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by westoncb 9y ago
Right, which if I accepted we wouldn't be having this conversation :)
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by westoncb 9y ago
Yes, I thought that part of the article was kind of funny: just because we admit an external reality that is supposed to imply there is no internal reality? Here's the one other part where he references subjectivity/qualia: > I
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by westoncb 9y ago
Hey gfodor, I actually do agree with your line of thinking all the way up to and including logic gates with qualia—however, when you say: > I'm don't think that is a sufficient argument to explain subjective experience, —I have
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by westoncb 9y ago
I'll also add where I see math fitting in: imagine some complex 3d object changing in time. Now imagine it's wrapped in a kind of net, like you see in 'wireframes' in computer graphics. If that complex 3D object is our u
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by westoncb 9y ago
Your brain doesn't experience computational processes any more directly through VR: VR works by sending controlled physical sensations to your senses using the same routes as when you ordinarily interact with the world.
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by westoncb 9y ago
> The fact remains that no entity can successfully prove to another entity that it has inner experience, so how would proving you have subjectivity to _your own mind_ work? If you are trying to 'prove' subjectivity, in the sens
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by westoncb 9y ago
It doesn't matter whether I also have it—as long as at least you have subjectivity/qualia, then it's a part of reality and must be accounted for.
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by westoncb 9y ago
I agree it's worth looking more closely at the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity, especially the mapping from the 'nearest' objective structure we know to various aspects of subjectivity. I think this could be
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by westoncb 9y ago
I read 75% of the article, until he'd made enough unfounded statements that there was no point continuing with his inferences from them. Also, his assertion is as simple as I've suggested, although I won't bother with a det
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by westoncb 9y ago
It baffles me that people ignore the fact that they have subjectivity when making these claims. It makes a certain amount of sense since science itself aims to remove any taint of subjectivity in its practice, so folks who want to be thorou
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by westoncb 9y ago
This (the universe is 'made' of math) seems to me like the most egregious error in the general outlook of contemporary scientifically-minded people—and one I made myself for many years. If you really consider the issue closely, yo
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Ask HN: Is there a good alternative to craigslist for finding rooms/housing?
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by westoncb 9y ago
Can we get a catalog of some 'molecular' repos which combine multiple elemental repos as dependencies?
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by westoncb 9y ago
I'm curious about that, too. I'm betting they are serious and just didn't get that it was a joke. As it stands I'm not quite sure I get the joke either, but it is kind of funny how useless an organization scheme this is
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by westoncb 9y ago
Maybe Slack decided to give us all a break for Halloween :) Also curious: why is this so low on the front page? 250 points, posted an hour ago...
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by westoncb 9y ago
Part of why it's difficult is that there are a tons of concepts belonging to 'real-time rendering' which three.js is built on top of. These are things like how a 3D scene is projected from a particular viewpoint using a &#x27
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Empathy represses analytic thought, and vice versa (2012)(sciencedaily.com)
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by westoncb 9y ago
We'll, I wish you guys luck and sincerely hope this removes some desk time from my life :)
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by westoncb 9y ago
I'm pursuing similar lines myself, and am only able to work in spare moments due to lack of funds, so I'm in no position to donate. > it's foolish to speculate on the possibilities of a new medium on this extraordinarily l
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by westoncb 9y ago
I saw them both a while back, and reviewed the poster for Seeing Spaces just now. However, I haven't been unable to find anything that addresses the issue I brought up. I agree very much with most of the general principles Victor talks
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by westoncb 9y ago
Realtalk/Dynamicland is fascinating to me, though there's something about it which I haven't been able to get over, which is: how can it provide the kind of generality we're used to in computing without giving some set o
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by westoncb 9y ago
Pretty hilarious. I've found Tupac to work the best, e.g. (my starting text in quotes): "I was reading Hacker News when" he gladed out Somebody excuse I went down today I wonder if I give a fuck, when I creep For s
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by westoncb 9y ago
The original question was about the Z' you mentioned before, i.e. Z without 6. > you can't just replace Z with this new set and reason about it using our mathematics Sure you can. Many things change and will break of course, an
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by westoncb 9y ago
Hmm, I think makes sense regarding counting things: it's nonsensical to use Z for counting things greater than five if you assert that it doesn't contain 6. But at the same time, that's just one use of Z. There are other us
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by westoncb 9y ago
Pretty awesome, bGlench! ;) I wonder if a kind of hybrid programming would be possible which switches between this dataflow-like functionality for parts and more traditional ('large blocks of text'-based) techniques for other part
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by westoncb 9y ago
I think your proof using the bijection amounts to: it wouldn't work because 6 wouldn't be in Z—but that is the essence of the proposition here: "what if 6 weren't in Z?" So you end up just dismissing the question. S
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by westoncb 9y ago
We already invented it in that same sense—it was just a more obviously useful thing to invent ;)
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by westoncb 9y ago
I think the idea is that 6 modulo 6 would just be 0, so in that system the only integers used are 0 through 5. Six is used as a concept in structuring the system, but it would not be present in the usage of the system.
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Thoughts on how to find alternate algebra-like systems(westoncb.blogspot.com)
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by westoncb 9y ago
Maybe it's due to fear of social stigma? Something like, "Yuri Milner spends $100 million on psychedelic drug research" —could be reputation changing.

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