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I second this. I found it easier to spin up servers on other services and run big install scripts than to try do decode Amazon's naming/acronym hell. The requirement to connect inv…

free means no fees. free roads have no tolls. free concerts do not charge ticket prices. closed markets, toll roads, private venues all charge fees.

I found this approach deeply troubling because it moves us away form semantic design towards logic design... which always runs into problems when the database itself becomes semant…

I recommend introducing an explicit sexual harassment policy. Have each employees sign that policy form indicating they understand the sexual harassment policy and that violating i…

If we look at how organism manage semantic information, we know it is done with cells and cell clusters and making "connections" between cells in nervous systems. (it isn't all ner…

I was not trying to connect rule 110 to Searle's argument per se, but rather to the critique of Searle's argument. Namely, that criticisms of the lookup table are not criticisms of…

I think the Searle/Aaronson thing is sorta dead (we're arguing over what, 3 paragraphs?) But... You touch on a very interesting point in your reply here: "You'd need something "out…

Your points are all good. But they have nothing to do with meaning, or with semantics. Cellular automata are lookup tables, and Wolfram and others proved some cellular automata rul…

you might want to watch this lecture by Searle at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHKwIYsPXLg

a system that simulates some process or system is not the process or system it simulates. Just take writing programs: Can we simulate the process of writing programs? Could we crea…

Searle uses a lookup table argument in the chinese room. I was making the case that lookup tables as a computational tool can be turing complete, and I'm assuming Searle covered Tu…

Um, he doesn't. He is talking about Searle's argument, but he is not refuting it. Explicitly he says: "Where others invoked complexity considerations to argue with Searle about the…

Searle is making an argument about awareness. That a computer system is explicitly unaware of any of it's content. That it's programs are functions and the data also performs a pur…

Aaronson does not critique the chinese room argument at all, at least not in the paper cited.

An interpreter for metabolic like computing to produce cell like structures as a mechanism to create machine consciousness.

A money manager. It knows all the expenses and allocates an allowance. it tells you to get a new job and to trim expenses in a sensible way. it tells you to stop buying so many clo…

it doesn't matter where you start, it matters what you do now. there is NOTHING you can do about the past. zero. it is impossible to change the past. You can do things today. find …

I didn't offer this as shock and awe. it came from the realization I had, living alone, incredibly poor, and feeling only a bleak future was possible, while standing outside a buil…

ground hog day / kill yourself. literally, kill yourself, but do it FOR something. what would you kill yourself to achieve? Think big. If you wouldn't kill yourself to achieve that…