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I'm a rat. I've been trained to sit at a desk in front of a monitor and type. They feed me coffee to set my neural weights on positive feedback. Really, does no one see the connection to AI, and how humans are nothing but feedback loops. It's all just scale.
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Disagree. I’d rather listen to information while doing something else. Most info isn’t so important that I should stop moving and sit down and read it.
> listen to information while doing something else Hard to find intellectual material that does not require full concentration. Even those few pieces that seem to be highly digestible - they typically do not speak to the intellect and/or do not get fully processed anyway, under condition of shared attention.
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"Planck constant" isn't the same as "Planck length". Please don't say the former when you mean the latter. In addition: no, the planck length is not at all likely to be a consequence of discretization for the purpose of simulation. It is a length scale implied by various other constants. Like, if you considered the "laws of physics except gravity is stronger", you would end up with a different value for the Planck le…
> Making things quantum-mechanical makes them harder to simulate, not easier. The universe apparently doesn’t think so. In fact there’s an argument that, in some sense, what the universe does should be one of the easiest ways to do it, otherwise the existence of the universe would be much more unlikely.
Well, that's horrifying
It’s a funny one. At first: how horrifying to subject brain cells to the world of Doom! After more info: oh, they don’t perceive the horrific setting nor possess the context to know they are in a simulation. They just have inputs and outputs, comfort and discomfort. That’s not so bad. Upon deep reflection: oh God! We are just a scaled up version of this! Our perception of the world is just a tiny slice of reality fil…
Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods (or simulation) and raises rocks.
Other videos on his channel is also quite interesting
Interesting is understatement, it's a channel which is one of the closer ones to hard science on the hard science - pop science spectrum and still having more than a million subscribers. Some outstanding videos IMHO: The channel owner applies himself a gene therapy to fix his lactose intolerance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY How exactly the Covid Tests work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_usIkrVQwE…
Is he an infant? Otherwise, lactose intolerance isn't something to fix as it is the norm.
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From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.
Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…
...even in death I serve the Omnissiah.
Meaning: is it sufficient to grow an organoid and then connect it to the electrodes and go through the training process, or is there an advantage to growing the organoids _while_ connected to stimuli?
Naively, it seems like our brains are growing while receiving input and that could guide the growth process.
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Interesting is understatement, it's a channel which is one of the closer ones to hard science on the hard science - pop science spectrum and still having more than a million subscribers. Some outstanding videos IMHO: The channel owner applies himself a gene therapy to fix his lactose intolerance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY How exactly the Covid Tests work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_usIkrVQwE…
> The channel owner applies himself a gene therapy to fix his lactose intolerance. Is he an infant? Otherwise, lactose intolerance isn't something to fix as it is the norm.
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Thought Emporium, Nile Red, and Styropyro are YouTubers who are a few degrees away from being dangerous criminals (I say this in the lightest way possible) but channel their talents for educational videos.
Are you serious or trying to make a joke? I don't get it. Generally nice people, maybe slightly narcissistic, like any youtuber, maybe irresponsible. These people are nowhere near being "dangerous criminals", that's just slander.
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Thought Emporium, Nile Red, and Styropyro are YouTubers who are a few degrees away from being dangerous criminals (I say this in the lightest way possible) but channel their talents for educational videos.
How so
Nile Red is also really good at chemistry and seems to have no qualms doing questionable stuff. Think 'Things I Won't Work With', and then he works with it, a lot. Thank God he's not too into amines ... yet. The algorithm is going to push him ever more towards the boom-boom side of chemistry and he can only resist so long.
Speaking in prosecutor-terms, these guys more than have the means and opportunity, they need only the motive and the case is a slam dunk. The lines they walk are quite fine.
All that said, I love these guys and have for years. I'll continue to watch and support them as long as they can continue to upload, which is never a sure thing in their cases