ruthmarx

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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Exactly this.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> From that, I think it's clear that defining self-awareness relies on the definition of consciousness as opposed to the other way around. I don't think it moves us any closer to a definition of consciousness. The problem is co
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Sometimes. No, always. No exceptions. > No. Not even close. It's exactly equal because it's a category not a scale and certainly not a competition. Hard sciences are those that can be tested and verified. Biology, neurolog
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Making a decision either on impulse, intuition, or rational preferences. > Is it simply executing one of a set of possibilities? If you take such a general definition of free will, then a slot machine is manifesting it's free will
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> "Self-awareness with a theory of mind" doesn't account for qualia, Sure it does. "Self-awareness with a theory of mind" has sentience, i.e. the ability to process external stimuli via senses, as a base prerequi
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Well, that's because consciousness is an overloaded general term, we just need to use more specifics words. For example: > there doesn't seem to be any good definitions that include humans, Self-awareness with a theory of mind.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> There are people that don‘t have an inner monologue - I think it's more likely they do and just don't 'hear' it or 'verbalize' it.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> It also assumes materialisam is true. As it should until we have a better theory we can test.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I have no idea what they think they're contributing. I assume they are just young and see no harm in sharing something they thought was interesting. This fad will die out eventually since it's redundant and provides no real v
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
We have free will in either case. Whether or not our choices can be predicated is irrelevant.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
There is no illusion, and brain damage has no bearing on free will. Free will is simply you making a choice, that's it. If you want to argue about what 'you' means, feel free, but it doesn't really change anything here.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> how you square free-will and determinism (and subsequently consciousness) I've never seen this as an issue. Even if something is fated, it's still you making that choice. You ate whatever you ate for lunch yesterday. It'
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> It's uncomfortable to call out an obvious truth: We couldn't even compare. Funny, I don't see China as having any real chance in a hypothetical war. Numbers aren't everything.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> It doesn't seem plausible that the US can fight a long sustained war. It wouldn't be sustained. The US would cripple China very quickly to ensure it wouldn't be. > One of the big surprises out of the Ukraine war is th
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Piracy often is trivial.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> but by that logic nobody has conclusively seen the hole in the middle of a donut either. Not quite..we can see the donut hole very clearly, put things through it, measure it, interact with it. We can measure and observe and test it how
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> neurology or biology, often called a a "soft" science, Neurology and biology are absolutely hard sciences, just as hard as physics.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I don't need concurrency or multithreading, > ... > Context: I don't understand concurrency and multithreading. I get not needing it, but if you don't understand concurrency or multithreading how are you so certai
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> 'd like to see something in Android that gives an app file access with less access than "all files". SELinux has been able to solve that problem in Android for a long, long time now. Which is more appropriate, as you say
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
The author isn't really the one over-hyping it.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
This is a ridiculously over hyped vulnerability, the most over-hyped I've seen in a long time. Still, kudos to the author who found it, it's going to definitely be a career boost with all the world is ending headlines.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I think your point of view is overlooking the concept of loophole or more precisely, malicious compliance. I don't think I am, because even if the cookie popups were made with the genuine best intentions to adhere to the regulatio
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I did a search for “moral” in this thread’s history. I Well that's the wrong approach. I didn't say you kept using the exact word 'immoral', I said you were talking about the "immoral yet explicitly legal pract
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Though I hate analogies, but this is what this sounds like to me. The difference though is that selling drugs to kids is flat out illegal, no ifs ands or buts. Data collection is explicitly legal as long as regulations are followed, so
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> Sorry, this just makes no sense to me. You have a threat model that thinks Apple is a malicious actor and will interfere with the implementation of DNS resolution in higher level APIs because they "nanny" their users and deve
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
It really is that simple. It's bizarre the way people try to blame companies engaging in legal activities for doing something the EU specifically requires them to do.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> You keep saying that. How do you know? Because I find the position not to blame the EU so baffling and irrational that I was curious about the people who advocate that position. The first few times I checked the profiles it was very cl
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> What are you on about? Exactly what you say here: > the two times I replied to you responding to someone else --- > Honestly I didn’t even realise I was replying to the same person. I find that very odd, not to pay attention to w
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> What's not right? Giving up pervasive and invasive tracking and selling user data? Exactly. Abstaining isn't a light pattern. A light pattern would be doing the thing in a non malicious way. > GDPR, literally, is: if you u
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Low to be fair, it depends how hot the laptop gets, but usual around 800x600 or 1024x768 and everything low quality. Not great compared to modern hardware, but not as useless as you were suggesting either. Can't play CS2 because of it

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