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by randallsquared 4mo ago
The contrast between "Calvin and Hobbes was threatened with widespread cancellation." and "only fifteen of the 1,800 papers running Watterson’s strip threatened" is quite stark.
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
> It looked like the syndicate’s warnings to Watterson were well-founded: Calvin and Hobbes was threatened with widespread cancellation. Oh, that sounds bad. > It says something about the popularity of Calvin and Hobbes — not to me
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
Still possible! There's comma.ai waiting to take your order if you have a compatible car.
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
> No, there's a lot more to it. I never saw this kind of fuss about 2000 I roll to disbelieve! We had hype about the year 2000 throughout the 20th century, and some earlier! When we were IN the year 2000, it was quite common in my
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
AI can use purchase orders, email, bank accounts, and phones just as a human can. What "human control"?
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
> Measurement is third-person by definition, and consciousness is irreducibly first-person. So no instrument, however precise, can ever close that gap. In a "logical proof" sense, yes. However, that doesn't stop us from
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
> Sure, so? We did that quite a few times in the past, that's how we dont' still have Pharaohs. I'm not sure I'd agree. Mostly those in power in the past were overthrown by outside actors or failed gradually without
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
> one party sound incompetent or deceitful Based on the parent comment, I think it's more "one party sound incompetent and the other deceitful". There was a senator who used to say that American politics was a contest be
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
You asked in what way I was using "sense" differently from "has a subjective experience of". My reply was that I was using it to effectively mean "collect data about". I don't have much interest in arguing
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
I don't know with complete certainty that there IS a distinction, to be sure, since I don't know how consciousness/subjectivity/personhood works. Every previous grouping of entities we've accepted as people have sai
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
TIL about the proliferation of menu item icons in Tahoe. Perhaps I missed the outcry when Tahoe came out, but I got around to upgrading to it only a couple months ago, and this was not a change that stood out.
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
> The subject experiencing those objects is the exact same subject allowing us to experience "human-specific" objects. That's the question, is it not? We don't know how that "subject" is implemented in hum
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
If I was certain that bats had a subjective experience of the world, it would mean I think bats are people, just non-human ones. That's what being a person is: a subjective experiencer. Since we don't understand how personal exp
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
In the first phrase, thermostat can substitute for "brain". A thermostat has a sense of (or "method of collecting data about") something not in the thermostat, and can react to changes in data reported by that sense, and
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
> I assume we all believe that bats have experience. Humorously enough, earlier he refers to those who believe that non-human mammals are not all conscious people as "extremists", so it's clear he understands this is not
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
> Do you suppose that, for example, insects are not conscious? Not the OP, but: since there is no testable theory of consciousness, yet, I can't be sure, but my current assumption is that insects are not conscious, in the sense of
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
Possibly it continues to stream frequently enough to be considered a contributor to Prime Video? Not sure if you can stream it other places, but if so, those fees would be continued revenue that might disappear if the reaction to a new show
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
I'm on season 6 of a rewatch with family right now, and I will say that one of the things I had not remembered was just how much of the time brute force IS the right answer in this show.
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
It wasn't a reboot, but a continuation. That doesn't mean it would have been good, of course (cf Universe), but better than a reboot.
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
Joseph Mallozzi says it's not, and he was involved with the new series development. I suppose Amazon is making enough from the concept that they aren't interested in selling it.
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by randallsquared 4mo ago
That collective effort resulted in something very impressive, but there are lots of achievements in the present day which are, organizationally, at least as impressive, and which do not seem to require hierarchy (though they include various
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
If they aren't doing this role, then each of the 10 people they directly manage will end up doing 20% of it, and there will be another 30% that no one does and causes large but untraceable-to-this-absence issues in a year.
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
When you put it like that, you make it sound reasonable! The house being collateral for the debt seems in a blurry way to be "the house owes the debt".
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
> You should think what makes you feel they didn't make an effort? Long experience. There are a lot of people out there in the workforce who ask their boss or a more senior coworker a question the moment they think of it, with no
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
The primary way that Google's AI Overview appears in my life is having to correct the misapprehensions of older family who see the immediate answer on top of their search and just uncritically accept it. Based on that, I think it must
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
The best part of this flight was seeing the full reentry with no visible hot spots or burn through like we've seen on every previous reentry of Starship. Seems like they have the heat shields really nailed.
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
Some 20% of US billionaires grew up poor, or at least without well-off parents. 60+% were upper middle class or below. So, I think we can note that they've created enough value for the rest of us and deserve to keep the fraction of tha
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
From the standpoint of 1926, we built the better world and you're living in it. It's hard to imagine how much better off we all are, but it's not a law of nature, and with enough damage to markets and production, we can get b
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
We've built a lot of layers of social machinery on top of it, but looking at the behavior of animals, ownership predates humanity, let alone social convention. Coming at it from that direction, something can be private property only if
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
I'm a native speaker, and read it the "Wozniak gave a little cheer after" way at first, though the more likely meaning did occur to me immediately after. As for it making no sense, I differ. There are scenarios I can conjure

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