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you eat for $5.5/week?

This is a funny self-own, what am I missing? Timing v. trends: - big game studios are already reviled as lazy, bloated - nimble indies are hitting a lot of records - gen. AI coming…

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You can just say “I bought this expensive wine regardless how it tastes.” But people don’t want to sound foolish; they want to pretend they can taste the difference. Point to minut…

This same point was also made clumsily in the OP; I’m very unconvinced. The obvious question marks in that theory: Lots of human labor happens in nondemocratic polities; slave-owni…

“You wouldn’t download a car” is making an unexpected comeback after all these years

> We shouldn't have to give up our rights to privacy to participate in society. Betrays fundamental misunderstanding of both.

I don’t think I solve multiple choice questions like that. I consider the letters to correspond to facts about the world, consider the facts symbolically, and then map back to the …

It's much simpler: The point of being rich is to have all the good stuff. To get there, it helps if you're not too easily satisfied. Alas, many rich people go overboard on not bein…

This approach never worked well for me. Food and travel is so forgettable; it perishes much faster than nice clothes or shiny toys. It also seems like people chase the dragon; keep…

A bunch of other rich people don’t know how to enjoy their stuff but you don’t have to fall in that trap. There is a “mindfulness” angle. Instead of taking it always for granted, p…

Regulation wise we can hope the EU forces us to click through accept popups whenever we walk into a room.

These conclusions seem premature. > To reconcile this statement with his admission that ChatGPT reliably turns out passable results, we must assume the average student simply rearr…

At that point why not call it “witchcraft;” a sciencey word for something is not an explanation.

Not really conflating. The original question just seems stupid/meaningless and it’s meta fascinating that people apparently attach something to it. Things look different. Some thin…

Maybe I don’t get it, but it does not seem surprising that something happens to be beautiful? Is there some reason that this something should not to be flowers? Is there some assum…

Yes, I meant to write ”human => conscious.” Theory of mind. To the extent theory of mind is learned it’s obviously learned from “a fuzzy…”. No disagreement there. What’s your point…

Many may be, but as other comments state, arguments against solipsism don't all rely on behavior/performance: Some non-Turing test arguments against solipsism. - Humans are believe…

Intent: not lumping in all of Turing's work, not the universal computation argument. The hand wave spelled out: "Is there thinking going on inside a given machine? Let's propose a …

Do you like our owl? Edit: TLDR/direct answer: > If we created something that mimicked all observable properties of a bird, why would that not be a bird? "Observable" is doing the …

Probably both necessary

How I'd do it: 1. Define reasoning (hard) 2. Inspect the system to see if this is what it's doing (hard) Conclusion: too hard, so until I get better I don't know if any given thing…

Can you make left turns? Can you stop at red lights? Then you have a driver.

This is persuasive reasoning. But basically "There are no conscious entities we know of period (other than ourselves)" is a much simpler belief.

You proof is tautological or whatever: it assumes the thing it's trying to prove. "The fact that I can pray to God and he hears me proves that he exists"