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Note the difference between what you said: "here's a different way of doing a thing that you're already doing, and don't mind doing, and understand the reasong for doing" ...and th…

> a matter of conditioning I remember, it must have been in the late '90s, when Windows added the ability to get "important security updates" via the internet and a lot of people w…

> Why would Windows systems be anywhere near critical infra ? This is just a guess, but maybe the client machines are windows. So maybe there are servers connected to phone lines o…

> Try to identify the circular part of the argument. I did. Should I repeat it?

> Your "counterexample" is not a normal number in any sense, most obviously because it isn't irrational, but only slightly less obviously because, as you note yourself, the sequenc…

> A normal number would mean that every finite sequence of digits is contained within the number. Is that true? I don't see how that could be true. The sequence 0-9 repeated infini…

> they will still be marking the ticket as used in their backend. I assume that's true, but it makes me wonder how their scanners are connected to the server. I mean, if 10,000 peo…

That's a good summary of it. Thank you. > If Penrose is right then neural networks implemented on regular computers will never think. I disagree that that is necessarily an implica…

> however the brain thinks must be describable by math Roger Penrose believes that some portion of the work brains are doing is making use of quantum processes. The claim isn't too…