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by pygy_ 6y ago
That is just not true. You can write semi-less JS modules, strict mode and ASI are orthogonal.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Melanin is deposited in the epidermis, vitamin D conversion happens deeper, in the blood vessels of the dermis.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
This makes way more giddy than would be appropriate if I were to meet them in person.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
The idea that animals are not conscious comes from religion, not science. The only conscious entity that I’m 100% positive exists is myself. If you reject solipsism, none of the traditional criteria that tell apart humans from animals (e.g.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
The ship of Theseus doesn’t help your cause here. I’m not the same person I was 5 seconds ago. The self is obviously mutable, which kind of makes sense as long as there is a continuity of consciousness. What puzzles me is the persistence of
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by pygy_ 7y ago
These Socratic games are fun, and I guess I get where you’re coming from. .. but that doesn’t really answer my question regarding subject persistence and the subjective continuity of identity. What emerges tomorrow when I wake up could be a
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Re. Flipping images I actually experienced it first hand. I live in continental Europe where cars are driven on the right side of the road. A few years ago, I spent a week in southwest England, with my car. Upon arrival, driving on the left
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by pygy_ 7y ago
It doesn’t (it could do a discrete leap forward in time). Still, why do I wake up as myself every morning? One of the papers linked in this thread discusses (lack of) object permanence from a QM perspective, I’d like to understand how subje
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by pygy_ 7y ago
That sounds plausible. Another issue I have with emergentism and other functionalist theories is that they don’t seem to account for the persistence of identity across consciousness discontinuities. Your consciousness sometimes vanishes the
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by pygy_ 7y ago
I think that my consciousness (that perpetual “now” we’re trapped in) happens in my brain based on information about the past state of the world. I know it isn’t a perfect rendition (see illusions, hallucinations, cognitive biases and othe
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Emergentism doesn’t explain qualia. You won’t be able to explain the difference between green and magenta to a blind person.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
There may be some consciousness in the rock. The gist of these theories is that consciousness is isomorphic to specific aspects of information processing that can be quantified.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
That is an interesting starting point. How do you set the bounds of a conscious entity though? Does the concept make sense in QM? How would it explain the persistance of identity across lapses of consciousness?
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by pygy_ 7y ago
The existence of the world, and of myself as a subjective being, are beyond reason. Understanding how either work provided they exist isn’t a priori unsolvable.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Manzotti’s account (as described in the article) ignores dreams, or the fact that directly zapping the brain elicits experience (e.g. magnetic stimulation of the visual cortex triggers colorful flashes known as phosphenes). Graziani’s appro
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by pygy_ 7y ago
There are theories that equate information processing (integration/differentiation) with consciousness. It maps well with what happens in your brain, where too little or too much functional connectivity maps to loss of consciousness (t
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Yes, I'm puzzled by your posts in this thread. It looks like you are alternating beween pushing a Nirvana-fallacy strawman (where "secure" is a binary variable and everything not perfectly secure is trash) and treating "
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by pygy_ 7y ago
I'm waiting for Google to productize Alpha Zero (or whatever its descendant is called nowadays) as a "C-suite as a service" thing for directors to play with.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
You can also use a lower frame rate for the foveal input. What peripheral vision losses in spatial resolution, it wins back in time.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
My point is that taste in music is vestigial since the invention of writing. Before that it was a selective advantage. Even if amusia (of which musical anhedonia is a subtype) was prevalent at the time, culture transmission operates at the
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by pygy_ 7y ago
TIL. Verse structure appears to have been widespread though.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Perpetuating it is not vital anymore. The civilization could most likely survive the abrupt loss of every piece of music poetry and painting ever created up to this point.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
It doesn't handicap them today. I think it would have handicapped them 4000 years ago. There is actual evidence for my theory BTW. Aboriginal folks in Australia had a tradition of using songs to describe itineraries. Antique poetry and
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by pygy_ 7y ago
My pet theory (which complements yours) is that it was, before the invention of writing, part of the mnemonic techniques used to perpetuate vital information. Other worthy mentions are story-telling/acting, poetry (rhyme and meter) and
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Hypothetically: the employer gave you a copy of the modified software (by having you modify it). He's bound by the license and so are you?
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by pygy_ 7y ago
We could even go up to 2x64bit floats for even more definition... Wait, that didn't make sense to you as a trichromat? Neither does your suggestion to a tetrachromat. For them color is a four dimensional space (tetrachromat literally m
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Specifically, the project has been plagued with poor welds and cracks in critical structural parts. That being said all I know about the project comes from the news on the French radio... What new regulations are you talking about?
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by pygy_ 7y ago
Since we're interested in the delta, even if it isn't even, it will not matter as long as the error distribution is constant during the whole experiment.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
The know-how seems to have been lost though. The latest nuclear power plant they've tried to build (the Flamanville EPR) is severely late, and the budget has ballooned to several times the initial estimation.
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by pygy_ 7y ago
1) Make a lot of imprecise measurements. 2) Average them. The more measurements, the closer the average will be to the truth.

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