warrenpj

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by warrenpj 6y ago
How can we know if something has yet to be explained, or is in fact inexplicable? Obviously, we can't. To declare that something is inexplicable is equivalent to saying it's supernatural. Naturalism is the philosophy that everythi
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by warrenpj 6y ago
Quoting Wikipedia: >In Buddhism, the term anattā (Pali) or anātman (Sanskrit) refers to the doctrine of "non-self", that there is no unchanging, permanent self, soul or essence in phenomena. https://en.m.wikipedia.or
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by warrenpj 6y ago
I don't see the distinction. The context is >computers are not people or jews Jews are a subset of people.
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by warrenpj 7y ago
My understanding is that young people are at lower risk of severe symptoms, but they can still get infected and transmit the virus to others.
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by warrenpj 7y ago
I read the privacy policy before using it. I guess it doesn't upload anything. Is it naive to trust the privacy policy stated here? https://github.com/noahlevenson/stealing-ur-feelings/blob/ma... > Th
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On the Danger of Puzzles(threadreaderapp.com)
2 points by warrenpj 7y ago|1 comments
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by warrenpj 9y ago
The phrase "Multiverse" has become overloaded. Max Tegmark thinks that there are at least four different kinds of "Multiverse", which he organizes into levels. This article corresponds to level 2: post-inflationary bubbl
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by warrenpj 10y ago
An obvious use case for this API is to allow native games that use Vulkan to be ported to the Web without a proprietary abstraction layer. (The abstraction layer would be in the emscripten standard library rather than the game engine.) But
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Not ‘Lone Wolves’ After All: How ISIS Guides World’s Terror Plots from Afar(nytimes.com)
9 points by warrenpj 10y ago|0 comments
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by warrenpj 10y ago
> To the best of my knowledge, mainstream quantum mechanics assumes continuous spacetime, so the argument that the primary reason it can't be reconciled with general relativity is continuity seems pretty specious to me. Your critici
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by warrenpj 10y ago
There was a post here two weeks ago discussing this exact problem. [1] It starts by explaining Democritus' reasoning that matter must be made of discrete atoms. The main point of the article is that a similar logic applies to the futur
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by warrenpj 10y ago
The phrase "both in-person and around the globe" is ambiguous. It could mean either that there were more witnesses in person, and more witnesses around the globe, or it could mean that the total number of witnesses, anywhere, was
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by warrenpj 10y ago
How would one convey the scientific method in a single sentence? What about the motto of the Royal Society: Nullius in verba; Take nobody's word for it.
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by warrenpj 10y ago
The Golden Rule is flawed, as the Wikipedia article explains in the criticism section. Your comment bought to mind this quote from Deutsch: "The Golden Rule (treat others as you would wish to be treated) has the same fatal flaw as futu
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by warrenpj 10y ago
Of course you would be touching a real thing. What else could you touch? However, on closer inspection (such as taking a bite) you would be able to tell that it wasn't a banana: the theory that the object is a banana is falsifiable. If
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by warrenpj 10y ago
What would it be like to touch "something", rather than mere electro-magnetic forces? Isn't this just a game of words? When we touch electro-magnetic forces, we are in fact touching solid things.
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by warrenpj 10y ago
> that there is no point of view, just local chemical storage of information. You have just restated the problem of consciousness, except as an assertion that it doesn't exist. The problem of reductionism is that it doesn't sto
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by warrenpj 10y ago
The problem with this language is that the very word "illusion" implies an observer. To whom is it an illusion? And, what are the properties of this illusion? Can we make artificial minds that are also suffering from the same illu
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by warrenpj 10y ago
This seems suspicious to me, like you're playing a game with words that I'm not able to precisely identify. Isn't this conflating objective reality (which we can only theorize about) with objective knowledge about reality (wh
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by warrenpj 10y ago
What other personality traits are correlated with political ideology? Are these studies worth taking seriously? For example, according to the (corrected) study [1] conservatives are higher in "social desirability and neuroticism",
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by warrenpj 10y ago
If the amount of computation that can be done is finite, then subjective time is also finite. (And vice-versa if the amount of computation is infinite.) What does infinite time mean in a universe where nothing happens? I hope I live to see
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by warrenpj 10y ago
There is "Quirk" by Craig Gidney, a Quantum Circuit Simulator. http://algorithmicassertions.com/quirk
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by warrenpj 10y ago
I think this is a great question. I was vague on this as well but I found this site after a quick search [1] A gene is a code for making a specific protein. Each gene is a sequence of three-letter "words" called "codons"
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by warrenpj 10y ago
Assange isn't a UK citizen: he is Australian.
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by warrenpj 10y ago
The fuel which is being burned has a higher specific energy than pure carbon, (compare the specific energy of natural gas with coal [1]). The chemical process is methane -> pure carbon with CO2 as an intermediate state. Of course you&#x2
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by warrenpj 10y ago
A one-time password system should also have a second token that was sent to the browser as a cookie over SSL. When the link is clicked the browser sends both tokens (the cookie and the OTP) together. The password is only valid for one brows
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by warrenpj 10y ago
The best security that an individual can get from passwords is clearly achieved by using a password manager and generating a unique random password for each site, and changing high-value passwords periodically. (It's arguably already i
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by warrenpj 10y ago
Joscha Bach recently said something similar. [1] A society that provides a basic income may also need an ethic that encourages not-for-profit activity, creativity and community involvement. The "Universal Job" is just to be a heal
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by warrenpj 10y ago
IPFS reflects the truth of the public internet (and public speech/media in general): With IPFS, and any other internet technology, you can choose to stop sharing data with others, but you can't force other people to stop sharing c
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by warrenpj 10y ago
Would it be an accurate analogy to say this is why stars in the night sky appear the same size (point-like), but vary in brightness?

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