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Same, I built a correctly-working AND gate made only of NAND gates but the tests don't pass.

Because more is better. Seriously, the game they play is at this point ludicrous. I saw 18650 cell being advertised through the years as 2500mAh, to 3500mAh (still reasonable/credi…

Definitely. An implication of several strands of idealism is that we will be able to create artificial life (with consciousness)... it will just look like biology.

I might in some sense agree with you but check your wording: creationism... we recreated life... see where I'm going?

This is at the same time one of the most solid metaphysics and one of the least known or studied. At least for now.

The "complexity -> magic" argument is just religious belief. Something one accepts without proof or a shed of coherent reasoning around it.

Naturalism and materialism are not married together. Materialism can't claim naturalism just for itself. There are coherent ontologies that are naturalists and not materialists.

Cognition/intelligence is not consciousness. Information processing vs phenomenality. AI is intelligent (it's in the name) but not conscious.

The like-ness properly capture in one go the first-person and the phenomenal aspects of consciousness.

Not even close.

As a counter example, I witnessed 3 months ago a similar scene in my neighborhood, where a kid on a bike, crossing on pedestrian stripes, was hit by a taxi. It was a bad accident b…

IQ tests only measure the ability to pass IQ tests, they say very little about intelligence. MMA fighters might be among the most intelligent people on the planet, playing 4D bulle…

Biome is just a fancy term that encompasses a set of moral subjects.

We don't really know that.

That's a very superficial take. "Physical" and "reality" are two terms that must be put in the same sentence with _great_ care. The physical is a description of what appears on our…

That's the point in contention, how to go from "electrical and chemical signals" (the quantities, mole, charge, mass, momentum, coulomb, spin) to qualities (emotions, perception, f…

I don't know, you tell me: how do you _exactly_ go from quantities to qualities? Keep in mind that the "physical" is a model of our perception and nothing else.

I might be misunderstanding GP but I take it to mean "rock are conscious" => "silicon is conscious" => "agents are conscious", which might appeal to some uneducated audience, and c…

Maybe the point of someone else you've spoken to. Personally I don't even see how free will enters into this discussion, and if you were to ask me, I don't even think we have it as…

Libet has only measured the latency of metaconsciousness/cognition, nothing else. It says nothing about free will, which is ill defined anyway.

Especially with Euclyd entering the space (efficiency for AI workloads), with founders with tight ties to ASML, this is the move Europe needs.

A Maksutov 127 is an excellent lunar and planetary scope, light with great portability.

Most likely the logic is at least similar. Yes, line by line, each line is encoded in bytes where each bit is a pixel. I had to "invert" the image as the printer will print the "wh…