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See also Dragon's Lair: > Most games in the Dragon's Lair series are interactive films where the player controls Dirk the Daring, in a quest to save Princess Daphne. The game prese…

> It's a "mirror" on current society, which is probably where they got the name. Nope. It's a reference to the surface of a screen. (Though undeniably there's important double mean…

TFA refers to 'non-trivial compositionality' as what's novel about how humans communicate (and how it's perhaps not as novel as we thought): > However, the team also found examples…

It's obviously the only real end game to this policy. Asia needs to divest itself off US bonds, which China has been slowly doing the background of late. No matter how it plays out…

It's just going to be a game of whack-a-mole as production and dumping shift to the less taxed countries. In the end, manufacturing won't shift to the US while labor costs are too …

Numbers matter. Only a small amount of insurgents are needed to occupy the military, but if even 2% of the civilian population took up arms, the situation would become untenable. A…

In-group value is a kind of MLM scheme :)

'Considering some people idiots' is intolerance. Tolerating that kind of intolerance in the name of free speech in the marketplace of ideas or whatever can allow that intolerance t…

Maybe. I'm not sure if FPTP necessarily leads to authoritarianism, but there's a whole bunch of countries that sill use the system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post…

This was definitely a thing in the optical disc era of games where seek times were horrendous. In record mode, this is done by just overloading the file read functions, recording a…

P-zombies, conceptually, actually have no ghost in the machine, but are indistinguishable from sentient beings. Sentience and free will are two different things. > they may have me…

Hot take: it's a failure of democratic competition. The US doesn't have proportional representation, and it's long maintained a duopoly of two electable parties, and a first-past-t…

> anti-Israeli campus posters as idiots The problem with free speech absolutism is that it leads to the 'paradox of tolerance'. We are now seeing the fruits of that line of thinkin…

> Perhaps it's most accurate to say we have will or volition but not free of constraints imposed by our biology and physical/social environments. You might be talking about compati…

Fashion is an MLM scheme in the sense that it only works if those most invested in fashion can convince those less invested that it has value

I’ll repeat the question you might have missed > If it’s random how is it free will? Stochastic processes won’t get you to free will any more than determinism.

> processes can exist outside of our measurable physical reality If it can't be measured in reality, how can it be relevant to reality? > a random number generator in base reality?…

I sympathize with your point of view, but they stated opinion based on faith, which is wholly (holy?) different from stating truth

> computers can and will have free will too What is free will if it's simply causation? i.e., environmental inputs leading to differences in charge, altering other differences in c…

Even quantum space can be described by both deterministic and stochastic elements. The stochastic elements of quantum uncertainty are about as much free will as a PRNG – though eve…

No downvotes from me, but where do you think the free will lives? What mechanism produces it? What about that mechanism, if not purely stochastic, is not predictable? If free will …

My pedantry—like most pedantry—was focused on the problem, not the solution. Ergo, you could accurately say "AI lipsyncing nonsense" is a highly-technical solution to a practical p…

While it could be said that LLMs are in the 'peak of inflated expectations', blockchain is definitely still in the 'trough of disillusionment'. Even if there was a way for blockcha…

David Simon went into great detail in his blog about why they had to completely re-edit The Wire scene-by-scene from source material to suit the HD format. There were scenes where …

I think you mean it's a technical problem. Language translation and screen size translation are both solving for the practical problem of reaching a wider audience and on more devi…