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by mshroyer 5y ago
How, exactly?
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by mshroyer 5y ago
Why would we assume subjective experience can't be recreated digitally? Inert "code" can't suffer, of course. But assuming we accept the materialistic view, what reason do we have to believe that a mind in a simulated
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by mshroyer 5y ago
I hadn't run across that story before, so thanks for sharing it.
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by mshroyer 5y ago
In what sense does it not work?
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by mshroyer 5y ago
I'm noncommittal toward the prospect that a C. elegans might be conscious (though I doubt it). But here I was using "soul" to mean something metaphysical, requiring something beyond the physical configuration of those ~300 ne
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by mshroyer 5y ago
I strongly disagree. The human brain, in its connectome, encompasses enough computational complexity to contain consciousness and suffering. A chair does not, at least not based on any model I've yet seen proposed.
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by mshroyer 5y ago
> computer-controlled players in games? Nah, I'm not particularly worried about that. Because those are all currently based on models too simple to conceivably have anything like consciousness. On the other hand, once we can simulat
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by mshroyer 5y ago
Oh I think it's an awesome project, too. It's just that it sort of makes concrete what were previously hypothetical arguments about simulating living beings. I can't bring myself to care much about a C. elegans, but let'
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by mshroyer 5y ago
Ah I see... so it sounds like I misunderstood. You're calling for a higher-fidelity physical model, not something metaphysical :) I still think it's impressive if we can get a decent-fidelity model of C. elegans behavior at the pr
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by mshroyer 5y ago
Does this freak anyone else out just a little? This project is simulating an entire organism, including its neurology. To what extent does running this code create a "real" worm? Sure, it's just C. elegans for now. But over t
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by mshroyer 5y ago
It seems likely I'm misunderstanding something, or are you suggesting that C. elegans has a soul?
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by mshroyer 5y ago
Yes, the Framework laptop's battery is more easily replaceable than the new MBP's, from what I can tell without yet having seen iFixit's full teardown of the latter—there's no need to remove the trackpad or deal with adh
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by mshroyer 5y ago
My phone is configured to send texts from any numbers not in my contacts to a "junk" folder so they don't disturb me with a notification. Unfortunately, this really is necessary given the amount of junk texts (and calls) my p
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by mshroyer 5y ago
I'm mostly happy with the trackpad. I don't think it uses a haptic click like the MBP's trackpad, for whatever that's worth. My one complaint about the trackpad, in comparison to the MacBook Pro's, is that while bot
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by mshroyer 5y ago
It's Thunderbolt. (Typing this reply from a Framework laptop connected to a Thunderbolt dock.)
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by mshroyer 5y ago
Both times that the battery swelled up previously, the laptop was still under warranty. Apple wasn't going to hand me a new battery to install myself; I had no choice but to let them install it if I were to have it covered. Now the lap
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by mshroyer 5y ago
The Framework laptop is a good choice—I'm typing this reply from one. My least-favorite thing about the older MacBook Pro I migrated from was that (even when it was covered by AppleCare+) both times its battery failed I needed to wipe
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by mshroyer 5y ago
Mine was delayed by FedEx for a week before being delivered. I chalked this up to what appears to be an at least nationwide FedEx slowdown rather than anything specific to do with Framework. Of course waiting for my batch of the laptop took
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by mshroyer 5y ago
Yep, The Economist is the weekly print newspaper I subscribe to :) But my problem is that I have trouble avoiding checking news websites on a more frequent basis. (EDIT: And that includes some online articles from The Economist... which don
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by mshroyer 5y ago
> A newspaper has a start and an end. That's as simple as it needs to be for me to move on with my day. That's the heart of it. As the author writes, "Once I've read the paper, I'm done reading the news." I
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by mshroyer 5y ago
> In contrast, houses and most buildings in Europe are much sturdier, being built with stone or cinder blocks or brick for the whole wall and inside walls. I don't know the stats, but cinder block construction is very common in Flor
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by mshroyer 5y ago
Even though my new Framework laptop supports Wayland, unfortunately I'll probably end up installing Windows on it. And largely because of the display manager. Wayland itself works great on Ubuntu 21.04. But the screen resolution means
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by mshroyer 5y ago
I honestly think this is a reasonable stance because, while I'm not an expert—to my current understanding, the immunity you acquired from having the virus is probably comparable to the immunity I got from my Pfizer shots, if not better
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by mshroyer 5y ago
> I've never actually heard it spoken Tune into NPR for an hour and you're sure to hear it.
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by mshroyer 5y ago
It was a configuration manager for what was basically a Linux-based wireless router. The Chicken compiler actually compiles down to C, which has the nice side-effect that you can easily include literal C code. Here's an example: https
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by mshroyer 5y ago
I used Chicken successfully in an embedded Linux system where C interop was a high priority. It's a great compiler and one of my go-to Schemes to this day, though obviously the library ecosystem is nowhere near as complete as e.g. Pyth
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by mshroyer 5y ago
I'm not exactly an ACAB kinda guy, but this directed towards a guy who was clearly taking a passive stance: > You ain't pushing up on me, boy? You ain't pushing up on me, you hear me? Fight! Fight with me! Fight! Fight! Lo
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by mshroyer 5y ago
You're not wrong, in the sense that an M1 Mac would have better performance and battery life than the laptop I have on order. But to me, the tradeoffs (not only in terms of privacy, but also user-repairability) are worth it. (And my ne
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by mshroyer 5y ago
The other thing that pushed me towards Framework was the trivially user-replaceable parts, including the battery. My MBP's battery failed (swelled up) twice while under warranty, but it was a pain to deal with each time: wipe the SSD (
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by mshroyer 5y ago
My MacBook Pro is overdue for an upgrade, and I literally ordered a Framework laptop (on which I plan to run Debian) partially in response to this announcement.

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