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by procgen 5y ago
I recommend Peter Hiesinger's 'The Self-Assembling Brain' if you're interested in a neurobiologist's perspective on this problem and its importance to AI.
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by procgen 5y ago
Amoebas are intelligent. All living things are intelligent.
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by procgen 5y ago
What is "traditional morality"?
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by procgen 5y ago
Atrocious. I've never used replit, and now I never will.
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by procgen 6y ago
I think it's less about any societal reaction and more about the organism's experience. It would be more useful to perform similar genetic experiments on human beings, in any case. But I imagine that you would be opposed to that?
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by procgen 6y ago
Tat tvam asi
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by procgen 6y ago
This scene from The Sopranos addresses this idea beautifully: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFDq985HvPk "Everything is everything."
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by procgen 6y ago
A koan is a tool intended to be wielded by a teacher. I've never found it helpful to read them, anyway - it seems to miss the point. Language only obscures the fundamental truth.
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by procgen 6y ago
Sociopathy.
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by procgen 7y ago
One percent of one third of 328 million is 1.09 million. So more than a million, and those mortality and infection rates seem optimistic?
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by procgen 7y ago
Do you have any sense of what the simplest conscious system looks like? Can we construct one from legos in an aircraft hangar?
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by procgen 7y ago
Is anyone but you conscious? If so, how can you be certain?
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by procgen 7y ago
Giulio Tononi's Integrated Information Theory provides just such a framework for determining where consciousness 'most prominently manifests itself': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_t
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by procgen 7y ago
I'm running https://github.com/djmaze/tiddlywiki-docker on a Digital Ocean instance. You can mount a volume where it will maintain all of your tiddlers as separate files - no downloading required (and since your
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by procgen 7y ago
Seconded! I've been looking around, but nothing seems to press both of these buttons. It's a deal-breaker for me, as I often think by sketching. In my notes, doodles are first-class citizens.
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by procgen 7y ago
He also extolled the wisdom-widening effect of writing in E-Prime, a subset of the English language that excludes all forms of the verb 'to be': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
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by procgen 7y ago
>YOUR ideas and YOUR opinions will never stray off the “approved” line Perhaps they will, but there should still be a line. There will continue to be political mechanisms in place to shift it.
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by procgen 7y ago
You might be interested in David Ackley's work on robust-first, best-effort computing. Here's a relevant paper: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos11/tech/final_file... He's working
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by procgen 7y ago
This is the so-called 'superultimate question', whose answer defies inquiry: "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
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by procgen 7y ago
I was surprised to find that they support the Steam controller when using the Steam Link app.
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by procgen 7y ago
It was a peculiar aside - you shouldn't be surprised that you were asked about it.
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by procgen 7y ago
Is the implication that pigs don’t experience pain, or that we shouldn’t care?
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by procgen 8y ago
'The Mind Illuminated' by John Yates. Meditate! I'll also add Ecclesiastes - there's perennial wisdom in that old book, and it doesn't demand a lick of faith.