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by russdill 4y ago
Okay, so if I use the laws of physics to simulate a human brain, it will behave exactly like a human brain in the real world. Will it also be conscious and experience sadness?
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by russdill 4y ago
That doesn't change the question though. We don't know how many layers are beneath the known laws of physics. Who knows, one of them could be consciousness. Maybe it's turtles all the way down. They question remains. Can you
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by russdill 4y ago
Which necessitates that somehow, there's some law of physics important to operation in the brain who's effects aren't computable. Yes?
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by russdill 4y ago
No one has a good answer to that. But it's not necessary to answer that to conclude that whatever task a human can perform can be replicated by a sufficiently complex algorithm.
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by russdill 4y ago
I attempted to sidestep all of that by not discussing consciousness, the brain, or neurons in my follow-up at all. But instead, some hypothetical mathematical problem. I don't know, let's say the existence of a polygon of N sides
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by russdill 4y ago
You've spelled out quite well that there are things about our internal subjective experience we don't understand to a discomforting degree. But we understand really well the substrate from which those experiences arise. Imagine it
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by russdill 4y ago
The reducto adsurdium just seems to boil down to: but that makes meet uncomfortable.
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by russdill 4y ago
Or more succinctly, all the known laws of physics effect things in a way that can be simulated by sufficiently complex computation. The idea that there's something going on in a wet, warm l, mushy brain that has a macroscopic effect, a
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by russdill 4y ago
Really? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-09-21-mn-37499-... It's an empty promise anyway, there's a commission that was created for the sole purpose of preventing politicians from doing precisely
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by russdill 4y ago
"After we determine an account is spam, malicious automation, or fake, we stop counting it in our mDAU" The mDAU exclusion includes such accounts already. I think people (and Elon) use the term bot rather colloquially, so I don&#x
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by russdill 4y ago
Now, finally, the other Howard Johnson of high speed digital design fame can get his due.
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by russdill 4y ago
LA is working towards a 100% carbon-neutral power grid by 2035.
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by russdill 4y ago
You're replying to an article (and comment) that discusses disallowing new gas hookups. The article and a lot of the discussion does focus on cooking though. The amount of greenhouse gas emissions due to heating is not insignificant.
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by russdill 4y ago
Generating electricity with natural gas is not surprisingly more efficient than cooking with natural gas. Also, in California, less than half of the electricity is produced by natural gas.
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by russdill 4y ago
This doesn't just apply to cooking gas though
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by russdill 4y ago
I think you could easily reproduce the gas experience with a combination of induction and convective heating. It'd be more reliable and it would be easy to have a set temperature rather than needing the wait staff to periodically adjus
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by russdill 4y ago
Commercial induction woks go up to ludicrous power levels. I've seen 15 and 20 kW models online.
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by russdill 4y ago
Reversing the schematics for those appliances would have been a laughably simple exercise for any competitor.
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by russdill 4y ago
The shift to a focus on power consumption was already happening anyway without the iphone even on desktop. CPUs were already in the nuclear reactor territory as far as being able to produce as much heat per unit area
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by russdill 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
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by russdill 4y ago
It's really hard to argue that climate change isn't a component. The problem may still exist without climate change, that's an argument that certainly can be made.
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by russdill 5y ago
Maybe instead some equivalent of the stick shaker that indicates your controls are being overridden
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by russdill 5y ago
I feel like you're using that equation in a bit backwards way. If suddenly, everyone between the ages of 0 and 5 vanished, it would have a huge effect on the population, but at first take, zero effect on the GDP since presumably that a
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by russdill 5y ago
The funding game is a miserable slog, but people are in academia because they want to do their research. If they wanted to use their expertise to obtain a paycheck, there are typically much better opportunities to do so.
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by russdill 5y ago
It really feels like magic sometimes. When using IDA I always knew that I was working with assembly. With ghidra, once everything has decent names it really feels like I have a copy of the original source code. I used it for the Disney bb8
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by russdill 5y ago
Open sourcing the algorithm would be such a huge boon to those wishing to game it. Those with the sufficient compute resources could run billions of variations of Twitter activity to perfect their messaging to get it trending. It'd be
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by russdill 5y ago
I think there's two extremes here. One is the issue covered well above. There is a great deal of junk science that gets published. That is a problem and it does erode trust. But in some ways it's also how the sausage gets made, th
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by russdill 5y ago
It's listed on Amazon with the same specs.
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by russdill 5y ago
A nice side effect is you can feed to 1920x1200 and it will do the same downscaling.
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by russdill 5y ago
See also https://github.com/russdill/tunsocks Basically a kitchen sink for this sort of thing using lwIP for it's IP stack

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