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by placebo 9y ago
When someone tells me they know how to fly, I first ask them to show me before claiming they are full of it. Of course philosophy has value but I too am quite disappointed how easily it enables very basic flawed assumptions to exist over eo
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by placebo 9y ago
We haven't been given an expiration date regarding ignorance and inexperience so it's no surprise we see it in 2018 or that we will continue to see it well into the future. An interesting question is whether the amount remains rel
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by placebo 9y ago
I find the subject fascinating, but the main impact I got from reading this was learning how a young, curious, extraordinarily intelligent person with immense potential and who already contributed so much is murdered by human stupidity. I&#
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by placebo 9y ago
I understand that space "shrinking" is a perspective (which is why I originally placed it in double quotes) and that velocity is relative - my question was meant more as a thought experiment of taking the subjective experience of
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by placebo 9y ago
Not a physicist so please bear with me: Isn't this just an argument about definitions? It makes no sense to say that the universe has 0 size from a photon's reference frame and it also makes no sense to say the photon has a refere
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by placebo 9y ago
After squeezing all the potential I could off my VIC-20 (and there was way more than meets the eye), I bought a 2nd hand Atari 400 which was fitted with an actual keyboard. Never asked them how they did it and never bothered to check if thi
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by placebo 9y ago
it's not about the number of people you are surrounded by but the depth and nature of relationship with them. Wasting energy showing off one's own conformity and following other people's conformity to society's current t
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by placebo 9y ago
nice, thanks :)
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by placebo 9y ago
I don't know enough about evolution so this could be way off, but I'd guess the idea is that nature "designs" the algorithm via evolution (imagine some Turing machine's code/neural net equivalent being slowly i
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by placebo 9y ago
Resource usage in this reality will only become reasonable when there will be a noticeable penalty involved in unreasonable usage, but I guess it boils down to what you define as reasonable: If a noticeable penalty is measured by the end us
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by placebo 9y ago
I wonder if a similar principle could have been used in the construction of the late Dr David Jones’s bicycle wheel: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4762778/How-r...
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by placebo 9y ago
I think at the right dosage, it's welcome. For me, mild doses of good humour upgrade the most serious of discussions without detracting from their professionalism.
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by placebo 9y ago
You're right that it would be nice if the article would provide more evidence to back that claim up (especially given the article's content), however I don't think it's such an outlandish claim if you look at the facts.
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by placebo 9y ago
Only noticed your reply now. Can continue discussion via email if you're interested, but will quickly refer to what you've mentioned: I'm aware of Tegmark's view and was quite intrigued by it at the time, but I see it mo
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by placebo 9y ago
I could make a long list of natural behaviours that you really wouldn't want humankind to adopt.
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by placebo 9y ago
Ok, I'll try to explain myself better: First, of all, it should not surprise you that there are limits to what can be achieved with reason or knowing how things work: Within the boundary of what can be thought about there are already p
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by placebo 9y ago
With all due respect, I take the opinion of neuroscientists on the hard problem of consciousness as seriously as I'd take the opinion of a Zen master on issues in neuroscience. The fact that neuroscientists might one day deliver an exp
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by placebo 9y ago
I think it has a great deal to do with abandoning something simple not because it's not good enough to do the job, but because of fear of being left behind, fear of becoming irrelevant in a world where "new and improved" is i
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by placebo 9y ago
Thank you, that's news to me. While I still remain skeptical due to the orders of magnitude of complexity in the gap between C. elegans and humans, it definitely calls for a reassessment of the probability I have previously attached to
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by placebo 9y ago
As the procedure has not been proved to be reversible, it suggests to me that finding a future cure for the original ailment is the easiest assumption to make in this field. I'm more interested to get better answers to the myth that &q
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by placebo 9y ago
Yes. Another way to look at it is the bottom line of various non-dual/mystical teachings which is basically that the best way to achieve lasting happiness is to eliminate the seeker of it (of course, not in a physical sense) - or put m
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by placebo 9y ago
Likewise, was wondering whether someone would mention it here. I'm quite impressed and considering at some point paying for the premium features (mainly support of NoSQL databases).
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by placebo 9y ago
same way I manage other things, which is sort of the opposite of what one might do in SEO management - I drop the long tail, and only focus on what's left. Of course the contents of what's left depends on your personal priorities
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by placebo 9y ago
I admit my ignorance of not knowing about him previous to reading this. Also admit a sad feeling of retroactive loss now that I have learned a bit more about him. Hope he'll be a role model to others that follow.
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by placebo 9y ago
I don't think it's a silly question, but I think free money basically means dismissing the money system altogether. That would work in an ideal world with ideal people but we are not that far out of the jungle yet (and I'm no
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by placebo 9y ago
Interesting how the concept of randomness can only exist in contrast to the recognition of order, but who notices order other than a mind that defines it as such? But this mind could not have been created in the first place were it not for
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by placebo 9y ago
I understand, though I think you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater here, especially since unlike quantum-woo BS, the hard problem of consciousness or the essence of "matter" is nowhere near being solved, (and I woul
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by placebo 9y ago
While I'm not religious, I don't understand what specifically in that paragraph warrants dismissing a person's perspective on the matter. Could you elaborate?
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by placebo 9y ago
"Why stop now just when I’m hating it?" - Marvin the paranoid android
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by placebo 9y ago
Yes, an impressive set of problems solved with an impressive set of solvers. Quite a bit of experience stored on that site. One thing I'm interested to know (as someone with less experience in constraint programming), is when does one

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