smokedetector1

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by smokedetector1 5mo ago
Im not being condescending when I say genuinely thanks for engaging in good faith and without being rude! This topic can make people quite rude, in my experience. I guess because it's talking about people's deepest beliefs of them
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by smokedetector1 5mo ago
even in that case I would have an LLM analyzing the news trigger a deterministic API call. I can't imagine the use case for this besides vibe-trading
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by smokedetector1 5mo ago
> EVERYTHING that exists is made up of molecules, that is what existence is This is a belief system which one does not have to believe in order to accept the findings of physical science. > I know I have consciousness, and I know I am
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by smokedetector1 5mo ago
> they don't understand it and therefore they fear it I feel this whenever discussion of consciousness comes up. Even though consciousness is not well understood at all (e.g. no scientific progress whatsoever on the "hard probl
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by smokedetector1 5mo ago
Really cool! Why are some things subtly different?
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by smokedetector1 5mo ago
I think youve missed the point which is that your objections still imply an observer. Your rudeness is unnecessary and I wont be continuing this conversation. Have a good day.
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by smokedetector1 5mo ago
Sorry my comment was unclear. My point is, the process of “making up a narrative” does seem to imply a subjective experience, doesnt it? My point is, the existence of the experiencer can’t be denied. Even if the experience itself is some ki
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by smokedetector1 5mo ago
Sorry, who make up an experience narrative?
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by smokedetector1 5mo ago
> How do we know all this qualia isn't just some sort of illusion, that we ACTUALLY experience something? I know what it means to have an experience that is illusory. For example, a mirage, or a drug-induced hallucination. What does
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by smokedetector1 5mo ago
Not trying to be a hater, but I'm not sure if I would download an app just for this, and I'm almost 100% sure my non-tech friends and family wouldn't. Is there a way to make this an add-on to another product that people are a
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by smokedetector1 6mo ago
That's fascinating. I think this has to be biological. When I call something blue I don't think it has to do with just what I've learned but also that the color feels more like deep blue than it does like deep green.
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by smokedetector1 6mo ago
The other week my wife and I were disagreeing over whether a house was green or blue. I was shocked when every passerby we asked agreed with her that it was green. I was absolutely 100% sure it was blue. Turns out according to this site, my
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by smokedetector1 6mo ago
I won't deny it takes giant leaps of faith. I think the questions are inherently unanswerable so any theory that's not in conflict with things we can know scientifically, and which doesn't lead to harming others, is as good a
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by smokedetector1 6mo ago
Not answerable != immaterial/nonmeaningful. I'd be happy to talk more as I am passionate about this. I think the idea that there is no soul is actually extremely dehumanizing, and involves someone essentially saying "I don&#x
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by smokedetector1 6mo ago
I don't mean to be insulting but, you don't seem to understand what the hard problem is. It is not "is the brain intimately linked with conscious experience?" I would agree we've made progress on that question. It i
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by smokedetector1 6mo ago
It's true that many things have yielded to science. And yet, what we discuss (the "hard problem of consciousness") hasn't. In my opinion, the burden is on you to prove that progress in other questions implies inevitable
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by smokedetector1 6mo ago
Here's something I don't understand about the argument that all conscious experience is some kind of illusion. An illusion necessarily implies an entity experiencing the illusion. So what's that entity? It can't be illus
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by smokedetector1 6mo ago
You'd be hard pressed to find a principled neuroscientist who is as confident as you are that neuroscience can explain consciousness
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by smokedetector1 6mo ago
The brain is like a sail thats catching the wind of the soul. The wind pushes and shapes the sail, and the sail limits the shape of the wind inside it. If the sail is in bad condition, it changes how the wind catches it, or prevents it from
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by smokedetector1 6mo ago
Safer why?
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by smokedetector1 6mo ago
This is a very unpleasant comment, consider deleting.
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by smokedetector1 6mo ago
This is cool but I'm confused - it says it generates the bones at "build time" not at "runtime." But you're calling this headless bone generator while your app is running, right? That sounds like runtime.
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by smokedetector1 7mo ago
I am not a fan of the democrats - I think they are corrupt and have in many cases given up on being democratic, totally beholden to their donors. That said, Trump is unbelievably obviously corrupt and doing immense, immediate, and obvious d
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by smokedetector1 7mo ago
this is such an unserious take. Insider trading is prevalent on both sides. But the brazen daily market manipulation done by this administration is different. If you dont see that you are willingly blind
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by smokedetector1 7mo ago
> There's absolutely nothing mysterious about human intelligence unless you refuse to give it a clear definition This begs the question[0] by assuming that it can be given a clear, measurable definition. A large part of the mystery
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by smokedetector1 7mo ago
> unless you believe in magic, it's only a matter of time until we reach the point at which machine intelligence is indistinguishable from human intelligence I find this flippancy about the greatest mystery in the universe extremely
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by smokedetector1 8mo ago
Somethings broken - the most expensive ball, "TaylorMade 2021 TP5x (3+1 Box) 4DZ" is listed as $169.95 for 1 ball. Clicking through, this is actually for 4 dozen balls, making the actual per ball $3.54
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by smokedetector1 10mo ago
love the idea of using the partner to personalize. kind of genius actually
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by smokedetector1 11mo ago
You cannot measure everything with numbers. Many things in life cannot even be ordered[0]. Lives are different. Yes, some are just worse/more challenging than others, but in general people and their experiences are wayyyyyyy too comple
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by smokedetector1 11mo ago
What you are describing is only one way of living a comfortable life. It is not an "objectively better" life than someone who has enough money to meet their needs and finds balance and joy in other places. For example, more fulfil

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