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by zeroer 10y ago
> Strong AI can be achieved That remains to be seen. Let Sam have this. How often do you get a religious person to detail exact circumstances that would falsify their religion?
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by zeroer 10y ago
If you buy into materialism, the idea that the mind arises from the brain through physics alone and nothing else, then your mind is able to be simulated on a big enough computer, which means that consciousness can be implemented by a machin
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The question you're asking is essentially the same as the Chinese room thought experiment. My interpretation is that the system of the stones plus the mind of the guy together make up the program, when neither alone can.
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by zeroer 10y ago
Yea, sure. What's so hard about that? XKCD made a comic about something similar: https://xkcd.com/505/ . It's unintuitive, sure, but that's just because of the enormous size of the cardboard you'd
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by zeroer 10y ago
I think we're talking past each other, and there may be some confusion about terminology. I will do my best to try to describe what's going on to the best of my abilities and see whether that answers your questions. Bell's T
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by zeroer 10y ago
> everyone is better off That's definitely not the argument. It's that on average most people are better off, or some sort of weighted average of people's well-being.
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Heh, no. ;)
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by zeroer 10y ago
I'd probably be what you'd call a digital nomad. I keep a Time Machine backup on a ruggedized external drive, and I use Backblaze. I've been very happy with Backblaze, if that's what you're asking about. Addition
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It lacks counterfactual definiteness globally, because there's multiple outcomes, not a single fact-of-the-matter. It lacks counterfactual definiteness locally from a subjective perspective due to the seemingly random outcomes.
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by zeroer 10y ago
Not true. Bell's result precludes local realism. So physics is either not local or lacks realism (counterfactual definiteness). The Many Worlds Interpretation keeps the locality but lacks counterfactual definiteness. The fact that
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by zeroer 10y ago
Just to clarify, Bell's result implies that our universe is either lacking locality or counterfactual definiteness. Counterfactual definiteness means that for any measurement you could perform there is a definite fact of the matter of
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by zeroer 10y ago
Don't blame me. Blame the incentives created by first-past-the-post voting. Edit: Just to avoid confusion, by this I mean that though I would have been happier with Johnson or Stein in the White House, realistically either Clinton or
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by zeroer 10y ago
I appreciate and respect your opinion on this matter, though I don't happen to agree with it. I hope that this can be a lesson for leftists to take - that if you put up a poor enough candidate, you'll lose the votes of people like
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> Trump is far more corrupt than Clinton We disagree on this point. I believe that Clinton is the most corrupt politician the US has ever seen. I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to when you talk about Trump's co
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by zeroer 10y ago
This comment does not deserve downvotes. When you punish people for asking polite honest questions, you bring down the level of discourse and turn this place into an echo chamber.
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by zeroer 10y ago
You're right that the emails could have been forged. I take this as a serious possibility. You say that "all those emails have been denied by their senders". I'm not sure what you're referring to. Would you mind
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by zeroer 10y ago
jedberg, I've looked quite closely at a lot of evidence surrounding the Clintons. Picking one aspect of one scandal and discrediting it is not going to change my mind. We'd have to have monstrous discussion of events going back
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by zeroer 10y ago
Honest answer: I don't know. Moreover, I'm quite skeptical with others who seem to have such certainty on this issue. I disliked and dislkike Trump. But my mind recoils at the thought that the Clintons' shenanigans will re
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by zeroer 10y ago
I'm very sympathetic to that viewpoint. I mulled over the idea of voting for a third party long and hard. I would have preferred Sanders, Stein, or Johnson over Trump. In the end, I decided it was worth more to me to block Clinton.
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by zeroer 10y ago
I like liberals. I am a liberal. Even still, I voted Trump, because of how corrupt the Clintons are.
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by zeroer 10y ago
Their MacOS client is amazing, so I doubt it's a technical constraint. My guess is that because they don't have size limits on their backups, if all of their customers are backing up terabytes, Backblaze bleeds money, so they dep
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by zeroer 10y ago
Why not crowdsource the tagging?
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by zeroer 10y ago
You may be right. I don't know the law that well. Should there be a punishment for overstaying a visa? What should it be? I think the answer may depend on the type of visa, the length of overstay, and perhaps some other factors, but
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by zeroer 10y ago
> Why are we considering the preferences of the parties? I mentioned it because you said something about Pareto efficiency, and moving to instant runoff would not be Pareto efficient because some people (the parties are made up of people
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by zeroer 10y ago
It's definitely not Pareto efficient. If you're a member of the party establishment in one of the big two parties of a system, you stand to lose a lot by moving to an instant runoff and nothing to gain. Unfortunately, most of the
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by zeroer 10y ago
The only people Trump has promised to deport are those here illegally, so I'm assuming that the friends you mention are illegal immigrants, whose mere presence in the country is a crime. Is it so much to ask visitors to our country to
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by zeroer 10y ago
Sure. That's why I opened by thanking OP.
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Thanks for writing this. I'm glad people are pushing back against the insanity of the diamond marketing. But you're still buying into the concept of the gifting of rings, when this is a recent phenomenon created by De Beer's
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Don't over-generalize. I got married for a total price of about $700. One can be frugal if one decides that saving money is a priority.
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The problem with CZ is that it absorbs oil and dirt from the surroundings, so that within a couple years of regular use it's noticeably cloudy. Though I would say for the first year, it's a perfectly good substitute for diamond.

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