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by qsera 5mo ago
>what was here before I existed? This is no longer meaningful. It would be like a thing inside a painting on a paper asking "what was here on this paper, before this paper existed"? Space and time are illusions of consciousness
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by qsera 5mo ago
> those that are more useful. Oh it is useful. It answers questions like "why do reality exist". "who created it", "What was before it"...Or may be I should say it does not really answer them but makes the q
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by qsera 5mo ago
>that is, reality exists and consciousness is "painted" on top of that? Because it brings along more questions like "Why does the reality exist"? "Why does the reality looks like this, and not like something els
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by qsera 5mo ago
>Then if all conscious beings (lets say humans are the only ones for sake of argument) die, then existence ends. The starting idea is that there can be no definition of existence other than "something a consciousness can detect (dir
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by qsera 5mo ago
> its not an answer to any question It is. It is the theory of everything. > what is this "consiousness" in the end, which has in its nature, the production of all material reality to serve as a fixed causal basis for percep
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by qsera 5mo ago
You have fixed perception in your dreams also. See, you have this observation of subjective experience. One hypothesis for wher this come from, require only consciousness, and the second requires consciousness as well as a whole universe. A
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by qsera 5mo ago
The point is that all existence is built on top of consciousness. I understand your difficulty. It is hard to imagine the universe disappearing if all consciousness cease to exist the next second. But is that really hard? Don't everyth
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by qsera 5mo ago
>reality is all that which is extended in space and time You are missing the fact that "space" and "time" are also illusions painted on consciousness.
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by qsera 5mo ago
>Consciousness is a derivative, secondary phenomenon which is a measurement process occurring in the body of an ape Can you define existence without depending on or referring to consciousness?
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by qsera 5mo ago
>Basically it flipped the problem on its head. I thought it was me[1], but I don't remember making the "shared godhood" argument https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999867
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by qsera 5mo ago
> run it on skeleton crew with a ton of AI and get ultra rich... I don't get people who believe this. Why would an AI company provide a service that someone can sell at 10x the price, mostly unchanged? Why wouldn't the AI comp
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by qsera 5mo ago
India is doing what exactly?
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by qsera 5mo ago
When I really want to do your workflow, here is what I do. Add all the debugging print statements and commit them separately in another branch. When I want to include the debug statements, I just cherry-pick the commit with those things. Th
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by qsera 5mo ago
1. Not a very good reason. Some projects might have slow CIs. Some projects might not have a CI at all. Some project's CI might not be checking everything (front end for example).. 2. Because people make mistakes. You might think you a
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by qsera 5mo ago
>turds floating down the Thames Dude, what are you saying? Just boil the water and you are golden. But you cannot remove the poisons in the industrial waste dumped into rivers by boiling or filtering. People are totally helpless now.
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by qsera 5mo ago
>dumb people I think these are not "dumb" people. Being nerd is cool now, there is a subset of population who want to be "nerdy/intellectual" without being genuinely interested in stuff and putting in work that i
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by qsera 5mo ago
>I mean, just no. What exactly are you claiming? Environmental pollution was more 300 years ago than it is now?
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by qsera 5mo ago
People make this claim but it never made sense to me. How do you know the version that you are committing is buildable if you never tried building with it? And if you tried building with it, you can just do `git add .` or `git add -u` at t
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by qsera 5mo ago
Yea, I hope she has the reality denying drugs that you appear to be on...
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by qsera 5mo ago
I think we are on that trajectory, yes. And a huge contributor is the perception that it is OK, because we have advanced medical procedures for them...for who can afford them. So capitalism/consumerism makes them sick (indiscriminately
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by qsera 5mo ago
>just disagree that more people are sick now.. There are more sickness inducing things in air, water and food. And it is not slowing down. We are adding more and more of it..Look up "Regrettable substitution", and that is exact
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by qsera 5mo ago
Traditional action movies: Turn off your brains and have fun. Christopher Nolan movies: Turn off your brains, and at the same time feel intellectual/smart!
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by qsera 5mo ago
>But to compare modern medical care and nutrition to even 100-200 years ago and say it was better in the past is quite... insane. No one is saying that though. I am saying that if the price for that is that everyone is more sick, the
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by qsera 5mo ago
>Grab a coin right now, try to call the result. If you fail, your child dies before age 10. And today's reality is that the child would not die, but with a similar chance (may be not right now but in the near future) will have some
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by qsera 5mo ago
What? we don't have sickness now? Or an ever increasing amount of sickness? We now have kids with diabetes now! Childhood cancer anyone? We don't have Dysentry for kids, but we have diabetes, and cancer for them now. They can now
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Bad idea..
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So using your perfectly working and well adjusted mind, you can only imagine a single kind of "slavery"? Would it have helped if I said "bondage" instead of "slavery"? I think so, because you seemed to have lat
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by qsera 5mo ago
>I would love to see the whole trilogy filmed. Just hope that it is not Christopher Nolan.
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>If you think they can’t do logic and reasoning, can you provide examples of specific math or logic problems that you think a frontier LLM can’t do? When a thing can "solve" a complex math problem without having the ability to
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by qsera 5mo ago
>casually describe the number of their siblings who didn’t survive until adulthood and the number of their childhood friends who died working hazardous farming jobs at young ages. That is the point though. Most of the atrocities of moder

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