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by skosch 6y ago
> political dialogues That sounds lovely. Fake news (the actual kind), name-calling, absurd conspiracy-theorizing, memes that remove all nuance from complex issues, botnets that amplify anti-science/anti-intellectual nonsense ... ar
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by skosch 6y ago
Just because it's possible in theory doesn't make it a good idea. In org-mode, anything that isn't plaintext is quite painful to set up and to maintain, at least until you've memorized two dozen arcane key chords. I woul
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by skosch 6y ago
There is org-roam, and it's getting better by the day: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam
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by skosch 6y ago
Perhaps you find the reversed gif helpful: https://imgur.com/a/hwzePnS
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by skosch 6y ago
Fairness isn't an end in itself, but unfairness can cause people to revolt, which then leads to more suffering. It's just a matter of how you weigh such considerations: https://www.utilitarianism.net/types-of-utili
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by skosch 6y ago
A year after you leave the job, your team is told to build a new auth backend against the database, using a different bcrypt implementation. They just know to use bcrypt, but not about your truncation hack. The deployment is a success. Two
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by skosch 6y ago
It's not necessarily the same thing as proving things about consciousness. The two could be orthogonal. If qualia arise only in particular configurations of physical substrate, then it might be possible for flatworms to have qualia but
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by skosch 6y ago
Is physicalism the problem? My understanding is that physicalism is still in good standing – at least when it comes to the conscious experience of qualia. (The concept-of-self encoding obviously doesn't require a physical substrate.)
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by skosch 6y ago
He (mostly) retracted this a week later: "Last links post I included tech company Triplebyte in the shame list for refusing to let employees switch to work-from-home, then firing them. A representative of Triplebyte contacted me and as
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by skosch 6y ago
Many problems require lots of huge matrix multiplications—think simulations of physical systems, i.e. weather systems or molecular interactions, or numerical optimization.
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by skosch 6y ago
I have found that the key to getting the dough really stretchy is the autolyse part: first mix ~⅔ of the flour/yeast with all of the water to make something like a pancake batter, stir for a few minutes, and let that sit for at least 2
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by skosch 6y ago
That's clever, I like it. Not sure if something like this exists for Linux, but using compose keys is standard—e.g. to type å, I hit (in sequence) RightAlt, a, o.
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by skosch 6y ago
No need to be so smug, he says exactly that in the article. Take another look and read the section "Why This Universe? The Relativity of Rules".
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by skosch 6y ago
> But I’m not convinced why these graphs have to be generated by a single rule. Wolfram claims that they don't need to be; on the contrary. Take another look at the last section of the article.
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by skosch 6y ago
Yes. Superdeterminism does away with the observer as a separate thing, so the question of free will doesn't even come up. Everything is just one evolving system.
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by skosch 7y ago
The one quibble is that computationalism – the idea that experience is simply what some kinds of computation feel like from the inside, regardless of the substrate – may or may not be correct. It could be that qualia can only arise in syste
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by skosch 7y ago
This builds on the theory of "predictive processing". There are a few key people in the field; Karl Friston, Andy Clark, a few others – lots of rabbit holes to go down.
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by skosch 7y ago
0.5% is a textbook number, not the sorry-the-hospital-is-full number, which has in some places been closer to 5%.
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by skosch 7y ago
This is very exciting. To a computer scientist, superdeterminism seems like the most elegant solution to most of the current problems in physics. But it has always been firmly out of the mainstream, perhaps because it runs directly counter
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by skosch 7y ago
Sure, you are free, but that you is precisely those electrons in "your" brain, nothing more and nothing less. So all there really is is electrons flowing in predictable ways, predictably choosing chocolate or strawberry. Where
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by skosch 7y ago
I've been partial to superdeterminism for a long time, but I have no idea how one would go about testing it. In fact, it seems as unfalsifiable as many-worlds or other theories. Do you have a suggestion?
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by skosch 7y ago
Unless ... there is no observer at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
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by skosch 7y ago
That's probably because Android isn't listed separately.
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by skosch 7y ago
Their FAQ says that they don't (currently) use cookies, but it also includes the sentence "Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure", so they could still do some
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by skosch 7y ago
Don't worry: Tononi (and, by extension, Koch) have thought about IIT much more than the author of this article. You are correctly pointing out the conflict between computationalism ("consciousness is what certain computations feel
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by skosch 7y ago
Yes, but look at how those $91M break down. Almost all "actual" expenses (including hosting) went down from last year, but the salaries continued to grow by several million, as they do every single year. I love Wikipedia, but I&#x
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by skosch 7y ago
The amount of data is growing superlinearly while their resources (probably) aren't, so a dropping price for storage is currently allowing them to keep up (if just barely so).
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by skosch 7y ago
It's difficult to argue that this isn't at least a big part of the problem. The mathematically ideal solution may be something close to Partial Common Ownership[0]: you self-assess what your property is worth, and you get taxed ba
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by skosch 7y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right – but more importantly, Project Veritas deliberately uses lies and deception to obtain its footage, which it then edits to remove context. That crosses a line far beyond run-of-the-mill reporting bias.
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by skosch 7y ago
His website contains gems like "Things got political in June 2017 when Google deleted "covfefe" out of it's arabic translation dictionary in order to make a Trump tweet become nonsense." (No, covfefe doesn't me

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