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by trevyn 7y ago
I support this, but offer a word of caution: When we did a Friendsgiving, word got out and friends invited friends and we ended up hosting about 100 people. It was chaotic fun, but also a big lesson. ;)
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by trevyn 7y ago
Or maybe it’s acausal — some fires burn brighter, but they know that they will die sooner.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Sadly, it hasn’t really been a great decade for human dignity.
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by trevyn 7y ago
> If a language technology is so bad that it creates a new industry to solve problems of its own making then it must be a good idea for the guys who want to make money. Oof.
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by trevyn 7y ago
I mean turning off the sense of intention or agency (i.e. “conscious” decision-making), as well as the sense of self (i.e. self-“consciousness”). There is still awareness of sensory inputs and memory of events, but there is no sense of maki
606.
by trevyn 7y ago
In my mind, once you strip down “I am” to “There appears to exist a repeating neural process that is creating a compressed embedding and record of sensory inputs”, it’s just not very mysterious or worthy of much further philosophical analys
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by trevyn 7y ago
I think this is a misinterpretation — superdeterminism says that there is no true randomness in the function, not that the function is of any other particular form. The excitement is from the possibility that the function may be very simple
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by trevyn 7y ago
I think “subjective experience” in the everyday human sense is something that we learn / are taught to have — we are taught as children that there is this thing called “me”, how it works, and how to put sensory experiences into its con
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by trevyn 7y ago
Wait, is MWI compatible with superdeterminism? That is, the sequence above seems to show that MWI is an effective way to calculate, but does not actually rule out superdeterminism underneath it — just like ordinary quantum mechanics is an e
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by trevyn 7y ago
Agreed. I think it becomes clearer when you start to look at the human dynamics of group belief systems, and the process of changing those beliefs and consequent turmoil. The fact is, we don’t have enough evidence yet to decide one way or t
611.
by trevyn 7y ago
Perhaps all forms of randomness are pseudorandomness of various quality levels, which turns out to be good enough? It would be the end of the current interpretation of what science means , but the process and results of science could
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by trevyn 7y ago
A thread to pull on: How does medicine work outside of developed countries?
613.
by trevyn 7y ago
Actual cost of bandwidth is approaching zero, fwiw.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Question: Does anyone decide to have children selflessly, for the explicit benefit of the unborn child?
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by trevyn 7y ago
Be aware: Unless you have very good connections, the psychedelic “LSD” you can get on the street today is likely not of the same chemical composition as the common LSD of 1985. It will still give you a psychedelic experience, but the type
616.
by trevyn 7y ago
How do you know the request is connected to violation of a law you agree with?
617.
by trevyn 7y ago
If you steelman the argument, there’s actually several reasonable alternatives, and this is the benefit of having the discussion: it pathfinds the way for people to get off the bus, and changes the narrative over time.
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by trevyn 7y ago
You should have a backchannel before you’re even in the system.
619.
by trevyn 7y ago
Don’t be fooled, both are slavery.
620.
by trevyn 7y ago
Probably not, because you can inject voltage in an effectively infinite number of physical locations. (For example, nondestructively, with RF.)
621.
by trevyn 7y ago
Wait, what? Where does one even go to get paid for a blood donation?
622.
by trevyn 7y ago
Catalina is not a security update.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Perhaps a change of perspective has the potential to reduce your level of amazement?
624.
by trevyn 7y ago
WordBot: Did you mean: “piqued”?
625.
by trevyn 7y ago
Maybe they’re just storing the 4th character in a reversible fashion. ;-)
626.
by trevyn 7y ago
> I’ll live like I’m immortal until I’m not Honestly, that sounds much more fun than living with a constant obsession over your own mortality.
627.
by trevyn 7y ago
Beware the perception of progress as an unmitigated good.
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by trevyn 7y ago
Welcome to the other side! :-) Life is good here.
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by trevyn 7y ago
This is going to be fun when we realize that all jobs are shit jobs. :-)
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by trevyn 7y ago
Ask it “what is the game data now?” in the background, obviously. (With appropriate training, of course.)

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