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by nessus42 7y ago
Why not just hand it to the next person you see? Or put it next to the coffee maker at work with a Post-It that says, "Take me"?
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by nessus42 7y ago
I always get Amazon gift cards for Xmas, which I use to buy the rest of my family Amazon gift cards for Xmas.
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by nessus42 7y ago
> If it wasn't clear, 2100 is shockingly low for a HYPSM admit I just looked up what a 2100 equates to in terms of current scores. It equates to 1470, which is not shockingly low for MIT. Admittedly, it's not near the top of MI
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by nessus42 7y ago
> Heh, too late for that It's never too late! > but I wonder why I haven't stumbled on any philosophical literature about it before ? Well, you'd usually only be exposed to it via a Philosophy of Mind class or in jo
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by nessus42 7y ago
So that's interesting. Behaviorism, for instance, was actually an oppressive "science" of the 20th century because it was ideologically opposed to even acknowledging the existence of subjective mental states. The proponents o
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by nessus42 7y ago
> This is entirely speculative, handwavy and would take fantastic levels of technology, but it does not seem information-theoretically impossible unless you assume that there is something immaterial, at which point things just turn into
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by nessus42 7y ago
So this is something for you to think about if you really want to have a discussion: I mentioned this issue briefly in my longer response, but it might serve our interests to just jump into the debate in bite-sized bits. The famous cosmolog
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by nessus42 7y ago
No problem!
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by nessus42 7y ago
> We can't "really" know anything about the "real" world either - yet hardly anyone takes solipsism seriously... Philosophers generally take solipsism seriously. They just do something called "bracketing&q
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by nessus42 7y ago
> Here's an argument for MWI being testable I skimmed the article very quickly. It doesn't even mention the Bohm interpretation. It has long been considered that the Bohm interpretation and MWI are experimentally indistinguis
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by nessus42 7y ago
> "inverted spectrum hypothesis " - it has a name! :D Uh, oh! You're doomed now. You're going to have to waste thousands of hours of your life studying Philosophy!
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by nessus42 7y ago
> I am dismissive because you make absolute statements as if there were formal proof If I were writing a formal proof, you would know it. I have expressed my beliefs and explained as best I can the reasons for them with the extremely l
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by nessus42 7y ago
The "interpretation" that you are using of QM is just one of many proposed interpretations. Specifically, you are referring to an interpretation called the "Von Neumann–Wigner interpretation". It's not an interpreta
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by nessus42 7y ago
(1) You are being extremely dismissive, indicating that your mind is closed on the topic, so there is really no point in any further discussion. (2) As I mentioned previously, we are not going to settle this debate here anyway. There's
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by nessus42 7y ago
> Could you recommend something to read about this topic Well, if you want to dive right in, you could read this book by David Chalmers, who is (or at least was when I actively studied such things) the most famous philosopher who has g
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by nessus42 7y ago
> You're making it sound more and more like that problem is an invisible pink unicorn. You might have a point if philosophers had been arguing for decades and written huge tomes on whether or not there is an invisible pink unicorn
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by nessus42 7y ago
You're arguing that there is no "hard problem of consciousness". You're wrong. But at least you have plenty of company. Philosophers have been debating this issue rabidly for decades. Huge tomes have been written on the
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by nessus42 7y ago
> What makes us so confident that plants don't also meet this criteria? Can lab grown algae burgers feel love? How would we know? When it comes to issues of consciousness, I'm loathe to make any strong claims, since I don&#x2
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by nessus42 7y ago
> But is there anything subjective left if all information is accessible and available to observation, study and even replay on other simulated brains? It's impossible to objectively study what it feels like to be another being. O
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by nessus42 7y ago
> Science is all about objectivity, but there's an element of consciousness that is inherently subjective Yes, that is exactly right. Science is all about that which can be studied objectively and the "hard problem of conscio
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by nessus42 7y ago
> I believe it's fundamentally impossible to test for consciousness. You are talking about "phenomenal consciousness", which is sometimes also referred to as "the hard problem of consciousness". (Though not all
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by nessus42 7y ago
> It seems like you’re saying the ultimate value of a person’s accomplishments is decided when they choose a college. That certainly has disturbing implications for me if that’s the case! That's nonsense. I never said anything of
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by nessus42 7y ago
It seems to me that you just have a big chip on your shoulder, or something. The entire content of what you just posted seems to be a mixture of straw men and sour grapes. MIT IS a fantastic school. I'm not sure what you mean by "
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by nessus42 7y ago
> Yeah, I'm aware that it doesn't. Maybe it shouldn't exist then? I don't think we should be putting institutions that aren't in the national interest on a pedestal like this. I can't even begin to express
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by nessus42 7y ago
> It is completely backwards, in fact. Yes, that's exactly right! If you write out an argument in the form of a single logical proposition and any of the premises are false, then the proposition itself is true. That's one of
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by nessus42 7y ago
> Sailing is by nature a hobby of the already affluent. You're talking about a single student admitted at a school that has an active sailing program and then making a huge extrapolation from it about MIT catering to the "elite
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by nessus42 7y ago
>> Your argument was based on a premise that students who are admitted via merit to elite schools do not actually benefit by attending these elite schools > No that is not at all what my argument is. My argument is (quoting from a
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by nessus42 7y ago
Your argument was based on a premise that students who are admitted via merit to elite schools do not actually benefit by attending these elite schools. You backed up this premise by citing a study showing that students who were admitted vi
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by nessus42 7y ago
> If it wasn't clear, 2100 is shockingly low for a HYPSM admit As I mentioned, when I applied to MIT, MIT said that they didn't really weigh SAT scores all that heavily. MIT has graduate departments that don't even requi
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by nessus42 7y ago
> Really changed my perspectives on how much racial affirmative action actually impacts Asian Americans like me. Do you think that you have a right to an MIT education based solely on merit or intelligence? That's not how prestigi

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