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I knew a guy at university who smoked everyday. And before he took exams or tests, he would do a bong hit to settle his nerves. He got a 1st in Chemistry. #anecdatasmackdown

There is such a thing as over stimulation. I'm rather sensitive to stimulation and become uncomfortable quite quickly around bright lights, strong smells, loud films, large grouos …

In the uk its a non thing. 50% of my friends are atheists. Its such a non issue that it hardly ever comes up. The first time i had a problem is when i couldnt have a church wedding…

Lol. This wasn't dreaming. This was posturing. It was America puffing themselves up to look big when confronted with the threat of the USSR. You have to dig deep to find the dreame…

I think its much more likely it was an accademic working around this area in the years leading up to bitcoin. Staying anonymous is an extremely clever and mature thing to do, I'd s…

Why does everyone claim to know things they don't know? The more I know the more stupid popular opinion becomes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Prigogine

I think some believers see a steady state universe. Life then becomes a boltzman brain. But I think panspermia is likely a thing and I think life naturally arises in open dissipati…

Not for price reasons. Its because the more wave guides you super glue together the more image disruption you get. It's allready blocking a significant proportion of the light, not…

"Science is dead" Poor Stacey. He is trying to be reasonable in the face of ideology.

All the comments advising caution are unpopular. I didnt expect hacker news people to be so gung ho. But then again maybe I should have expected hubris.

I still dont get it. Is this sending signals into the severed spinal cord from an artificial device? If so, how is training going to help? Is it reading from one end of the spinal …

I have the same thing. Preople look at me like i'm crazy and tell me that I should be careful not to hurt myself. I make a half hearted effort yo poiny them in the direction of som…

Eh? What does conceptually mean?

You want me to give you my best ideas? Lol, no. I can create them myself thanks.

Why is this on hacker news?

I agree. I think I could have done my degree in a year. Didnt go to any lectures, do any coursework or workshops, learnt the material in a month before the exams. Got 1st class mar…

Is it aliens?

But its still all von neumann architecture. We need a clean break at the hardware level to really get somewhere on this imho. I think reservoir computing is the way to go, with a s…

I thought that two paths leading to a single path was equivalent to wave function collapse. When we percieve things as acting clasically, what has happened is that from our point o…

Its because new ideas are built from old ideas. And old ideas travel around the world from mind to mind. When it is time for a new idea to be born, the ideas from which it is const…

Or. You know. Stop killing people for oil?

I think I work with a clone of Sergey. He has somehow managed to convince his boss that he knows what he is doing. Every interaction with him is painful as he subconcsiously does e…

Impulse over powers free will in the long term. Try starving yourself to death. Unless you are exceptional your will power will fail you. Ultimately you are not the master of desir…

God. This "free will trumps all things. You are in total control of your destiny. All things that happen to you are your own doing" needs to die. Slowly and painfully. You are a ti…

I have also been late for a flight. And often very nearly late despite giving myself huge margins. Some people, like me, just have minds that have too much going on to keep track o…