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An Observer Observing Itself(leverlabs.io)
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by ozy 10y ago
Just watched all his 4 talks https://media.ccc.de/search?q=Joscha . Time well spend on this Sunday January first :) And if I interpret it correctly, he is talking about concepts that come not from our direct sensors, but fr
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We perceive a low resolution, small slice, of reality, which our brains preprocess and amend by prediction, and that is "what we see". So yes, we don't see anything outside that resolution, or outside of that small slice. And
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"There are however many things which are more subtle, and I think this is what he was referring to." Can you give an example? Because I cannot think of any. That we interpret the wavelength, or even the combination of wavelengths,
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Amazing talk. "Markov Decision Model ... also called a story" :) As for consciousness, I like his explanation. I personally think it is the brain that keeps a log of past decisions, so that when pain/pleasure comes, it can lo
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"TCP_NODELAY forces the protocol to avoid holding data" That is the misunderstanding. It will send one non full packet, and only then "hold on to data" until the next packet is a full packet. But that condition will rese
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by ozy 10y ago
"TCP has an option you can set that fixes this behavior called TCP_NODELAY" That fixes nothing. Now you are sending too many small packets using too many syscalls. Just like UDP, buffer in user space, send in one go. If you do tha
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"God [..] it would be trivial for Him to raise Himself from the dead" It would. But maybe he is crying for humanity as we slowly start yet another religion, costing us yet another two centuries to recover from. Why would a god eve
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by ozy 10y ago
Acts was written in greek, 50 years after those events, and that is being generous. This is the common understanding even by christian scholars, right? Even if the bible is the most coherent book ever, makes sense at ever line and grand plo
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If you think I misused evidence or proof, or switched them, please show me where and why and what difference it makes. But It would be easier if you engage with the content of the argument. I apply something I call maximum grace, that is, i
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"That's... pretty good evidence." No it is not. It is extremely weak evidence. Written by people who clearly had alternative motives. "This was written down for us by a guy who was in the room when it happened." It
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> Here's a summary of the evidence I'm talking about. And that is our disagreement, my bar for evidence is a lot higher. Literally the doc itself says: "the resurrection of Jesus Christ is either one of the most wicked [..
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How does Stephen proof that Jesus rose from the dead? And why does that evidence convince (or not) the Sanhedrin? Remember this is not long after it all happened and these are the same men who asked Pilatus for Jesus his execution. People a
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by ozy 10y ago
To me it is about abstractions. FP cannot abstract over mutable state. In a way that is a good thing, less mutable state is easier to control as you grow a program. But inability to abstract is not a good thing. (Just like how async infects
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Going back to my line, > archaeological & prophetic evidences Nothing that somehow moves away from 3: humans writing down their myths and beliefs. The bible talks about an exodus of 1 million jews from Egypt, zero evidence. The bible
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by ozy 10y ago
I am not so sure if your example is of the same level. My questions were more at how can you "anchor" the bible. Broadly speaking, I think people can be somewhere on the following line: 1. The bible is the perfect word of the crea
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If we could have knowledge of such things, maybe. But what if it turns out this is a simulation by some extremist party, who want to see how to stack people against each other using religion? In that case we would owe it to the people there
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by ozy 10y ago
That is a challenge ;) I am not sure what you think the bible is though. But here are a few things. The bible predicts the earth is set on pillars (Job). But it is not. The bible says man was made in gods image, etc. So it is really surpris
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It think you took predicting a bit too far and singular. It is not just predicting that is conscious, and it is more simulating or considering or even pattern matching. This is what I think: Consciousness is continuously self observing pas
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Beings that find themselves in a universe that was created a minute ago but looks old, would be correct when they conclude it looks old. Anything else is unknowable and can not be used to further any theories. Especially when such ideas are
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From our universe, and simulations we can create, and simulations in there, etc. it holds. It is interesting to think that an outside universe could be so different it does not hold going up to base reality. But that implies that logic, mat
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> but I can't see any way that NPCs in a virtual reality/simulated universe can be conscious If in the future we have even faster computers, and ability to scan all the molecules in your brain (at good enough resolution, but no
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If we are living in a simulation, it is a simulation of atoms, or quantum fields, or perhaps something deeper behind that. That got started with enormous energy in the form of hot dense quark gluon plasma. From there the rest follows. It is
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If compute power is the only thing that matters, we do not live in a simulation. The best computer we can hope to build in the future will only have a minute fraction of the compute power of reality. Simulating reality on that computer will
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Maybe this thread is not yet dead, seeing a reply a few hours ago. I did intent to reply, but life happened I suppose. I am curious about your thoughts. Here is why I think it does address the so called hard problem: The goals of these plan
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An observer observing itself, would that not feel like something to the observer? What you describe is when the observer is disconnected from longer term memory.
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Consciousness is the way your brain self corrects. That is my personal theory. On a few time scales you brain makes plans. It uses beliefs and a model of the world to make those plans. It stores those plans and the actions it has taken. And
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I completely agree, but am slightly more optimistic. We have many areas in this life where this applies: god/politics/health/climate change/vaccinations/gmo and more. And almost everybody is searching. Instead of re
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I completely agree. And this is the interesting part of the discussion. (Also your other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12895406 .) My first part on trying to answer that is, you acknowledge the human&#x
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Not addressing them also pushes people away, because articles like this will be ignored at best, can be called propaganda at worst. Moreover somewhat thinking/reasonable people, who are cautiously not against GMO, and then hear such ar

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