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by raducu 5y ago
> On the contrary, kings and lords were acutely aware of how much land they had and devoted much of their energy to amassing more. Just because I want more of something, it doesn't mean that something is scarce, human desire is infi
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by raducu 5y ago
A lot of those people bid because interest rates are so low or even negative
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by raducu 5y ago
There are countries filled with idiots,like my lovely Romania where 70% of people don't want to get vaccinated, and we have to sell/donate millions and millions of doses.
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by raducu 5y ago
Slanic Prahova salt mine, you can look up pictures online, but the scale, sound effect and chilling effect are lost.
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by raducu 5y ago
Thinking about death, as in complete anihilation is something both awe inspiring and frightening to all, isn't it? I recently visited a salt mine/museum; as soon as I entered the enormous chamber with the low-rumbling noises, bea
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by raducu 5y ago
Because regular sugar won't make you obse?
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by raducu 5y ago
I thought it was an (artificial) orbital ring.
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by raducu 5y ago
Qualia is not meaningless because we are nothing without it. Take sensations away and you turn into a vegetable in a couple of hours -- see solitary confinement, isolation tanks and so on.
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by raducu 5y ago
We know that computers are absolutely not the kind of machinery to produce sensations. We know non-biological organisms don't produce qualia. We know it involves chemical reactions, because we can change qualia with drugs.
460.
by raducu 5y ago
There is no need for a "soul" to produce qualia. You just need biological machinery and computers are not biological machinery capable of producing sensations. The phenomena itself is not the same as the description of the phenome
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by raducu 5y ago
Also, sensations and feelings are not a logical/mathematical byproduct of the neurons; no matter how "well" you simulate "neurons", feelings and sensations will not emerge.
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by raducu 5y ago
Sensations cannot be produced, no matter how many neurons you simulate. We can only model certain phenomena we deem important, but who can really say? I'm happy with "less than human" simulations, in fact, I'd be disgust
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by raducu 5y ago
Sorry for my limited knowledge of GPT, but isn't it limited by the training data set, like all other models?
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by raducu 5y ago
Somebody so pretentious to claim he doesn't "believe" HIV causes AIDS should be inoculated with HIV and settle the debate.
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by raducu 5y ago
That is soooo easy to say and extremely hard to do. "Just choose to respond in a different way than you would respond and pull yourself up." I've recently started taking a stimulant for ADHD and while it kind of sucks for foc
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by raducu 5y ago
What do you mean by Oculus never took off?
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by raducu 5y ago
I vaguely remember theanine helped me sleep. I've had bad sleep forever, but since I've started concerta, my sleep is worse than ever. Guess I should give theanine another shot.
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by raducu 5y ago
The model's state is not the same thing as the model and even though it's 99% the case, the model in MVC should not be an anemic model.
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by raducu 5y ago
MVC is older than 3 tier applications and saying "model=database" makes me cringe and squirm, but at least I know they do a lot of CRUDs :)
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by raducu 5y ago
So, when is this negative feedback loop supposed to kick in and save us from global warming and climate change?
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by raducu 5y ago
Well, everything has negative feedback loops, otherwise the universe would exoerience a second Big Bang, right? But is that statement reasurring in any way? No, because in between the limits of those feedback loops there's enormous pot
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by raducu 5y ago
But is biomass a permanent sink or just a temporary buffer? I mean every year we keep pumping more carbon into the atmosphere, but unless biomass turns into coal, it is just a temporary buffer for carbon, right?
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by raducu 5y ago
Yes, doing it poorly is exactly like that, I did it poorly every morning for 30 minutes out of rage, and then did it masterfully until dusk -- I only developed the skills out of necessity. Once you've wasted your anaerobic resources, y
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by raducu 5y ago
Yes and no :) Scything for instance is very labor intensive and it used to be payed like 3X hoeing, but we usually did it only once a year (you can cut the grass multiple time to produce a different kind of grass) as opposed to hoeing the c
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by raducu 5y ago
I didn't think it would turn out this way at the time, but I miss scything and hay gathering so much, it has such a spirituality to it. Nowadays, whenever I hear the whetstone touching a scythe in some remote region, my eyes well up.
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by raducu 5y ago
I sucked at algebra, and the math of physics until 7 or 8th grade, when geometry was introduced; I excelled at geometry and that completely changed my life, I later loved math.
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by raducu 5y ago
Yes, but in a lot of cases facial recognition/drug testing is done without a valid prior reason, just the office pulling the "I smell weed" crap -- there is no incentive for the police officer not to make up an unfalsifiable
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by raducu 5y ago
This must be satire. A CEO taking writing lessons and maybe trying too hard, I give it 8/10 satire.
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by raducu 5y ago
Among other stuff, it contributed to my BPD, of which I've been 75% cured (but I did have some 6 years of psychotherapy). I'm still unlearning the harsh/punitive internal voice, still dealing with people pushing my guilt butt
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by raducu 5y ago
The last bit fits the bill the most in his case -- he took it as a huge personal attack that I smashed the bike he bought, and the tough discipline he was raised in is why I labeled it as toxic masculinity.

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