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by mysecretaccount 3y ago
> He seems to be saying that it is a physical process, but that it is not computational This is a contradiction in terms, is it not?
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by mysecretaccount 3y ago
One of the best comments I have read on this site.
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by mysecretaccount 3y ago
It was a funny joke and I was giving him a note about it, maybe he can improve it.
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by mysecretaccount 3y ago
> it seems a bit unfair to exclude anti- (or at least non-) materialists for not having a theory. I do not exclude them on the basis of not having (what you consider to be) a theory. They have a theory: consciousness has a non-physical d
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by mysecretaccount 3y ago
> Pain (and related feelings) cannot be definitively reduced to computation. This is an assumption. Sensation cannot currently be observed, definitively.
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by mysecretaccount 3y ago
The materialist claim is that a bot can have subjective experience.
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by mysecretaccount 3y ago
I have some appetite for it. Either conscious is mere computation or it is not, and either branch should be explored. I think assuming that either branch is correct beyond a reasonable doubt is wrong. Is there any material (!) you can link
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by mysecretaccount 3y ago
Sensation could come from computation. It also might not come from computation. We don't know.
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by mysecretaccount 3y ago
If his theory boils down to an acceptance of qualia as evidence of non-physical (extra-physical, super-natural, dualist, whatever) basis for consciousness, then a) I am open to it but b) he has done a terrible job conveying this idea clearl
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by mysecretaccount 3y ago
> What else is there? This is why I am extremely skeptical of "anti-materialists" or whatever you want to call people like Seth: if conscious is not mere computation, what is your theory ? Do you even have a theory? Why did I
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by mysecretaccount 3y ago
Doesn't Exist Wish Fulfillment Rant That You Posted Online Cafe
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> From February to March, the CPI index that excludes food and energy shows that prices rose at an annual rate of 5.8% this year Didn't the BLS say 5.6%, not 5.8%? From https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ > In March, t
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Ask HN: How much money is there in the world?
3 points by mysecretaccount 4y ago|1 comments
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> According to Peter Zeihan, if Russia were to win in Ukraine, they would continue and Poland might be next. Zeihan's predictions have an abysmal track record. He tends to predict the most sensational outcome. I would not take his w
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
No mention of impact to ICs. Seems strange to me.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> If an AI equal in intelligence and expressiveness to humans emerges, how do we think about its consciousness, relative to humans? The same way we think of human intelligence, right? I cannot prove that you are conscious any more than I
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> But ChatGPT-17 will also insist it is conscious. It will cry when offended, swear when pushed past its limit, laugh if it hears a genuinely novel joke. The resolution to your paradox should be that ChatGPT does not do this convincingly
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Norad monitoring another 'high-altitude airborne object' over northern Canada(cbc.ca)
4 points by mysecretaccount 4y ago|1 comments
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> Leading financial indicators such as yield curves and oil futures are painting a very clear picture and it's not good. Care to elaborate?
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
n=1 but I previously thought the reports of Twitter dying were overblown and I just signed up for Mastodon.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Has anyone put up a website with the same jet tracking information that these now-suspended accounts had, in one place?
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Thank you, I came here to ask for an explanation for how this was optimized.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Yes. Do not travel with children that age anywhere that would be out of your comfort zone personally.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
It reminded me of Milan: a lovely place to live, but a pointless place to visit as a tourist. And I'm at least a CEFR B1 in the language - it would be an atrocious place to visit if you have no Japanese. No clue why the article recomme
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> Many, if not all, will also have clean public toilets available 24 hours, amazing local produce for sale, and, those Japanese vending machines with hot coffee(those are specially awesome after business hours). They are incredible, and
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Can you sleep in a camper at michi no eki that lack campsites?
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Yeah, I have spent a year in Japan and visited most prefectures and disagree with the article. Of course you should get off the beaten path, but if you avoid it like the article recommends, you will have a much worse time. Additionally, the
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
One of my primary "consumer electronics" dreams for the future is that e-ink displays become cheap and commonplace. Something about screens causes them to steal away your attention. "Ambient" screens for menus in bars&#x
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
> postmodern I do not think that word is appropriate in this context.
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by mysecretaccount 4y ago
Zeihan is one of those commentators that seems to throw a bunch of wild predictions at the wall to be entertaining, appear insightful, and be able to say he called it when one of every dozen ends up being correct.

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