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I find it interesting to speculate why those words are not in widespread use. Many of them seem to either have more commonly used near-synonyms (acedia - apathy, indifference or en…

You shouldn't, but it happens. The UI makes it much easier to open a new tab than to close older tabs (unless you close all of them at once). You even inadvertently open new tabs w…

It's not just a public place, but a very specific type of public place: a shopping mall. Were it just a public square with people from your social circle, then it wouldn't be as da…

An AGI being able to wipe out humanity doesn't necessarily mean that it can take over the universe. The world's governments are already capable of causing extreme suffering through…

> Memorisation is adding nodes to your existing network of knowledge Adding nodes to your existing network of knowledge is learning facts. Memorization is making the nodes persiste…

Find out if your addiction is because you find the world boring, or if you're trying to escape from something you fear. If it's the former, block the addictive content and replace …

Timeless is another skin, which was never made default [1]. The skin that hides the languages and doesn't use the full screen space is the new skin (Vector 2002). There was talk ab…

> I recently came across a term for this. Telic vs. atelic activities [0]. Telic activities are things with some terminal state, e.g. a typical goal-oriented project, or something …

Such perspective isn't really so surrealistic, when we think about the lengths some governments and institutions go to stop people from talking to each other. Some countries censor…

Essays are often meant not as a measure of understanding, but as a tool for the student to learn, to reflect on how well they understand the material, and for the teacher to be awa…

They're testing out the new UI in the other language Wikipedias. It adds a nice collapsible topic structure to the sidebar and sets a text width limit, but hides the available lang…

> There is a person thinking about the prompt, typing in the prompt, painstakingly selecting the image that matches what they imagined in their head. Which does make this a type of…

The problem is with the (interpreted) subtext of the question. The question "Is our checkout page not performing well?" might be just a question, but in the context the author was …

How do you define "consciousness", though? If we define it to be just a human interpretation of an observed physical process, and we believe subjective experience to be an illusion…

That's a problem that affects all theories about the metaphysics of consciousness. All of them share the burden of explaining how a world where "consciousness" exists would be diff…

Some forms of panpsychism (such as panprotopsychism) aren't much different from emergent materialism. Emergent materialism states human consciousness originates from the state of a…

Extreme situation that could be a counterexample to your claim: Dr. Evil is 90 years old, his consciousness is slowly fading away, and he is going to die in a week. He is almost re…

Some of them seem specially hard to read. I mistook the phone emoji for a "missing character" symbol, the baby emoji for a hand and the dancing emoji for an Among Us crewmate with …

Above a certain percentage it's going to poison human-generated content too. You will have to discern between ai-generated content, ai-influenced-human generated content and genuin…

> I had a similar view as a kid, driven mostly by the fact that I wasn't very good at memorisation. I found that I could get by in maths without it, eg. deriving the quadratic form…

They usually were two separate parts on the same page, the shout-box was a widget and its content did not get indexed. The forum was usually not a single-page application, and foru…

The issue of the barrier to entering a forum and ask a question used to be a non-issue, as it was easily solved by appending a shout-box to it. Ephemeral, anonymous, low barrier ch…

At least we can still use duckduckgo and use the !wa bang (wolfram alpha) Sometimes even without the !wa, as duckduckgo itself often provides the result