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by prometheus76 2y ago
Why did the person who posted this change the headline of the article ("Diffusion models are interesting") into a nonsensical question?
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by prometheus76 2y ago
Yes. I'm no longer a Mormon, but I baptized around a dozen people on my mission and they were all found from knocking on doors. But this was also thirty years ago, before the internet was a thing for most people.
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by prometheus76 2y ago
Less likely to speak English in my experience.
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by prometheus76 2y ago
This was 30 years ago, so I'm sure a lot has changed since then. I was a missionary and the way we got into buildings in Toronto to knock on doors was to just pick the last name with the most letters from the directory, buzz them, and
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by prometheus76 2y ago
Rich people don't pay income taxes. They pay capital gains taxes. They typically don't have income, or very little income compared to capital gains.
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by prometheus76 2y ago
I see it as a clash between people who are instinctually inclined towards philosophical nominalism (woke) and people who are instinctually inclined towards realism (not-woke). Dr. Nathan A. Jacobs lays out the details and the arguments for
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by prometheus76 2y ago
On further reflection, and a re-read after a night of sleep, I agree with you that my example at the end was not a clear indication of what I'm pointing at. I was trying to reveal that "reality" is more than just physical pro
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by prometheus76 2y ago
Numbers are not physical, but you see three objects all over the place. A number is a category. The number "three" exists as a property that I can use to group physical objects (or even other categories). So I can group together t
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by prometheus76 2y ago
A pattern still overlays a physical object. You can abstractly describe the pattern of a crystal without looking at a crystal.
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by prometheus76 2y ago
Numbers are metaphysical, as is music. They both can manifest physically (three cars and three cats, or a Bach concerto making sound waves that vibrate my eardrum). But what makes music musical is that it's a pattern of sounds over tim
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by prometheus76 2y ago
Music has a physical component: sound waves vibrating your eardrum and your brain recognizes the sound. What makes it music is that it is a pattern of interwoven sounds that sound "harmonious" to you. You can physically measure th
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by prometheus76 2y ago
Because you are more than atoms. You are a pattern. A pattern plays out over time. Like music. Music has a physical component, of course, but music is enjoyable because it's a pattern over time.
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by prometheus76 2y ago
Categories, numbers, logic, grammar, etc. all map onto physical systems, but aren't necessarily directly linked. This is "metaphysics" in philosophy, and is essential in order to even reason about physical systems. Just the c
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by prometheus76 2y ago
If I copy the contents of an Apple II disk onto my pc and try to "run" it...nothing happens. Isn't mapped to the new hardware. So who is going to write the "human mind/consciousness" emulator that will map onto
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by prometheus76 2y ago
Wouldn't any change we make to who dies when also be natural? How is that not natural selection? Did earlier generations not attempt to stay alive?
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by prometheus76 2y ago
Yesterday I went out for lunch. By myself. At a local Mexican restaurant. I ordered a burrito and a bottled coke. My bill was $18. Four years ago, that same meal at that same restaurant was $8. My salary has not doubled with inflation, but
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by prometheus76 2y ago
I will check it out, but it was a reference to an old Simpsons joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhmtXpWsAdU
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by prometheus76 2y ago
What anagrams does it produce for "Jeremy Irons"?
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by prometheus76 2y ago
This is an excellent and insightful article, but it feels like it was speech-to-text and the author didn't take the time to clean it up before posting it. It's a little distracting.
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by prometheus76 2y ago
It's very similar in the natural gas industry. The "dumb" pigs are a piece of foam that is shoved into the pipe at the "pig launcher" and they use air pressure to push the pig through the pipe, where it is then caug
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by prometheus76 2y ago
And if you have hard water, stainless steel will still oxidize (rust).
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by prometheus76 2y ago
What you are talking about here (and you articulated it well), reminds me of The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist. If you haven't read it, I think it would connect a lot of dots for you and I think you would find it very int
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by prometheus76 2y ago
Their content policy is basically don't say anything illegal (inciting violence, etc.) and no porn. Their stance is that porn images are not speech.
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by prometheus76 2y ago
I disagree with the part where you say "complex systems can be reduced to smaller and simpler ones where making a decision doesn't have to mean unleashing a cosmic horror." That's the whole problem with reductionist thin
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by prometheus76 2y ago
Have you ever seen Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia? I haven't seen the movie, and the original poem it's based on is in French, so I only have seen it in the Disney form. That being said, it's the perfect analogy for
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by prometheus76 2y ago
Yes, a robot has reality. Of course it has reality, especially if it can punch you in the face. Does it have a mind? That's a different question. Do you believe that all humans share a human nature?
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by prometheus76 2y ago
I understand that land can change levels over time due to magma. What is harder for me to understand is land doing so in a uniform way that maintains a flat floor and leaving intricate mosaic patterns intact. Especially when you take into a
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by prometheus76 2y ago
How do you account for someone else's unproven reality punching you in the face?
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by prometheus76 2y ago
I don't anything about "bradyseism", but I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around it. From the article: "Due to bradyseism, a geological phenomenon in which the ground sinks or rises due to pressure changes under
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by prometheus76 2y ago
And that goes back to the question I asked above: are you talking about "what is real" from a philosophical "realism" point of view, or from a philosophical "nominalism" point of view? Realism posits that objec

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