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by pegasus 6y ago
It ultimately has to be experienced, since it's about dropping/representational out of the discursive mode in which we spend most of our waking time (the default mode network in cognitive science). For me it feels like returning t
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by pegasus 6y ago
Meditation can make subjective time slow down, both in the negative, being bored way, while struggling to enter absorbtion, but also in the opposite way - and that, to a degree that is otherwise unimaginable. Almost like stepping out of ti
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by pegasus 6y ago
I meditate regularly, but I think this type of exercise is misguided and betrays the body-denying/denigrating bias that can be often found in religious traditions world-wide. It encourages an ignorant attitude towards the body: instea
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by pegasus 6y ago
Yes, it was, thank you.
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by pegasus 6y ago
To me art is almost the opposite of entertainment. Art is supposed to challenge us to grow, entertainment is a way to kill time. Big difference, but missed by a lot of people today.
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by pegasus 6y ago
But neither does the car manufacturer actively try to prevent you from doing so.
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by pegasus 6y ago
I'd be surprised if those people making Patek watches are not extremely well paid craftsmen who really love what they are doing.
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by pegasus 6y ago
There's definitely something of the paperclip maximizer to capitalism. It's due to corporations having the instrumental goal of maximizing shareholder value - which usually translates in making as much money as possible. If ther
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‘Largest Distributed Peer-to-Peer Grid’ on the Planet(forbes.com)
1 points by pegasus 6y ago|0 comments
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by pegasus 6y ago
Yeah, "explains" is rather strong, but "pseudoscientific mysticism" is straight-up harsh. It's an inevitably subjective way to organize the world of human behavior and motivation. Like colors themselves, which resi
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by pegasus 6y ago
Ok, but there's no "sharp increase" in 2020 specifically. At least so far.
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by pegasus 6y ago
Although that oddness you mention (how did it go all the way to the Supreme Court when the lower courts' decisions already were aligned?) could point to political maneuvering which would then make EFF's response seem less uncalled
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by pegasus 6y ago
That's just whataboutism though. And sure, in your analogy, you'll have to get in the mud, but that doesn't mean you have to also act like a pig, enjoying it and maybe even shitting on the floor too. Neither does EFF's
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by pegasus 6y ago
But then there's the discipline/scene of natural bodybuilding, where no steroids are used.
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by pegasus 7y ago
That's a powerful argument against the usual anthropic argument for the world being a simulation. I haven't encountered it before but it makes total sense.
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by pegasus 7y ago
It's logically necessary, not just an assumption. The simulated world with all its richness is by definition a strict subset of the simulating world. So the latter must be richer than the former.
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by pegasus 7y ago
It means less visual business, making it easy to pick your way through it. I find all those borders and shades in the NEXT interface distracting and I bet overall it slows people down when interacting with it. Besides, ideally, most eleme
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by pegasus 7y ago
Not sure how, but definitely wouldn't lie about it. Plenty of 80 year-olds would have a chance of making it, so they wouldn't be turned away according to that declaration.
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by pegasus 7y ago
And what the reuters article is saying is that that's not the case at all. So, by your definition, it's not actually over capacity.
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by pegasus 7y ago
This argument is twisted out of shape. Basically, you're saying that keiferski is making the claim "we don't know whether cells are machines", which he should prove. When, in fact, we actually don't know and it
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by pegasus 7y ago
Since nobody knows what consciousness is, we're all going on opinion here, including yourself. So, unless you converse with the fridge in your house and cry a little when it brakes, there's no point in bringing up the lack of sci
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by pegasus 7y ago
It's not just about whether an opinion is for or against, but about the actual arguments brought to the table.
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by pegasus 7y ago
He's complaining that Undo is overly agressive, given that there's no (obvious) redo function.
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by pegasus 7y ago
He's complaining that Undo is overly agressive, given that there's no (obvious) redo function.
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IBM Reveals “Staggering” New Battery Tech, Withholds Technical Details(spectrum.ieee.org)
5 points by pegasus 7y ago|0 comments
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by pegasus 7y ago
Richard Penrose has written extensively on this subject in his book "Shadows of the Mind".
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by pegasus 7y ago
It's hard to quantify change. We keep hearing about the accelerating rate of change, but there are many dimensions along which change can occur. For example, for a long time the maximum speed of travel for us humans was that of a hors
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by pegasus 7y ago
That's exactly what could force us to rethink our technological architecture from the ground up. No way is what we have now even close to optimal in terms of using existing resources. But it's been good enough thanks in no small
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by pegasus 7y ago
Good you can still do that. Next level would be to do it without ignoring all that dark stuff. Yes, there is plenty of horror to go around, but we humans sometims like to fixate on it, amplify and imagine it somehow absolute, fetishize it.
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by pegasus 7y ago
In other world you are happy with your one-sided but at least coherent world-view. Peering through the telescope might endanger that, it's true ;)

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