namero999

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by namero999 15d ago
Yes. Datapoint: the underground garage of the complex where I used to live experienced a large number of thefts (including my motorbike), and in 6 years we never managed to install security cameras because you need unanimity for this, and t
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by namero999 2mo ago
Same, I built a correctly-working AND gate made only of NAND gates but the tests don't pass.
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by namero999 3mo ago
Because more is better. Seriously, the game they play is at this point ludicrous. I saw 18650 cell being advertised through the years as 2500mAh, to 3500mAh (still reasonable/credible), then suppliers started to one-up each other and y
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by namero999 3mo ago
Definitely. An implication of several strands of idealism is that we will be able to create artificial life (with consciousness)... it will just look like biology.
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by namero999 3mo ago
I might in some sense agree with you but check your wording: creationism... we recreated life... see where I'm going?
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by namero999 5mo ago
This is at the same time one of the most solid metaphysics and one of the least known or studied. At least for now.
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by namero999 5mo ago
The "complexity -> magic" argument is just religious belief. Something one accepts without proof or a shed of coherent reasoning around it.
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by namero999 5mo ago
Naturalism and materialism are not married together. Materialism can't claim naturalism just for itself. There are coherent ontologies that are naturalists and not materialists.
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by namero999 5mo ago
Cognition/intelligence is not consciousness. Information processing vs phenomenality. AI is intelligent (it's in the name) but not conscious.
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by namero999 5mo ago
The like-ness properly capture in one go the first-person and the phenomenal aspects of consciousness.
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by namero999 5mo ago
Not even close.
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by namero999 6mo ago
As a counter example, I witnessed 3 months ago a similar scene in my neighborhood, where a kid on a bike, crossing on pedestrian stripes, was hit by a taxi. It was a bad accident but luckily he didn't die. His dad was following right b
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by namero999 7mo ago
IQ tests only measure the ability to pass IQ tests, they say very little about intelligence. MMA fighters might be among the most intelligent people on the planet, playing 4D bullet chess with each part of their body at light speed, while s
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by namero999 7mo ago
Biome is just a fancy term that encompasses a set of moral subjects.
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by namero999 7mo ago
We don't really know that.
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by namero999 8mo ago
That's a very superficial take. "Physical" and "reality" are two terms that must be put in the same sentence with _great_ care. The physical is a description of what appears on our screen of perception. Jumping all
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by namero999 8mo ago
That's the point in contention, how to go from "electrical and chemical signals" (the quantities, mole, charge, mass, momentum, coulomb, spin) to qualities (emotions, perception, first-person perspective, private inner life,
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by namero999 8mo ago
I don't know, you tell me: how do you _exactly_ go from quantities to qualities? Keep in mind that the "physical" is a model of our perception and nothing else.
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by namero999 8mo ago
I might be misunderstanding GP but I take it to mean "rock are conscious" => "silicon is conscious" => "agents are conscious", which might appeal to some uneducated audience, and create fascination around
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by namero999 10mo ago
Maybe the point of someone else you've spoken to. Personally I don't even see how free will enters into this discussion, and if you were to ask me, I don't even think we have it as it is commonly defined/understood. But
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by namero999 10mo ago
Libet has only measured the latency of metaconsciousness/cognition, nothing else. It says nothing about free will, which is ill defined anyway.
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Euclyd – Most Power-Efficient Exascale Token Factory for Agentic AI(euclyd.ai)
3 points by namero999 1y ago|1 comments
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by namero999 1y ago
Especially with Euclyd entering the space (efficiency for AI workloads), with founders with tight ties to ASML, this is the move Europe needs.
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Pixel 10 Pro(store.google.com)
7 points by namero999 1y ago|0 comments
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by namero999 2y ago
A Maksutov 127 is an excellent lunar and planetary scope, light with great portability.
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by namero999 2y ago
Most likely the logic is at least similar. Yes, line by line, each line is encoded in bytes where each bit is a pixel. I had to "invert" the image as the printer will print the "white" pixels (those with a value >0).
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by namero999 2y ago
Funny, just today I finished reversing a similar toy printer, the "bear" printer, not the "cat" one, and writing a driver/library for it in Rust just for the sake of finally learning a bit of it. Looking at the code
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by namero999 2y ago
Why do you entertain the possibility there there could be any consciousness there? Are you also exploring the consciousness of the sewage system of NYC, given that there's nothing compressed sand can do that a complex system of water,
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by namero999 2y ago
Isn't this self-refuting? From the article: > Assume you are racing a Formula 1 car. You are in last place. You are a worse driver in a worse car. If you follow the same strategy as the cars in front of you, pit at the same time and
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by namero999 2y ago
> You would not reject a computer-controlled dialysis machine as "just a simulation" if you had kidney failure would you? Except that's not a simulation, that's the actual process of dialysis in action (which we fully

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