telmo

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by telmo 5y ago
> There are monks that would say that with some practice, you would realize it's not. And they call that direct experience too. I am aware, and I do happen to maintain a practice of that nature. My question to these monks: who is th
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by telmo 5y ago
> What makes you think there really is a whole single consciousness? My direct experience of it.
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by telmo 5y ago
> Crude insult. Kudos if that was a deliberate joke.
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by telmo 5y ago
Yes, but the typical CEO/COO does not have to worry about their family becoming homeless if they lose their job. Let us not be disingenuous about the stakes here.
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by telmo 5y ago
We can do that, but it will just happen in your mind.
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by telmo 5y ago
Everything just happens in your mind. Anything else is metaphysical speculation.
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by telmo 5y ago
> or won't grow much I don't understand this idea that everything has to grow. Who cares if it grows or not, as long as the people who use it enjoy it?
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by telmo 5y ago
> black hat SEO crap Pretty redundant if you ask me: black hat, SEO and crap.
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by telmo 6y ago
I have a first person experience of the world. You probably do too. Everything that I know, including all of the science I have learned, all of the books I have read, all the music I have listed too, all of the people I loved and even this
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by telmo 6y ago
Indeed!
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by telmo 6y ago
Sure, but the hard part is explaining the first person experience of feeling the need to pee or, in other words, consciousness.
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by telmo 6y ago
I don't know if a glass of water is conscious or not, nor can I come up with a scientific experience to test such an hypothesis, so I remain agnostic on that question. In fact, I cannot even come up with a scientific experience to test
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by telmo 6y ago
This is a common attempt to rationalize away the hard problem of consciousness that I find to be an almost textbook example of "begging the question". What is a feeling? Well, it's a type of experience. Does a glass of water
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by telmo 6y ago
It doesn't (source: I'm Portuguese). It is just an often repeated cliché. What I would say is that Portuguese culture has a stronger preference for expressions of nostalgia than the average.
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by telmo 6y ago
I know of almost no human-like brain inspiration in current AI models. Current ANNs are similar to biological brains, but only in the sense that they can be understood as networks of threshold units. One can also understand most modern ANN
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Tubes and bubbles: confinement of YouTube recommendations(journals.plos.org)
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by telmo 7y ago
> We’re talking about a social rule here, not a legal one. Legal rules don't exist in a void, they usually originate from social norms. Of course, social norms evolve, and so do laws. > Is your family or community entitled to tel
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by telmo 7y ago
> It’s a minority view that is of little relevance today It's the majority view where I live (European Union) and it is also the law here, and there is little reason to think that this will change in the foreseeable future, so prett
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by telmo 7y ago
Sure, and that is besides the point. Liberal western democracies are not perfect, but they get a few things right and this is one of them. I believe that children are not cattle, and I would keep believing that even if 100% of everyone else
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by telmo 7y ago
> Families aren’t just federations of sovereign individuals. Kids are community property. Kids are nobody's property, and parent absolutely have the right to ignore the rest of the family as long as they observe the laws of the land
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by telmo 7y ago
For a lot of people, free software is about collaboration, not competition.
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by telmo 7y ago
This is brilliant. I particularly like Zeus.
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by telmo 7y ago
Yes, it all comes from the Latin "fenestram".
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by telmo 7y ago
> What the license says and what image the project presents can be very different. Pointing to the license and reasoning that nobody has legally promised anything contractually is not very useful. It is quite useful, because the license
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by telmo 7y ago
> If you offer code to the public – and present it as an active, dependable project – professional behavior is exactly what you implicitly promise and signed up for. If you can’t offer that (at any time, and for any reason), then you sho
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by telmo 7y ago
> Biology seems much more brute force in comparison. Biology is more decentralized for sure, but I wouldn't be so fast with calling it "brute force". One interesting feature of biological neural networks is the variety of