vinhcognito

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by vinhcognito 1y ago
I like to go with 'I asked my bot|chatbot'
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by vinhcognito 1y ago
To me, cars are a means to an end. And I can imagine a world without cars more easily than a world without software. Do you imagine that we just somehow evolve capabilities beyond it? or do we eventually produce universally perfect software
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by vinhcognito 2y ago
Less termination of life based on numbers or some version of (sentience * number of individuals)? I find it hard to believe the sheer number of individual insects killed during harvest could match the killing of one cow, calorie for calori
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by vinhcognito 2y ago
I honestly can't imagine Kagi being worse than Google. At minimum, Kagi lets me derank and ban domains I don't like.
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by vinhcognito 2y ago
Maybe theoretically but for our purposes doesn't the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem mean it's essentially lossless to our ears?
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by vinhcognito 2y ago
> I'd like them to imagine what would happen if after eating 2 or 3 pizza slices they'd still feel like their stomach is empty Even that is the generous interpretation. Imagine instead of just their regular (or lack of) hunger
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by vinhcognito 3y ago
Not much between a cockroach and a lobster though
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by vinhcognito 3y ago
> Wear clothes - I've definitely seen pigeons sport around a piece of bread like a luxury jacket. > Theorize - I always thought cats who look at a gap for a while before jumping are theorizing if/how to make the jump.
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by vinhcognito 3y ago
It's insane to me that this is a frustration I've had back maybe 20 years now and I still feel like there isn't a particularly great solution. My current iteration is just a "transfer" SyncThing folder that is on al
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by vinhcognito 3y ago
A movie is not just what story beats it contains. If that is all you consider a movie is, then I suppose you might as well just read the wiki summaries of every movie. But I wouldn't dismiss an entire form of complex expression becaus
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by vinhcognito 3y ago
My own moral duty in that case is rationalized quite simply with the thought that if I were in that position, I would want other people to offer me food.
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by vinhcognito 3y ago
Anyone with Aphantasia or are curious about it might like this fairly recent article that eventually gets into a theory of the mechanics of different cases of Aphantasia and what might be happening behind the scenes. Aphantasia: In search o
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by vinhcognito 3y ago
I've always had trouble with reconciling the jump from DNA to behaviours. These behaviours can be affected by a complex combination of genetics and epigenetic modifications leading to changes like modified neuronal patterning in the br
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by vinhcognito 4y ago
The teaching salary needs to be competitive with other jobs if you want to attract the right people. Why would any potentially great educator work in a completely unrespected field for no pay? Also, with higher wages comes increased intere