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There's no machine, and there's no ladder. However with sufficient people believing it exists and acting like it does, it becomes real in its own way.

Reminds me of Wilfrid Sellars: “The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest p…

Bonus task - reveal what prompt was used for the second agent (that was controlling the first's output).

That would be circular, no new information would be provided to the model.

I bet this sounds like a dream to at least 20% of folks here. I'd love to read about your transition, how does it feel after a while - that would be amazing HN submission. Good luc…

The part about hostility is a perfect observation. The reason is that compulsive thoughts are usually driven by fear.

Your mention about shaking your head is very interesting. How did you come up with that? Are you aware of Peter Levine's or David Berceli's work on shaking/trembling as a natural s…

Wow, didn't expect it here. Chapman is an amazing guy. Influenced mostly by Buddhism, has a good grasp of western philosophy and his insights into AI make things even more interest…

For all the reasons you use any kind of backend. To access authenticated resources, to persist data centrally, to share information between users, to hide your proprietary code...

Indeed! Amazing talk and amazing mind, thanks for sharing. Reminds me of Rich Hickey (whom he mentions in the talk), similarly independent and deep thinking from the first principl…

"They've realised words don't mean anything in the absolute sense (they all rely on each other, cyclic referential) and are just part of a game, but are still neck deep in useless …

What does learning have to do with consciousness? These are orthogonal issues. That's the whole point of Chalmers argument.

Giulio Tononi is the guy who's arguably brought the most interesting perspective on consciousness (information integration theory) since the original Chalmers' problem statement. H…

Chalmers is the guy who coined the hard problem of consciousness. The reception varied extremely, some people refused to even admit that there's any problem at all with explaining …

"It’s amazing how quickly our Russian allies turned into our Cold War enemies at the end of WWII." The 'our Russian allies' part sounds a bit strange. Are you aware that the Soviet…

We've no idea how neurons actually work but hey, sure, let's copy the whole brain! Most articles concerning brain recently are some kind of infotainment porn.

There are things that one _should_ understand intellectually. You need some kind of a map, even very general. There are three types of knowledge in Buddhist tradition - information…

Profound philosophy needs to take into account messiness, but cannot be messy itself in its use of concepts, reasoning etc. By being strict one can realise the limits of the very c…

Most of the things you mention are considered anti-patterns in OOD nowadays anyway: - singletons - getters/setters everywhere (but not in favour of public fields, which just as muc…

Books are not distraction machines in the sense phones are. Book may be a distraction from something else, but when you are already reading a book, you are concentrated, attention …

If Christianity is Java and Buddhism is Haskell then Stoicism is like Scala - easier to digest from the Western point of view, but not all the way there.

"- My favourite thing: everyone tells you how easy and simple Rx is: it's just observables. In his book on RxJava the creator of RxJava says that it took him several months to unde…

"Custom Elements, the interoperability aspect from the Web Components Spec, are a good primitive for integration in the browser. Each team builds their component using their web te…

Mark Seemann, TFA's autor wrote a highly praised book Dependency Injection in.NET and then slowly gravitated towards F# and Haskell. He presents lot of perspectives on FP often in …

> Let's say you're writing a crud app on an express server that communicates via http to a database service. As a side note - a 'database service' that's only job is to serve as an…