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American Christians are extremely individualistic... As long as your individual interests coincide with their rigid moral code and what they see as a "good Christian lifestyle". Se…

That's funny. I come at this from the opposite direction. I like to run stuff on my home server, and I started a ROM collection because of Romm. If you're used to managing a media …

I thought that for a while. Until it was pointed out to me that most long videos are made of 6 second shots. Generating a long video one shot at a time kind of makes sense, as long…

You don't need to root an android to install apps from outside the play store

That argument feels entirely circular to me Why are you ok with the president being above the law? That idea was not considered normal even a couple years ago

Maybe for now. But I think there's a good chance the market for diamonds goes the same way as the former status symbols that became common, like purple dye[1], or pineapples[2] [1]…

In the case of diamonds, you have the choice of buying the exact same product with human suffering involved, or without. If there were a lab-grown iPhone on the market, of course I…

the elders of the internet

to me, programming is playful math. I think I would have enjoyed math a lot more as a kid if we learned programming alongside the traditional math lessons

Dogs don't automatically love either, you have to build a bond. Especially if they are shelter dogs with abusive histories, they're often nervous at first They're usually loving by…

friendly reminder to you: you won't be in the future either. because all humans have short lifespans. having children won't change that. enjoy the ride, whatever that means to you

I think the difference with qualia is that it has so many ethical implications too. I can accept that I have inner experiences and can suffer, but what about animals/robots/outside…

I'm honestly shocked you're skeptical about this

The primary value of any social network is the network effect

what is a complex life to you?

you say gaining new information from out of body experiences are a fact. what's your evidence to back it up? I treat those kinds of stories the same way I'd treat an alien abductio…

that very much depends on your philosophy. Many believe that there is no continuous "self" in the first place. it doesn't matter if the upload is a copy, if the "original" is const…

At the same time, pretending that brains don't obey the laws of computation has its own implications, which can confuse unprepared minds into thinking: 1) That brains are something…

Because calling it a computer means you can apply computer science concepts to it. That's the interesting part. You can talk about the classes of algorithms the brain uses to solve…

> Brain doesn’t perform computations in any CS accepted sense (neither it is a turing machine nor it has any encoded program to execute any defined algorithm). That's a big stateme…

So it sounds like we both agree the brain is at least a physical object that performs computations. I'm surprised you don't see similarities with other physical systems that perfor…

Read the comments on that link for a summary of my thoughts. > But neither the song nor the poem has been ‘stored’ in it. The brain has simply changed in an orderly way that now al…

Like I said, it depends very much on how you define computer. To me "processing information" == "computation". And a physical system that performs "computations" is a computer. The…

there are a lot of mysteries around the brain, but at a high level, I think you'd have a hard time finding a neuroscientist who doesn't believe the brain processes information. wha…

I'm not seeing the distinction. All computation "just is". computation happens through the physical world. adder circuits are performing a computation. an x86 CPU is nothing but a …