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by tpm 10y ago
It doesn't, but perhaps what many people are thinking is that in costructing more and more capable learning models, we'll get closer to what human brain does. It's not very likely, but hard to tell what will really happen. As
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by tpm 10y ago
Correct, it is named for accumulation of capital. However I don't know of any systems that are liberal (which is a nice feature) and democratic, without being also capitalistic. Maybe there some theoretical ones.
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by tpm 10y ago
The rising temperature and acidification of the oceans threatens their oxygene production. Climate change on land threatens oxygen production there. With falling oxygene production, oxygen in the atmosphere will not be replenished, and aero
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by tpm 10y ago
Liberal democracy requires the availability of liquid capital (and therefore capitalism), because with only illiquid types of capital (land, social ties etc), there is no freedom and mobility. Other types of democracy may not require it, bu
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by tpm 10y ago
The economy has been growing, but the growth was not sustainable for a number of reasons - after 20 or so years of 'communism' the planned economy started massively missallocating investments, the technical expertise carried over
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by tpm 10y ago
Well there was btdigg, a DHT search engine, but it stopped working a few weeks ago. In theory, everyone connected to DHT could run queries himself, however I am not sure there is software to do that comfortably.
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by tpm 10y ago
No, I did not say that, and did not mean that, they just have to stop the messages from spreading massively (right or wrong does not really mean a lot now). Trouble is, social media is new, it is very effective in spreading a message - any
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by tpm 10y ago
Hate speech is already illegal in most of EU (you can go to jail for it). Trouble is, this was not enforced properly on social networks, they went "we don't care" and law enforcement didn't know what to do. This became a
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by tpm 10y ago
and also programs that do the reverse: http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05396
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by tpm 10y ago
The measures that were taken to keep people "safe" were definitely a factor. In psychedelic circles it's called 'set and setting' and it is an integral part of the experience. Under the influence of psychedelics, on
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by tpm 11y ago
Serotonine depletion, or something like that. It's a bad idea to use MDMA frequently anyway because of its neurotoxicity.
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by tpm 11y ago
A hint may be somewhere here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
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by tpm 11y ago
Do read Stanislas Dehaene: Consciousness and the Brain
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by tpm 11y ago
I never had bad feelings on MDMA, or afterwards. No comedown either, on the contrary, plenty of afterglow. The interpersonal variability of these experiences is amazing.
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by tpm 11y ago
It's called liposuction. Don't do it, it causes permanent damage to your body, as the fat cells are not replaced and that is a problem when fat has to be stored again in the future.