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About illuminant
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Comment #41723623
The quantum process IS consciousness. Life animates and extends this as a technology.
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Comment #41721633
Consciousness, the inflection upon the potential of existential being (a feedback loop) or awake awareness? Seems kind of obvious to me, so that the Universe can peer back upon and…
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Comment #41720089
Tbh, unless it's well known you don't have to bring it up. Focus on your role. One of my most exciting and most engaging opportunities went under (small multinational company), I o…
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Comment #41720048
We do, it's called "the military" and it does not preach violence for just any reason, it is the final recourse. Peace is not possible without the capacity for war. If you say othe…
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Comment #41712884
I am not a product of academia (though I have spent decades in self studies.) I think of intelligence all the time. In fact, I am pushing the definition, intelligence: the mitigati…
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Comment #41710875
I disagree with the quote and the general conception of intelligence. The scalar nature of intelligence is more like points on a sphere than a hockey stick graph of good answers. H…
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Comment #41707687
> he continued to suffer from severe psychotic symptoms, including auditory hallucinations and religious delusions. We are not alone in our own minds and the disembodied voices are…
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Comment #41692980
Beautiful dream, though reality is yet to be tested. The greatest challenge I foresee is that effective food systems require a great deal of processing. Without an army of regular …
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Comment #41690292
We are not alone in alone in our own minds. There is a secret culture, a secret governance, and a secret war upon us all. This has always been among us (one in six of us know exact…
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Comment #41687565
I was thinking the same thing about my uConsole.
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Comment #41686167
All the time
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Comment #41675131
Espresso (at any dosage) is an acquired taste!
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Comment #41674648
Without changing the periodicity of the orbital ecliptic? I am skeptical. We have calendars from ancient civilization which show the periodicity of visible planets, and they have b…
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Comment #41674623
If humanity is to mature, we must be critical and take responsibility for ourselves, particularly when the alignment of others are concerned. Such as starting by disagreeing with e…
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Comment #41672292
Play some games that interest you and model on paper how you think it could (or should) work. As a mature intellectual returning to games later in life, I really enjoy financial an…
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Comment #41672142
Shit storm, if AI is trained on the moral conjectures of arm chair psychologists and philosophers. Morality is NOT a game of virtues. Morality CANNOT BE DETERMINED by choosing who …
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Comment #41662167
For those who don't know (the article meanders), India is more like Europe than America, until the post colonial era the individual "states" were their own countries... since the b…
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Comment #41658846
I would like to point out this is an interesting distinction between "conscious" awake/aware and "consciousness" the inflection of our existential being. The conscious may through …
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Comment #41651154
No. Peak human is the ability to wield one's own mind and body in exceptional ways. Peak humans have existed from time to time throughout all time. There are actually many forms. W…
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Comment #41631820
You try too hard
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Comment #41628135
Snakes in the grass. Despise not what you covet in another, for that is hypocrisy. Democracy's greatest failing is that it does not favor self solutions over public rigamarole. Chi…
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Comment #41627900
Please, stop. Citing archaic and dead trends to someone who grew up profiting by their unnecessary complexity does you no favors.
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Comment #41626743
Lolz I'll leave it there.
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Comment #41626198
Everyone has their "way", find your own. I learned that we should raise our further generations like this: - the highest goal of child-rearing should be to accomplish a self respon…
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Comment #41625049
I solve these very problems in the API stack. I cannot speak to raw performance at scale if that's you're thing, though I have long since solved the feature logic lifecycle, and it…