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by s_weber 2y ago
You can find more "then and now pictures" (rephotography) on re.photos. It has an archive of around 3000 pictures from around the world. (I developed the website as a final project during my studies. It's a bit dated but stil
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by s_weber 3y ago
I seem to be missing something here. Which expressions are you referring to as being political jargon, and why? "Multicultural"?
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by s_weber 3y ago
I guess the same could be said about capitalism, too. The vision of a society that achieved minimizing exploitation of its members and turned it into a much more cooperative system is quite beautiful, I would say. The historical reality of
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Ask HN: Details on 04/2021 DigitalOcean data breach?
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by s_weber 4y ago
Memory - in my opinion - is not something that's inherent to consciousness. Rather, it is just another input that can be used by the computation. I don't think I came up with my own definition here. What I am talking about is the
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by s_weber 4y ago
I'm not quite sure I'm following you, sorry. > Did I create a second consciousness in my mind called ChatJ? Or where does it live? If you executed the same computation that would give rise to consciousness in another substrate,
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by s_weber 4y ago
I think the absurdity might just stem from the different timescales involved when comparing human consciousness to the "paper consciousness". The differing timescales would make it difficult for us to communicate with or even comp
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by s_weber 4y ago
I agree that this would be absurd. But you only arrived at this conclusion by equating consciousness and its content/input. Why would consciousness have to be a non-pure function in your opinion? I think that consciousness might be an
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by s_weber 4y ago
The Apple TV does this (reversing and turning on subtitles temporarily) if you ask Siri something along the lines of „What did they say?“.
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by s_weber 8y ago
Shameless plug for a project I am involved in: re.photos [1] is a collection of then and now pictures (also called rephotography [2]) created by the platform's users. It provides an interface to filter the pictures (e.g. geographically