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In my experience, some language like this is the result of witnessing it speak for itself.

The more I talk to people about consciousness and personal experience, the more I notice that most people hold some very strong unquestioned assumptions about these concepts. The f…

Ah, that explains it.

The process designed to optimize for attracting our attention has done what it was designed to do: optimized for attracting our attention, at the cost of all other incentives. The …

I'm not sure what you mean because you didn't actually say it, but AI is polling as one of the most disliked topics in the USA right now. More hated than ICE. Source: https://pos.o…

Does anyone know why Ubuntu would be targeted by pro-Iranian activists? I'm perplexed by the connection.

> mention how many other sentient beings are massacred while plowing a field. Rodents, insects, snakes, birds, etc. Is that a myth? Loads of small field animals are killed when eat…

By that logic, all of the Earth and the moon were once parts of stars, so tidal and geothermal are also solar. When people say "solar energy", they are usually referring to first o…

I think that this waters down "brute force" to the point of meaninglessness. If employing transformer architectures trained on data to hack a system is the same as using a for loop…

I love how fun this is. It has so much personality. Definitely can see the pico8 and aseprite inspiration. I think what could be really interesting is some procedural generation br…

from the article: `For most adults, age verification won’t be required, as Discord’s age inference model uses account information such as account tenure, device and activity data, …

There's always two sides to a coin right? While everything you said is true, I think that there's a pattern people are generally aware of in this world. Things that don't serve a p…

As a schizotypal person, I'm unsure how more people aren't exhibiting paranoid schizophrenic symptoms in this wildly untrustworthy digital age. Yesterday a good friend reached out …

You understand how the brain works right? It's probability distributions mapped to sodium ion channels. The human understands nothing.

I love how this comment chain goes directly from > Humans don't have world models To > Of course humans have world models To > You fools , there is no such thing as a "world model"…

Does anyone have any advice for someone that is curious about moving from Google to LibreOffice? I work in a collaborative environment where everyone immediately having access to t…

I don't agree with puritanical laws like this, but I do believe that the quantity and quality of porn consumed in the US constitutes a non-trivial public mental health crisis, and …

Black box of carbon or a black box of silicon.

"Actual me"? I'm the sea of energy from which all life and death springs from. We all live and die in it.

> So you define yourself as energy? Not your conscience? No division. > Energy has no feelings, no conscience, no self Where did you get that idea?

Death is just the name we give to the moment when the condensed energy that is moving this system that calls itself a body breaks down into a temporarily simpler state. At some poi…

Granted, individuals will only receive ~15% of their original claim, the increase in value over time will make it worth it for many.

It is far far too late to get paid. Several deadlines have passed.

This is really cool! Having a lot of fun with it