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by mooseburger 7y ago
Any example of that?
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by mooseburger 7y ago
> Maybe that belief that I am conscious is flawed and merely an illusion That's the Dennett nonsense. Of course our sense inputs are an illusion, it's that there is anything being perceived at all that is the mystery! : DENNETT
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by mooseburger 7y ago
> various physical and chemical elements can form ever more complex pattern-recognizing feedback loops You're not being reductionist enough. The brain is just atoms. 'Feedback loops' is just a model, and not actually real.
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by mooseburger 7y ago
It's conflating conscious awareness with the existence or non-existence of free will. It's conscious awareness that is the ineffable mystery, unless you believe the chair you're sitting on actually feels you sitting on it. I
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Seeing the Smoke(putanumonit.com)
3 points by mooseburger 7y ago|1 comments
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by mooseburger 7y ago
Heard of the China brain thought experiment? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_brain Would such a brain be conscious? Why or why not?
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by mooseburger 7y ago
> But it will be interesting to see how it grapples with new discoveries in neuroscience. Which new discoveries in neuroscience affect the idea of Brahman?
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by mooseburger 7y ago
Both the brain and a chair are made of the same fundamental particles, following the same physics. Yet, no one believes the chair experiences anything. The core problem of the materialist frame is why the atoms that make up the brain are ab
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A Full Life(technologyreview.com)
1 points by mooseburger 7y ago|0 comments
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Keynes was wrong. Gen Z will have it worse(technologyreview.com)
24 points by mooseburger 7y ago|5 comments
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by mooseburger 7y ago
I'm not sure I understand the people claiming you should use server side session tokens instead. How am I supposed to make that work with Angular? I have to be able to send to the client the user privileges somehow.
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by mooseburger 7y ago
A talk about how the collapse of industrial civilization is a physical inevitability at this point.
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How to Enjoy the End of the World(youtube.com)
1 points by mooseburger 7y ago|1 comments
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Civilisational collapse has a bright past – but a dark future(aeon.co)
3 points by mooseburger 7y ago|0 comments
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Most Americans Expect Life to Get Worse by 2050(economist.com)
4 points by mooseburger 7y ago|4 comments
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Is There Such a Thing as a Net Energy Cliff?(resilience.org)
1 points by mooseburger 7y ago|0 comments
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The Climate Wizard of Yendor Is Awake(reddit.com)
1 points by mooseburger 7y ago|0 comments
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by mooseburger 7y ago
Nice! You're pretty smart. But you think me being a jerk is somehow relevant to anything? Hmm. A-.
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by mooseburger 7y ago
It does not matter that I am a jerk. I guess Dyatlov would have thought Akimov was a jerk if Akimov had just beat him up instead of following his orders. And Akimov would have taken the morally correct decision if he had beaten him up.
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by mooseburger 7y ago
But the US is Trantor. Trantor is the last place the decline starts to hit. The decline is already hitting me on Terminus.
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If (big if) the world was ending, how would you know?(reddit.com)
4 points by mooseburger 7y ago|8 comments
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by mooseburger 7y ago
Even discounting the feedback loops, an energy transition only in the developed world would do very little.
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by mooseburger 7y ago
Suppose the US oil industry had not engaged in science denial then. Does this somehow mean that the rest of the world's emissions would now be at the level they need to be?
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by mooseburger 7y ago
Yeah, and their only choice is to stop, because the US and Europe alone cannot solve global warming.
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by mooseburger 7y ago
Yeah, and still the fact is that if US GHG emissions drop to 0, it won't do much for global warming. It was good that Biden brought up in last night's debate that the US produces 15% of global GHG emissions. Which is disproportion
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by mooseburger 7y ago
@krapp I just don't fear violent rhetoric. It's not something that merits a reaction, in my view. Basically, if an author can say it in a book, then random citizens ought to be able to say it on the internet.
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by mooseburger 7y ago
@krapp I don't believe anything deserves to be targeted for canceling. It's basically the main thing that polarizes me against progressivism, the obsession with speech control.
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by mooseburger 7y ago
More fundamentally, it's a problem with secular society. Really, if the only goal of life is achieving material prosperity, and you're not achieving it, there's no particular reason not to kill yourself, other than holding on
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by mooseburger 7y ago
> Where did I get the idea that popular people were malevolent? They were the primary bullies growing up? That's where I got the idea, at least. And suffering seems like a more authentic emotion than happiness, as there are all sort
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by mooseburger 7y ago
This sounds kinda nice. Certainly better than a sandwich, or a lunch. You have to give it points for originality at least.

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