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by themgt 11y ago
Thanks. I was avoiding going there but I'm glad you did. I agree the we've used a reductionist human vs. non-human framework as a crutch on which to build equal rights, and avoided the much more difficult questions of what rights&
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by themgt 11y ago
Wowzers. If I'm understanding that correctly, there are some people alive today whose last common male ancestor with the rest of humanity was a pre-homo sapien? Sheeeit. And yes, after the eventual upturning this evidence is going to f
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by themgt 11y ago
The link, I believe, seems weaker than once imagined. Here's a handful more papers/discussion adding to the complexity: http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-we-retire-60000-yea... Simple answer is I
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by themgt 11y ago
(as a layman) The original Out of Africa hypothesis had the "happy conclusion" that anatomically modern humans (AMH) evolved in a small group within Africa and then migrated out to populate the rest of the world, displacing (and n
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by themgt 11y ago
More support for the "Out of Arabia" scenario [1], the implications of which are enormous and potentially awkward. [1] http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2015/08/rethinking-dispersal-of...
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by themgt 11y ago
Agreed. They've got a fascinatingly lifelike, "through your own eyes" look. Which to me is more interesting since our perception of sight is actually a mental re-representation, not a raw view of the data streaming in from yo
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by themgt 11y ago
In a truly dynamic/metaprogrammable language, wouldn't this be equivalent to solving the halting problem?
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by themgt 11y ago
Yeah, there's actually a reasonable case that our initial historical fossil fuel burning (say, up to 1950, 1980?) saved us from a new ice age that was about to dawn. We unfortunately since then have pushed the dial way, way further, li
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by themgt 11y ago
If true, it's unlikely to persist for long. We know from paleoclimate data that both Greenland and Antarctica will significantly melt out w/ CO2 as high as it already is, much less any realistic peak level we could achieve.
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by themgt 11y ago
It's actually addressed in the paper; that's a real oversimplification of what people "hearing voices" are actually experiencing. Listening to people talk about their voices, one is struck by the variety of the human vo
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by themgt 11y ago
I find it fascinating to try to elucidate what exactly that "inner voice" we hear is, and why we consider it less of a hallucination than other "hallucinatory" voices. Because "I" control it? But then who is th
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by themgt 11y ago
If you mean the "getting worse" part, I believe the implication is that Google's lack of control over either Java the language, or the Android device ecosystem upgrades, means the future would likely see increasing fragmentat
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by themgt 11y ago
Worth trying to differentiate between "consciousness", which I think it's obvious cats and many other animals have, and the human "voice inside your head" / narrative self, which is much more a tower of babel b
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by themgt 11y ago
Exactly. So much of neuroscience is still in "unknown unknown" phase, and the idea of just doing this massive interdisciplinary project to simulate a full human brain, built on the pile of sand that is any sort of "theory&quo
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by themgt 11y ago
Nope, more like 12-8k years ago. Check out the Holocene sea level rise [1]. Jeffrey Rose's Persian Gulf Oasis / Out of Arabia theory is especially intriguing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_glacial
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by themgt 11y ago
Mermin put it perhaps most succinctly, that reality is "correlations without correlata", or as Ron Garret coined, the "zero-worlds interpretation"[1] It also makes sense to me on a sociological level, that the way in whi
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Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa(dienekes.blogspot.com)
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by themgt 11y ago
I am a critic of a lot Steven Pinker says, but I still think this quote is dead on: "...Amok is a Malay word for the homicidal sprees occasionally undertaken by lonely, Indochinese men who have suffered a loss of love, a loss of money,
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by themgt 11y ago
Increasing probability that you are in fact a brain in a vat, part of an undergrad science experiment in the outerworld. I mean, more seriously I am pro-choice, but do we draw a line somewhere? "The main thing missing in this model is
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by themgt 11y ago
This is excellent. Interview going over more here: https://scientiasalon.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/lee-smolin-an... "As Roberto Mangabeira Unger and I argue in our new book The Singular Universe, the most
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by themgt 11y ago
Right, good point, since it'd effectively be the hashrate making decisions, not "one user one vote", which is maybe not really workable in a standard blockchain system.
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by themgt 11y ago
Best explanation of how this will work is on their site: "By mining with Bitcoin XT you will produce blocks with a new version number. This indicates to the rest of the network that you support larger blocks. When 75% of the blocks are
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If Intel and Micron's “Xpoint” Is 3D Phase Change Memory, Boy Did They Patent It(dailytech.com)
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by themgt 11y ago
The data we have has been evolving very rapidly over the last few years, but in general, it would appear to support these conclusions. If they'd thrown in a guesstimate on possible massive arctic permafrost/clathrate methane leaks
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by themgt 11y ago
As big of dicks as these researchers are, I just have to say, to anyone out there working on software to run cars, airplanes, robots, other mobile vehicles ... some day, within the next 5 or 25 years, it's pretty likely some nut job is
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by themgt 11y ago
"You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine." - Tim Minchin This quote used to really sum up my opinion, but the more time I've spent growing and eating and researching a variety
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by themgt 11y ago
Except, I think this is actually somewhat an example of what the author is saying, because when I click around links: * Support * Guides * Login * Blog are all outside the SPA, and some appear to be MPA apps. And perhaps once I logged in th
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by themgt 11y ago
I would say overall the situation looks ... not great, in the medium term. "Perhaps more striking than the probability numbers is that we can now say that we have already gone longer without an earthquake than 75 percent of the known t
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by themgt 11y ago
Last commit "Hiding video for final update since it didnt help" https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension/commit/ba6... Wouldn't it be possible to have most of this functionality in a c
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by themgt 11y ago
For a spaceflight revolution? 'The design comprises a single combined cycle rocket engine with two modes of operation.[4] The air breathing mode combines a turbo-compressor with a lightweight air precooler positioned just behind the in

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