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Have you done the cost:benefit analysis? Curious what makes you so confident that "crashing the economy" (you're aware of all the excess death and despair this would cause?) is the…

The federal government doesn't "hoard" land around areas where people would want to purchase a first home. The vast majority of crown land is not around any major urban centers. Ca…

Even with the prices of commodities falling, stock prices can still rise, and as long as this is higher than the deflationary rate, investing still beats hoarding.

Although it's the riskiest time for deer, I love centering my road trips around dusk, so that you get some daylight, some golden hour softness, a beautiful sunset, and some darknes…

Sensations are not just information. A number is information. There's something that it's like to experience a sensation. There's nothing that it's like to be a number.

Location: Ottawa, Canada Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Ruby/Rails, JS, React, SQL Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zerofries Email: sgarvagh@gmail.com

No, it's not. The argument rests on the fact that it can't be solely discrete across the entire system. The discrete information needs to "come-together" in a non-discrete way, e.g…

The input system is discrete but the end-result, our conscious experience of our world-simulations (made up of visual qualia) are not discrete. They are unified. An example of how …

There's no reason to believe qualia arise in a given discrete computation. Why would they? In what steps in the algorithm do qualia arise and why, what characteristics do they have…

This is just not the case, even with infinite energy and time. There are properties of quantum Turing machines that are not reproducible with classical Turing machines. https://web…

Self-driving cars don't experience visual qualia. A model is not the same as an actual experience. There's no binding-problem to solve with self-driving cars because there's no att…

Lots of reasons. You need energy to store the information. You wouldn't be gaining anything, only losing efficiency. The quantum level is the "lowest" level of existence, there's n…

Your left and right visual fields are united in one "space". Classical computation cannot achieve such unity. Digital computation concerns discrete parts changing in discrete steps…

The law of large numbers let's you abstract in such a way that the group can appear simpler than the individual unit. Of course, to fully simulate it across every single possible s…

A Turing machine could never simulate anything down to the quantum level, including brains, which is necessary to solve the binding-problem.

Chestnut wood has many desirable properties such as rot resistance which lowers the need for toxic wood preservatives. It makes great roofing shingles.

No it means the amount of calories coming from body fat is increased by 43%, which may amount to nothing over the course of the day if it also simultaneously increases appetite. Al…

This is part of the reason religions grow corrupt overtime. They're generally run by the former rather than latter type of person described above.

When I shovel the driveway, I'm sweating wearing no jacket, but I freeze sitting on the porch in a parka.

I'm hoping it's less itch-provoking as well. I can't lie on grass without irritating my skin like crazy.

This is the viable alternative, having similar aesthetics to a traditional lawn. However there's still a fair amount of push-back. I just bought a house and am planning a clover la…

We tell serial killers with an appreciation for the grotesque to cut it out all the time.

Or, you know, they enjoy the craft/art-form, and want to do it professionally. There's definitely some weird selection pressure in show-biz, and impulsiveness/ego may play a small …

I sometimes feel the same way when sick and I accept that I'm just going to have to put everything on hold until I get through it.