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I suppose the problem in multiplayer is that everyone has the same wall clock time, so you couldn't easily have consistent time dilation and related effects such as the twin parado…

Arb Research and Renaissance Philanthropy made an excellent list this year! https://frontier.renaissancephilanthropy.org/

Except that as far as I understand, one of the inspirations for the Turing machine is to explain precisely the computations a human computer could perform with (potentially a lot o…

Note that the $15.99 is for the 64 GB version. The 1 TB version sells for above $100.

Or a person could have the program either critique their flashcards as they write them, or suggest new sorts of flashcards to create without doing the work for them by automaticall…

I think one should be somewhat skeptical of the claim that schizophrenia is completely absent in blind people; it might merely be more difficult to diagnose. Combined with the popu…

It seems like it stems from a 2019 philosophy article written by Perry Zurn, titled "Busybody, Hunter, Dancer: Three Historical Modes of Curiosity." Zurn does write "At their most …

The human brain, the authors argue, in fact uses multiple networks when interpreting and producing language. These include: - the language network, which delivers formal linguistic…

Yes. This was a big part of the GPT-4o demos. But likely they've specifically fine-tune it not to show negative emotions in a serious fashion.

I don't think neural correlates of consciousness have been identified, so clearly there remains research to be done. I'm not in touch with the neuroscience literature, but acknowle…

I am hopeful that advances in brain-computer interfaces will start to provide a partial answer to the question of "what's there" and why it's there. It seems to me the ability to c…

The invited speaker was Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan, whom, according to Wikipedia, has "a history of anti-LGBT activism" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Duncan_(judge)#Oppos…

This mostly just left me with a greater appreciation for the seamlessness of the original rabbit-duck illusion.

The physical act of comparing two objects or testing one object against another would typically involve some physical contact or proximity, so even in the case of testing some code…

There are browser add-ons that can do this (for example, uBlacklist).

Those two titles are good examples of when click-bait is stretched to the point of complete inaccuracy.

A simple example of a function with a singularity is f(t)=1/t. Note that at t=0, f(t) is undefined due to division by zero. On either side of zero, the absolute value of f(t) appro…

What's your metric for the "percentage the code is wrong"? Is it how many lines of code were wrong, or how many test cases the code fails? Presumably if AI-generated code passes ev…

I log in mostly for the custom CSS.