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> This is where things kind of fall apart. We all agree (hopefully) that humans are sentient. The question is, "what else is sentient". Are all animals sentient? If so that leaves …

Thank you for your reply. I'm not sure I understand your objection perfectly. > it sets up a future conflict based upon the state that a human has It's not clear to me it does. > I…

Going further, all of those are currently under the umbrella of metaphysics, which is again a kind of prejudiced-against (often taken as irrelevant, when it contains some of, and i…

> I don't mean the nature of consciousness or internal experience (which is unfalsifiable) The way I've been thinking about it is not that internal experience is unfalsifiable, alo…

I've written some C code recently, and it came to me perhaps the pointer syntax may not be ideal. I'm not sure what the ideal would be, but I think a different notation for usage a…

> Math is entirely subjective. "Proof" essentially means "Other educated practitioners have the same experience when trying to understand this." > The logical steps that proofs are…

Really cool, and although I am not quite up to date on biology research (relevant here), I believe there were exciting results showing mechanisms like electric fields acting as sig…

It's not just about the base algorithm. It's also about the memory needed to run it, and the clockspeed. For example, even the hardest problem you can imagine, if it has a verifier…

I like the idea of some kind of algorithm minimalism, or at least parsimony; but I also think sometimes it might be appropriate? In this case, another approach would simply be rand…

This is extremely far from any of my expertises, but I'll offer an answer while no one else did (please correct me!). Basically, all medicine (i.e. drugs) we have are proteins or c…

This is not a super well thought out position, but I've been leaning towards really disliking AI art in general (without having an opinion on any strong policy action yet). First, …

Disclaimer: I really like Open source. I think without open source something similar might have happened to a lot of software, but instead of becoming Open, they'd become gratis (f…

Something I think is worth pointing out: this is happening in the Netherlands, i.e. their jurisdiction. I think most people here aren't from the Netherlands. I think they should be…

I think another model could help here. Like an automatic/anonymous micropayment when you access a website. This could be a fraction of your internet subscription reserved for micro…

"I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it. I circle around God, around the primordial tower. I’v…

You might enjoy some of my writings on formalizing meaning (see here[1] and follow the links). In some way, although not always reliable, you can say that if you feel A is more mea…

If you have a very high enough refresh rate display, then yes: just flash alternatingly black-over-white and white-over-black text (i.e. invert it). We perceive essentially a low-p…

I am not a super experienced coder or anything. But I like thinking about it[1]. The way I've been thinking about it is about organization. Organize code like we should organize ou…

Also, more to the point of your observation: we should be indeed very careful about any extreme and any maximization, because I presume when we maximize a lot we tend to bump into …

Good question, and I've spent a few years investigating this sort of question :) It led me to investigate formalizing ethics and if that would be even possible (so we don't fall in…

That's a cute story, I certainly like its tone of mystery. However, the premise seems a bit wrong (or at least the narrator is wrong). If your brain actually degenerates from usage…

Personally, I give to projects I use (and ones that need most help), and I'm happy that say my younger self or people with no conditions can still use it without paying. I think th…

Yea, I am indeed quite deficient in HTML knowledge and webpages in general. I'll look into PHP, thanks. Overall I have standards (that might be unachievable?) that I think tools sh…

I confess I have failed multiple times to build simple web pages (like a blog and homepage, admittedly after not too much effort), while I've made multiple fairly complex javascrip…

I don't know, I can't really justify spending say 8 hours sitting -- and much less more time. We need to go for a walk, drink water, stop staring at a screen to stay reasonably hea…