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by squibbles 6y ago
I think if you remove consciousness from the equation, identifying causality would be a reasonable response to why . However, there is an underlying assumption that causality actually exists. In that case, I think the existence of causalit
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by squibbles 6y ago
I find this dialog to be reminiscent of the controversy surrounding Wolfram's A New Kind of Science . Perhaps one could frame it as the theorists versus the pragmatists.
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by squibbles 6y ago
> The regulations also only apply to employees, and not independent contractors, problematic considering that by 2020, 40% of the US workforce will be made up of these so-called “contingent workers”. And that is a big problem. There is e
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Methanol fuel gives this tiny beetle bot the freedom to roam(sciencenews.org)
1 points by squibbles 6y ago|0 comments
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by squibbles 6y ago
That statement really intrigued me. Since I like goats, I had to know how to do this. Use ImageInstanceQ[image, object], where image is the image and object is "caprine animal". [0] [1] [0] https://reference.wolfram.c
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Covid-19 virus uses heparan sulfate to get inside cells(phys.org)
9 points by squibbles 6y ago|0 comments
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by squibbles 6y ago
I don't think the mass media is a reliable or accurate source for learning about or promulgating scientific findings. Most medical research is fraught with ambiguity and mixed messages, simply because of the phenotypic variance found i
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by squibbles 6y ago
US politics has always been interesting . There have been numerous energetic elections, contentious presidents, assassinations, and even a civil war. I suspect what we are seeing has nothing to do with politics, specifically, but rather is
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by squibbles 6y ago
> I think it is possible to build a better system from scratch, and there are likely space aliens that have such better systems. I respectfully disagree. Alien systems can be thwarted by inverting some bits. [0] I would not have believed
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Differences between open science and reproducability(doi.org)
46 points by squibbles 6y ago|20 comments
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by squibbles 6y ago
I don't know how near a collapse is, since catastrophes in systems tend to come as a surprise, not a gradual event. I do agree, however, that there is substantial evidence to suggest a collapse in the human population is inevitable.
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by squibbles 6y ago
One answer to "Why is this question..." is because we have defined it so. And why did we define it so? One could make an argument that notions of sets, counting, length, and so on are anthropomorphisms -- we project our bodies ont
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by squibbles 6y ago
I find the argument against anthropic arguments to be weak. * The terms life and intelligence lack formal definitions. * The predicate why lacks a formal definition. * The argument does not address the maximum number of possible confi
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by squibbles 6y ago
Science magazine [0] and Ars Technica [1] published readable overviews. The paper on the experiment regarding Wigner's friend paradox ("A strong no-go theorem on the Wigner’s friend paradox") was published in Nature Physics.
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by squibbles 6y ago
If you are interested in consciousness, then yes, Consciousness Explained is a worthwhile read. If your interest lies with sea squirts, then not so much. While I do not necessarily agree with Dennett's position in whole, I believe
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by squibbles 6y ago
"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn
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by squibbles 6y ago
The wolves eat the deer. The deer population collapses to the point that the food supply for the wolves cannot support the wolves. The wolves starve and the wolf population collapses. Without pressure from the wolves, the deer make a comeba
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by squibbles 6y ago
It is about money. High-level government employees used to retire and work for contractors that sold directly to the organizations the government retirees came from. That is called a revolving door and occurred with both military and civi
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by squibbles 6y ago
Please do not interpret this as political commentary, but I find it immensely amusing that the article illustrates that even fake news (an article generated by GPT-3) can itself be fake (the original text was edited significantly). >
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by squibbles 6y ago
Anarchism does not prevent tribes, warlords, organizations, or armies - it is the absence of such constructs. If anyone is truly interested in applied anarchism, look to Somalia [0] and try to make a difference there. It's not all bad
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by squibbles 6y ago
The let me tell you more tactic is intentional. Longer sales copy tends to sell more. That is, the length of the sales copy is positively correlated with the conversion rate.
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by squibbles 6y ago
Benevolent anarchism does not scale. The more pluralistic a population, the more differences of opinion and disagreement on principles. The rule of law is one way to cast multiple subjective experiences into a single objective framework.
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by squibbles 6y ago
VMS - Dying, dead, or reborn? For those who lament the loss of VMS, know that Windows NT carried on. [0] (By the way, did you know that WNT is a Caesar cipher for VMS?) Long ago I had my personal trials and tribulations with Unix. Fortunate
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by squibbles 6y ago
An encounter with law enforcement is not necessarily a straightforward exchange of facts. If someone is under suspicion, then law enforcement personnel will ask questions or give commands to see how a suspect reacts.
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by squibbles 6y ago
Why is the public discussion on maintaining the status quo, rather than on pushing the boundaries of astronomy. For example, NASA has proposed to build the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) on the moon. [0] [1] Does someone have a financi
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by squibbles 6y ago
From what the author wrote, it seems likely she was flagged as a person of interest. Perhaps her name was similar or identical to an alias used by someone else, or perhaps she looked very similar to someone on a watchlist. Automated systems
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by squibbles 6y ago
It is not that I do not trust Psychology Today, but that psychology is a messy subject. The articles in Psychology Today can perhaps give some insight into what is being studied in the field, but omits a vast number of details and nuances t
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by squibbles 6y ago
Translating the thought experiment to an actual physical experiment is something worth appreciating. A possible lack of absoluteness of observed events has implications for what observations may or may not be reconcilable using existing sci
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by squibbles 6y ago
This is an interesting topic, but Psychology Today is a poor quality source for serious discussion.
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by squibbles 6y ago
I don't know of an easy or economical way to prevent or discourage abuse of communications. For social communications, the main problem is: How do I find people I like or trust? That is a tough problem given constraints. For network co

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