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I buy the emotional appeal of “please let the UFO show up and dissolve all our problems.” But even if non human intelligence is real (it’s not impossible), turning that into “doom”…

I don't want to read comments, but I can’t be the only one who wrote a script to click forever and turned the page into a chaotic, laggy nightmare. Pure art honestly

Yep, he made a mistake.

Consciousness is the most obvious mystery, one that undoubtedly warrants considerable attention. Your point about starting with physical things is questionable, as highlighted by p…

Understand things? He has never successfully explained anything related to consciousness except by using the magical word: illusion. One might argue back, 'You're the illusion, Mr.…

I've never quite seen eye to eye with Daniel Dennett. His tendency to reduce the inexplicable to what he's confident he understands has always made me wonder if a challenging child…

It's a revolutionary thing, but I'll reserve my judgment until I see if it can handle the real challenge: creating a video where my code works perfectly on the first try.

Brazil is truly "samba"-rific, hitting a high note with 92.4% of its electricity by renewables. It seems they're not just good at producing great music and football talent. Obrigad…

IMO it's not that there 'were' multiple species and only we survived; we are still multiple species, but we don't point that out for cultural correctness. Yes, the extent of our di…

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (depending) Technologies: Go, Node, Nest, Next, AWS, SQS, Kafka, Redis, Jenkins, Kibana, React, Flutter, T…

Such incidents mark the end of an era. The diminishing relevance of traditional media in the digital age is afoot. I feel sorry for those who feed their families through this indus…

Insightful articulation of the concept of technical debt (likening it to a financial loan) but it somewhat oversimplifies the nuanced and often non-linear nature of software develo…

The 'Oh-My-God particle' refers to an actual observation made in 1991, which is known by this name. Besides, not all scientists are atheist.

Brilliant! After years of delay and uncertainty, €2.6 billion per year to regain access to a program they were once part of? Who needs that extra money for healthcare, education, o…

You can dictate the style of writing in your prompt, though. For example, I have a few prompts saved in my notes, each for a particular use case. Except for a few comments I write …

I believe that in a couple of years, people will start looking at writings (any writing) in a very different way than they do now. Apart from the fact that spelling or grammatical …

Me feeling philosophical. To me, solving a problem is living. No machine will do living, unless we know what living is, so that we can try to bake it into a machine. We can use Cha…