y ago
> Zen and Buddhism in general is full of people like Alan Watts and Trungpa. Both were highly intelligent, inspiring writers, and alcoholics who presented themselves as masters. Pretty sure you're wrong about Watts as I vividly reme
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by montyf 9y ago
How isn't it? Anyway, I agree with his comment but for a different reason: government "research" isn't historically trustworthy. Any psychedelics research sponsored by the government, directly or indirectly, is going to
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by montyf 9y ago
I think the vast majority of what we perceive as limits aren't real limits at all. Maybe that's a controversial statement, but there's little in the way of me doing most of I want to do except various fears and (largely) illu
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by montyf 9y ago
Thanks, that's really interesting, including the Criticisms section. I think that there must be a mix of psychological and physiological factors at play. Not sure how directly relevant this is but I used to get dead-tired if I had any
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by montyf 9y ago
It being a biological limit is certainly possible; your post is interesting and I don't want to discount it. But I really do think psychology plays a huge role in these stories. From my personal experience running track and field this
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by montyf 9y ago
Of course it exists, I am conscious right now and I presume you are, too. But where are our experiences located? Clearly nowhere in the physical universe. It's a really simple thing to grasp if you're not a dogmatic Materialist.
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by montyf 9y ago
I always liked the story about the breaking of the 4 minute mile. It shows how easily our brains can box us in to particular views of reality, and how they act to further perpetuate this "reality". I bet that if a minute was, say,
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by montyf 9y ago
> Everything else does and we've never found evidence of a single thing that doesn't. Right, consciousness seems to be in its own, unique realm in some way. > That I experience a feeling of existing in no way at all implies
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by montyf 9y ago
Probably no real impact. I'm not an expert and my knowledge on this comes entirely from a free guided tour of Lisbon I went on today, but the democracy was already a complete disaster. The second paragraph on this wikipedia article[0]
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by montyf 9y ago
I used to worry about this a lot, especially in the context of anesthesia and whether I was conscious during my surgery and just blocking all memory of it. Does it even matter if we don't remember it? It's an interesting question.
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by montyf 9y ago
Consciousness is supernatural and metaphysical by virtue of it existing outside the natural and physical world. This is true even if we could prove that some formations of matter correlated or even had a one-to-one relationship to conscious
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by montyf 9y ago
That reminds me of this thread where user chinacat describes taking a thumbprint. He calls it a "beyond death experience". Very interesting stuff and I recommend reading his posts. https://www.shroomery.org/forums&
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by montyf 9y ago
I got into Dota 2 after League -- now THAT is a great game to watch. I played for a while before quitting that, too; as you say, it sucks up a lot of time, and there was no surrender option. Going to the International must be a great experi
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by montyf 9y ago
Thanks, it's interesting to see articles like this every now and then as someone who briefly followed pro League back in the day. I guess it was Season 1 as I remember Doublelift being a lowly Blitz main before he switched to his curre
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by montyf 9y ago
That's a very open-ended question and not specific at all. Expecting a specific answer to that is just going to lead to disappointment for you and waste the time of your candidates.
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by montyf 9y ago
If you tunnel-vision on expecting a specific answer when asking a vague, mostly irrelevant question, why would I want to work with you? Frankly, I find your strategy for making new hires to be absolutely absurd.
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by montyf 9y ago
I'm on a new computer and Slack takes at least a second to react to mouseclicks. It's completely ridiculous since, let's be honest here, Slack is a pretty basic chat app.

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