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I would think that Linux financially scales better than Windows, which is why Windows Server + SQL is shrinking while Linux server is growing, and now Linux is the world's most pop…

To me, the mark of an artificial intelligence is general analogizing ability , and that's not what we have here. A system capable of general analogy could potentially write its own…

I think we're still on the same page for consciousness; we're just using different words, except for the fact that you add a reflexive (or feedback) component to consciousness, whi…

There is indeed a science of consciousness, such as with anesthesiology or pharmacology. These sciences are concerned with the space of awareness of a subject. I'd also say that th…

I think it's better to privately consult an attorney on anything you think is substantially suspicious to your superiors than to go through the chain of the command. Exposing your …

I think that transparency and opaqueness provide different kinds of security, but they are related to security. It would be wrong to say that they are independent simply because an…

But why is it dangerous, on balance, to make assumptions of causality from data and statistics alone? Animals, such as rats and ravens, face this problem all the time, and yet they…