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by xamuel 7y ago
Not a tax lawyer, but reporting of lot identification is a tax-time decision, at least for the things being discussed in this thread. If it's transaction-time then that's totally unenforceable since this discussion applies to th
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by xamuel 7y ago
A serious answer that isn't just "lobbyists": Even if the IRS had perfect info about all your income and investments, there are decisions you can make which effectively make taxes non-deterministic. Suppose on two different d
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by xamuel 7y ago
Above you wrote: >The mistake is to think that something/someone could very convincingly _seem_ to be conscious but somehow not actually be conscious. The puppet very convincingly seems to be conscious, but you yourself admit the pu
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by xamuel 7y ago
"The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." (John 3:8)
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by xamuel 7y ago
Can you prove to me that you're not an elaborate bot programmed to post on Hacker News?
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by xamuel 7y ago
Love that story, thanks! Ok, now a serious response. You come administer a Turing Test (in sign language) to a puppet which I'm controlling with some strings which you can't see. Using puppetry, I help the puppet pass the test. Is
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by xamuel 7y ago
But we don't know that we can't ever possibly test consciousness, we just don't know how to test it yet. Before Archimedes, the problem of determining the purity of a golden crown was intractable. Archimedes' solution wa
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by xamuel 7y ago
I can easily write a computer program that tells lies, that doesn't mean it's conscious.
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by xamuel 7y ago
+1. Here's a trick you can use to trip yourself out (also works as a party trick to trip other people out). Look in a mirror. Look at your left eye. Look at your right eye. Look at your left eye. Look at your right eye. You won't
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by xamuel 7y ago
>We make that assumption because other people are like us. Yes, and I think this is a mistake, because it shuts down any hope of isolating what it is about us that makes us conscious. Perhaps this will change as human-lookalike-robot tec
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by xamuel 7y ago
One assumption people often take for granted about consciousness is that everyone is conscious. I agree we should operate under that assumption for the purposes of making ethical decisions, but I think we should challenge it for the purpose
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by xamuel 7y ago
>a tradition I cannot get away from, getting the game on release date and inviting my brother to play it until deep in the night Probably well worth the cost just to spend the time with your brother. I wish I lived close enough to my bro
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by xamuel 7y ago
The King of France would have claimed all the French revolutionaries were trolls.
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by xamuel 7y ago
The abstract is damning, but not surprising to anyone outside the machine learning bubble. It's a symptom of a major problem in meta-science: breakthroughs are hard, and when you shovel billions of dollars into trying to incentivize br
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by xamuel 7y ago
That page you linked seems to be a gigantic wall of buzzwords and I'm not going to spend the 2 hours it would take to wade through to determine whether that company actually does anything at the end of the day. (I'll assume they
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by xamuel 7y ago
Well, in theory, people can use that basic income to pay for school... or they could, if the school wasn't so bloated and overpriced, which the school has been getting away with because the government has been giving it so much money.
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by xamuel 7y ago
Are you suggesting I should do a better job of cherry-picking things? I'm not trying to "trick" people with fake cherry-picked Christianity, we're all smarter than that here. It was an example that what's deemed &qu
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by xamuel 7y ago
Your idea of what's a good person is based on what the world tells you is a good person. I, too, am tempted to think of myself as being inherently good, but if I were born hundreds of years ago, would I really have been so inherently g
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by xamuel 7y ago
>the driver - even a human one - is not expected to answer random questions as they are driving. In the same way, the C++ compiler was not expected to be able to emulate arbitrary programs (i.e. to be Turing complete), but some ingenious
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by xamuel 7y ago
Very true. People think of verses like Leviticus 20:13 (homosexuals condemned to death) but forget verses like John 8:7, "Let he who is without sin throw the first stone." Perhaps one of the most relevant teachings of Jesus is fro
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by xamuel 7y ago
>driving a car is a walk in the park In the average situation, not the edge-case. The way you should think about it is, "If I had a black-box oracle that can drive a car exactly like a human, could I use that to simulate an artifici
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by xamuel 7y ago
If ability to breed meant same species, you'd end up with awkward results upon taking the transitive closure. I can't breed with a rabbit, but there exists a historical path of millions of organisms, starting with me and ending wi
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by xamuel 7y ago
>Instead of spending 30 hours reading a book, you can just listen to conversion among smart people in 30 minutes in podcasts I don't understand this. Why can't that 30 minute conversation be transcribed into a script which you
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by xamuel 7y ago
PLoS is less egregious since they "only" charge $1600 and waive it for authors who can't afford it. With Elsevier/Springer on the other hand, the author has to opt-in and pay about twice that amount or more, no waiver in
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by xamuel 7y ago
Not exactly steelman, but something you'll want to be aware of if you're going to be debating in this area: The publishers have attempted (and mostly succeeded) to poison the well by equating true open access (free to read, free t
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by xamuel 7y ago
>Why is the former political and the latter not? In that example, I'd say neither one is political. Now, if the one side started saying "Blue-skyers should be deplatformed", THAT would be political. >Here, you do not re
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by xamuel 7y ago
You didn't explain what's political about any of those posts. Just because there's a political party committed to believing "the sky is red" doesn't make it political to say "the sky is blue". I was t
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by xamuel 7y ago
>Please. No, you please. I'm genuinely trying to reach a better understanding of your side. What comment did you think was the most political, outside of this sub-thread? Was it the one by car12 [1] which pointed out a quantitative
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by xamuel 7y ago
>There does seem to be darker political overtones that are exacerbated by commenters Are we reading the same comments section? Which specific comments are you talking about? The comments section I read seemed quite apolitical, except for
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by xamuel 7y ago
I'm not trying to score points in favor of a political position (please follow HN etiquette of giving posters the benefit of the doubt). The filtering you refer to may be useful[1] when looking at bulk lists of papers (e.g. when sittin

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