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by nis0s 1y ago
I liked it better when philosophers and thinkers could hash things out without turning things into a spiritual experience or movement. The idea of God is a useful framework for Idealism, but the mistake humanity keeps making is letting its
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by nis0s 1y ago
It would be more fruitful if you say what you think I am missing, shrug To clarify what I meant: the human experience cannot exactly be created without a human body, but the exact form and matter of the body is immaterial for a higher-lev
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by nis0s 1y ago
Essentially, nations have solidified into what they are because different people have different cultures, while their initial formation was motivated by organizing productivity and easing commerce. Governments help implement useful tools fo
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by nis0s 1y ago
> But when it comes to national cultures we pretend that they're all comparable and all equally good. They are not. I think it’s less about culture as people commonly think, i.e., dancing, music, food, clothes, stories, religion etc
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by nis0s 1y ago
That’s the gist of phenomenal consciousness, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the human body or the human brain is particularly important for creating consciousness, or aspects of humanity that we like. Though, it seems they work well
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by nis0s 1y ago
Physics, it explains a lot about the natural world than people are willing to credit it, including aspects in neuroscience and cognitive psychology.
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by nis0s 1y ago
Hard pass, most people are annoying and messy. Living with people also introduces other human issues, like people getting jealous of you, or trying to exploit you. If one has to have roommates, be super discerning and stingy with your trust
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by nis0s 1y ago
Is it socially unacceptable or mentally unhealthy to not have sex? If you want to, and cannot then it’s a problem for you. But if you don’t want to, and don’t, then who cares? Note that I am not talking about asexuality or gender identities
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by nis0s 1y ago
True, and there is also plenty of evidence which snows how neuronal degradation in some pathways leads to losing aspects of consciousness.
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by nis0s 1y ago
Exclusive doesn’t always mean luxurious, for example a social media site that’s exclusive to certain genders etc., but luxury services and items are often by their nature exclusive because of the barriers needed to attain them. The other fe
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by nis0s 1y ago
In general, I think the “private jet” model is useful for figuring out how to develop different experiences for people with different needs or resources. I don’t care about airport lounges per se, but more about the lack of imagination from
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by nis0s 1y ago
Honestly, it sounds less like a problem with “elite overproduction”, and more a problem of a society lacking imagination and creativity to divert resources in efficient ways. It’s especially appalling that a company service meant to sell ex
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Delta Struggles with Elite Overproduction(fortune.com)
5 points by nis0s 1y ago|8 comments
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by nis0s 1y ago
How is this user data even reliable or useful when someone can make fake personas and populate their activity with LLMs? Drivers licenses can be faked. Moreover, someone can just pretend to be someone else on this app with real drivers lice
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by nis0s 1y ago
Research which needs to be a secret already is treated as such, so there’s no real benefit to adding further restrictions. Trade control is a useful tool, which is also already used where applicable, and researchers have observed that trade
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by nis0s 1y ago
2016 is nine years ago, why should anyone expect stellar cultural artifacts every year? Art is hard, and no one should expect culture-defining art with any regularity over a short period of time, unless there is currently an art movement wh
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by nis0s 1y ago
> What Piff and his team found at that intersection is profound — and profoundly satisfying — in that it offers hard data to back up what intuition and millennia of wisdom (from Aristotle to Edith Wharton) would have us believe: Wealth t
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by nis0s 1y ago
The police there has been instructed to conduct affairs in pairs today, people have been instructed to report any police officers traveling alone/solo. You can also call 911 dispatch to confirm any police at your door is legit.
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by nis0s 1y ago
A sizable population of the US voted for Trump to address the issue of illegal immigration. People who keep denying the reality of other people’s views which aren’t aligned with their own cannot be taken seriously, especially when they’re t
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by nis0s 1y ago
Please bear with me, I read it a long time ago. I don’t think there’s any distinction between sentience resulting from organic or digital processes. All organic brains are subject to some manner of stochasticity which determines emergent be
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by nis0s 1y ago
Sorry, but no I think it overemphasizes the parent over the resultant progeny for no reason, and as such I think the story is limited in its vision and treatment of the subject.
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by nis0s 1y ago
It's not what you'd expect for a linux machine but it just works and has a reliable ecosystem with iOS. The worst is trying to understand how it stores information, but again if you're expecting control like in a linux machin
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by nis0s 1y ago
This article…the kind of technology described herein, and other places which gets cast in a suspicious light, is actually quite useful. The problem with the information such technology affords, however, is that any primitive-minded human ma
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by nis0s 1y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134873
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by nis0s 1y ago
Just fyi, the point of papers in science and research is to disseminate information to figure out the nuts and bolts of the universe. If truly someone has performant agents at “PhD level”, whatever that means, then they should be building s
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by nis0s 1y ago
> One way to think about neural networks, especially really large neural networks, is that they are topology generators. That is, they will take in a set of data and figure out a topology where the data has certain properties. Those prop
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When It Comes to AI Policy, Congress Shouldn't Cut States Off at the Knees(garymarcus.substack.com)
3 points by nis0s 1y ago|0 comments
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by nis0s 1y ago
There seems to be a relationship here, as shown in this paper, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5837358/ I am skeptical of the idea that a CS itself produces any conditions for ASD. But it would make sense
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by nis0s 2y ago
America is quickly devolving into a lawless, third-world country. Based on the news reported thus far, it seems the judge was arrested because some egos got hurt. Usually when third world country leadership starts acting capricious, there i
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by nis0s 2y ago
Yes. Why not?

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