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by sjeohp 9y ago
... the Zuckerberg couture of Harvard geniuses... ... from an extraordinarily gifted family of geniuses... The writer is some kind of sycophant.
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by sjeohp 9y ago
Class =/= race|gender. Could be argued that race|gender equality distracts from class divisions that are far more ingrained.
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by sjeohp 9y ago
I only skimmed it but wasn't he just questioning the policy of positive discrimination? Or is there something else? Because that's a pretty mild question to get so upset about.
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by sjeohp 9y ago
No, I think his competitive strength is probably mental fortitude, but that's just speculation. We're splitting hairs now. The numbers tilt steeply towards toe-striking at the competitive end, because toe-striking has a higher tec
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by sjeohp 9y ago
> Meb Keflezghi, winner of both the Boston and New York marathon, that he's not built to run. He's a prime example of a heel striker [1], though slightly less prominent in his later years. Trained hard and overcame the limitati
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by sjeohp 9y ago
As a lifelong athlete the on-your-toes style of barefoot running is the best way to run. If you cannot run on your toes you are not built to run. There are rare heel-running sportspeople but running is not their competitive strength. Ove
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by sjeohp 9y ago
In that case what else is consciousness but the illusion? If the only known example is my subjective experience then what I call conscious experience is identical to the simulation of conscious experience. IE there's no distinction.
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by sjeohp 9y ago
Is it so clear? For one thing consciousness is not necessarily synonymous with the ability to reason. Observe your own consciousness; observe the generation of each individual thought and experience. Are you conscious of their origin or d
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by sjeohp 9y ago
The entire world banking system for hundreds of years was based on credit backed by gold, so it definitely can work. My only point was that this wouldn't equate to more btc in circulation, just more credit.
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by sjeohp 9y ago
You can give out credit backed by BTC but it's impossible to give out more actual BTC than you hold, much like gold, unlike fiat.
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by sjeohp 10y ago
I would draw a distinction between that kind of olfactory/territorial self-recognition and the kind suggested by this test which actually implies some kind of mental representation of the self.
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by sjeohp 10y ago
Not really since that's not an explanation of the results. The simplest explanation of the results is that ants have some degree of self-awareness.
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by sjeohp 10y ago
That is interesting. How do they test that?
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by sjeohp 10y ago
Self recognition is considered a big deal because very few animals that we know of are capable of it: most apes, some monkeys, dolphins, elephants, magpies, etc. Notice they also happen to be among the most sapient animals. In this case se
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by sjeohp 10y ago
By the time cordyceps fruits the ant has already climbed and died. There would be nothing to see before then.
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by sjeohp 10y ago
Methodology is important but given that (assuming the results are valid): - Ants ignore other ants behind clear glass but inspect their own reflections. - An ant with a blue dot on its head when shown its reflection will rub at the dot. - A
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by sjeohp 10y ago
> these species have plenty more brain calls than ants Much less complex societies though, for what it's worth.
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by sjeohp 10y ago
I agree about the journal but these are the authors: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?start=0&q=%22Marie-Claire+...
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Are ants capable of self recognition? (2015) [pdf](journalofscience.net)
77 points by sjeohp 10y ago|27 comments
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by sjeohp 10y ago
are you suggesting it can't?
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by sjeohp 12y ago
The two chains will fall out of sync before they're finished. Chance of all 12 proofs being completed at exactly the same time and broadcast to groups of identical computing power every step of the way is very small.
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by sjeohp 12y ago
Consciousness is more likely to be an emergent property than a fundamental component of a theory of everything. It is a property of systems of neurons; physical theories operate at a much lower level.
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by sjeohp 12y ago
> There is not a fixed state of each 'quarter' in each 'box'. They are truly not determined until one is resolved; Isn't that unknowable? And aren't both situations (fixed vs undetermined) effectively the sa