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> There is no objective evidence of qualia. You can argue there's no objective evidence for qualia in others than oneself, but I'm sure you know you have subjective experience just…

Sure, but those internal states could then exist for just about any program, or at the very least for any ANN. Nobody in their right minds would have suggested that those might hav…

I just don't think linguistic (or other symbolic) representations alone can contain the information, in any sense of the word, of what e.g. human subjective experiences actually ar…

I wasn't trying to give a model. The point was that I don't think it's necessary to give one. You didn't address any of what I wrote, let alone provide any counterarguments. Which …

I honestly don't think a language model is enough for self-awareness, regardless of the exact model of awareness. A language model (or an image model or whatever) cannot even be se…

16 GiB was good 11 years ago but laptops were also sold around that time that maxed out at 8 GiB due to limited slots or soldered memory. And lots of laptops are still being sold t…

Police do need authority and respect in order to do their jobs, of course. But at the same time their position of power and their role as maintainers of public peace mean they shou…

> a tiny minority of people care about [...] You know, unlike the minor issues of war and peace and hunger and poverty and economics and minority rights et cetera :) The complexity…

> I experience some habituation actually. I suppose it can be quite different for different people. I stopped using it because it often (not always) made me still feel tired and un…

AFAIK mirtazapine shouldn't cause habituation the way actual "sleeping pills" or benzodiazepines do. That's one of the reasons it may be preferable as a sleeping aid, especially in…

Shortcuts, mostly. The shortcut for toggling fullscreen in Firefox is F11. Many default shortcuts in JetBrains IDEs also use function keys. The keymap can be changed, of course, so…

Maybe it's the advice that's usually right.

I'm not asking for LLM tools to be similar to compilers, or saying that they can't be useful if they aren't. I know rather well that the two are different, and that's the point. Be…

> From what I've seen in these HN discussions, most people are using "determinism" when they really mean "prompt sensitivity", i.e. minor variations in framing leading to different…

In my (admittedly limited) experience, a verbose and elaborate writing style is also traditionally more common in humanities whereas scientific or technical writing favours a rathe…

Sounds like the short answer is "because there was no standard for the variable set by MS-DOS from the get go". The background is that the issue hadn't existed in CP/M because ther…

I think #2 is actually circular, or perhaps rather contradictory. In order to be able to have an illusion one would have to be conscious in the first place. Or how would you have a…

You could do all of those things on an OS with proper security separation as long as you have full root access. There's no megacorp stopping you from reading and writing kernel mem…

> I’m still at where when I connect external hard drive or SSD via USB, use it and then eject it, I shut down the MacBook Pro completely before I unplug the cable. Just in case. Th…

A lot of that probably came down to the motherboard chipset. IIRC Intel made their own chipsets for the Pentium III and they were good and reliable. Athlons were coupled with chips…

I almost never get Firefox crashes on Linux, and I don't remember seeing significant slowdowns with text boxes either, at least not simple ones. How long are the inputs that you ge…

If running low on memory seems to matter less now than it did a couple of decades ago, I'd rather say that's because fast SSDs make swapping a lot faster. Even though virtual memor…

What do you do to address health concerns before they become ER-level?

> Remember, a hash is a "one way function". It isn't invertible (that would defeat the purpose!). It is a surjective function. Meaning that reversing the function results in a non-…