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A useful test to see the value of definitions, is to check if there are simple programs which become conscious according to the definition. There are very simple programs ( Of cour…

Sure, but isn't the response worse than the problem? When intellectual standards are abandoned (as opposed to correcting a specific bias), discourse degrades into mindless anger, c…

Are you asking us to be wary of robots bearing tacos?

If it just a mundane chatbot, the discussion is moot. But, we already have AI making breakthroughs in research and approaching the abilities do science just like a scientist does. …

Wikipedia is a presentation of partial selection of biology textbooks and research papers, not using them as a collective brain to generate new artifacts. There is a big difference…

Restricting things like creation of a highly infectious virus is very different from restricting books or even guns. There is no 'monopoly' over such a technology, as a use of the …

There are plenty of weapons (see custom made virus) which no state actor (or even an informal militia) would want to release, as these weapons attack everyone. But, open access to …

Power depends on understanding - Seeing a larger scale view of what is happening as opposed to an arbitrary sequence of manipulations. The foundations of the WW2 technologies you c…

This doesn't seem to be investment focussed activity, but rather extending Claude credits for education and research. Which is a good thing, independent of other bad things that mi…

This is not about employer vs employee and job security. In fact, the post mentions that there could be good reasons for layoffs. What the post highlights is - 1. Trust - When an e…

There is a purely geometric reason for why elliptic curves have group structure. A geometric shape which is also a group, such that the group operations are smooth maps, has to be …

Don't want to get into low quality generalizations in your post except to note tahta casual Google search will show you that Tata group is one of the most philantropically oriented…

This is a great way to present the concepts. Something like this would have been useful some years back when I was trying to use the Haskell library for lens.

For someone new, this was a really interesting read. Thanks for the effort. The picture of how the sky looks from underwater was so surprising to learn. Regarding the 'first-princi…

There is an important difference between Atman and Soul. Thoughts, emotions, decisions are seen as part of nature/prakriti not Atman, whereas Soul is usually intended to include th…

Sure, as long as your real world examination is careful about getting the causation right as practically any idea can be appropriated. For instance, someone makes false charge to l…

Quoting examples without an effort to show that it is representative of Buddhist teachings is basically a smear. Like starting a discussion on liberalism, not with principles of in…

> we can keep on building theorems on top of theorems with increasing complexity This is a somewhat bleak picture of math. We also have the other phenomena of increasing simplicity…

Dont buy your description of India. Elections matter, BJP can and does lose many elections, India is dependent on oil from Gulf countries, it doesn't have US to shield it from acti…

The French air strikes after the Paris attacks was not an occupation of Syria. There is no inevitable logic for a prolonged occupation.

Cutting off water supply is clearly the bigger threat. However, it involves a longer time frame - building infrastructure which one expects not to use in a normal situation. Import…

Yes, an outside target can be used to tackle internal strife. But, there is no sign that the Pakistani army is actually in any danger of being removed from power, barring a major m…

We are not talking about re-targeting of training and weapons from Afghanistan to Manhattan, but direct planning of an attack with ability to restrain and release the groups on dem…

The context was a reply to an assertion that the terrorists in Pahalgam were not found by Indian security. I interpreted this as people who physically did the attack. If by terrori…

Note that I am not referring to the prolonged occupation of Afghanistan, much less of Iraq here. Rather, something like a strike which targets bin Laden and other organizers of the…